Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-07-27
At midnight the city was comparatively
PHILApTLpHIA. July 2

PHILADELPHIA, July ~.
A strike was inauguratcd at the Penn
sylvania Railroad depot to-day by the men
abandoning their places. At Columbus,
Harrisburg, Altoona and vari, us other
places on the line the round-houses were
closed and no engines allowed to leave.
PHILADELPHIA, July %.
Gov. Hartranft is en- route for Pennsylvania
from Colorado and has telegraphed ahead
ordering out every militia company in the
State. He has also telegraphed the Presi-
dent of the United States calling for troops
and suggesting the propriety OF call for
volunteers.
PITTSBURGH, July %.
No further acts Of violence have been com
mitted. Five or six hundred men have en-
listed in the citizens corps and many others
will join. The regular State militia are en-
duty in full numbers. All the troops are
under the command of Gen. Negley. The
Mayor has issued orders to close all saloons.
This afternoon the strikers at Twenty eighth
street surrendered their arms, including
three pieces Of artillery. AS the latter were
being drawn to the city by hand two of the
pieces were spiked by the rioters. The mill
tary patrol. sic streets tonight. The Penn
syfvania Railroad officials say there is no
possible hope OF a compromise. and declare
that such shall not take place though not q
wheel should turn on their entire road.
HARRIsBURG, July %.
The Pennsylvania Railroad strikers depre-
cate violence. They ask the dismissal of
Frank Thompson, General Manager, and ap'
pointed conn mittee to inform Superintend-
ent McCrea that they were willing to COM
promise on honorable terms, and would use
every effort to protect the companv's prop
erty. The mob tonight broke into a gun
store and seized a quantity of firearms.
PHILADELPHIA, July %. !.
The strikers this morning set fire to an oil
train in West Philadelphia and four cars
were destroyed. Four hundred regular SOL
diers, under command of Gen. Hancock, ar
rived here from Baltimore at noon, fully
armed and equipped.
The Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern.
CLEVELAND, July p.
The strike on this road was inaugurated at
Collinwood this afternoon. Several stock
trains were stopped and the engineers ordered
to run their locomotives into the houses which
order was obeyed. No efforts will be made
at present, the officers of the company say,
to run freight trains.
TOLEDO, July 80.
A delegation of strikers waited upon the
engineers and firemen cf the Lake Shore "
Michigan Southern Railway, at the Air Line
junction near this city and ordered them to
run their engines into the round-house,
which order was complied with. All West
bound freight trains have been abandoned,
and orders have been issued to the station
agents to receive no stock or freight of any
description for any point. This action puts
an end for the present to all freight traffic on
the Main Line and Air Line routes, between
this city and Elkhart, Ind, aud also on the
Detroit Division of the Lake Shore Road.
BUFFALO, July %.
This afternoon an assault was made by
nearly 1000 rioters on about 200 soldiers
who were guarding the Lake Shore round
house. The military were obliged to leave
the building, which was barri AIDED by the
mob, who pushed cars in position as de-
fense against attack. Col. Flack, of the
SiXty-fifth Regiment, with about thirty men
and three officers, proceeded to the round
house to retake 1t from the mob. They were
met with yells of derision from the crowd
and under a shower of stones Obliged to re-
treai AZ double quick, and force their way
the hands with knives, and also dubbed.
Four soldiers lost their muskets, which were,
however, afJcrward recovered. Col Flack
was badly clubbed, twice knocked down,
forced across the canal and obliged to take
refuge in the Lake Shore paint shop. About
midnight the mob fired the paint shop and
a number Of cars. The Westheld company
of militia were driven from their quarters
after wounding a number of the rioters.
Some of the company were shot by the mob,
who had gained possession of the Westfeld
company's rifles.
ERIE, July %.
All freight trains on the Lake Shore IL
Michigan Southern, the Philadelphia II Erie
and Erie d Pittsburgh, together with all pas
senger trains, except those carrying the
United States mail, have been stopped at this
point.
New YORK July D.
President Vanderbilt issued orders this aft
ernoon that all passenger and freight trains
on the Lake Shore Il Michigan Southern
Railroad be abandoned until further notice.
CLEVELAND, July %.
This morning all the employees in the Lake
Shore machine shops quit work with one ex-
ception. The non-striker's wife went to the
shops, took her husband by the arm and
marched him off.
The Lebanon Valley Railroad.
| RRADING Pa ,July a.