The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-27
Trouble Anticipated wi tn the Miners in
Peoria,

CHICAGO, July 27.-On the Chicago
Rock Island L Pacific business is resumed,
on every branch and in every department
All trains on time. On the @. u n. w.
although all disturbance has subsided, are
only running on some branches The
Chicago, Alton Il St. Louis still remains
quiet and will not move any rolling stock
until it is absolutely safe. The Fort
Wayne road will start a passenger train
some time to-day, but freight is stagnant
with them. The Baltimore & Ohio is
sending out no freight as yet Mails have
gone out on all the roads except on the
Chicago x Alton and the Fort Wayne.
The latter refuse to carry mails
without troops. At 1.30 a special
from the scene says, crowd Assem-
bled at the corner of Halsted and Archer
avenue. was charged out aud dispersed
an hour ago by squad of police. No
serious trouble is apprehended. The
rioters are evidently demoralized for the
time being. Five companies of U. S,
troops from Rock Island, numbering three
hundred men, are en- route here. and will
arrive this F. NJ, They are supplied with
ammunition and Gating gun.
CHICAGO, July 27.-A careful review of
yesterday work between the mob and the
united forces of the police. mounted cav
airy, shows the following list of reported
casualties. They are but part Of the
number who have suffered from pistol shot,
sabre and club, but the rioters method
of hurrying off the dead and wounded pre-
vents the completion of the list at present
The rioters killed Thomas Casselman, q
baker of 18th street, shot through the
head. Thomas or Joseph Coaley, lS3
west 10th street; Charles or Henry Wilder
Is years, corner Stewart avenue and Nc
Gregor street; Edward Peters or Phillips
SO Fisk street, aged II; Michael Hassett
l9 years, corner McGregor and Wallace
streets; Mccormick, rolling mill hand
A, Widney, j. Wallace. age Is, shot il
the brain; John Weinert, aged 10, soutl
Canada street; man, name unknown, 5;
Archer avenue; a man, name unknown
lying at MorgeD, W. Nowathalsky
67 Fisk street, a blacksmith, g
years. Thomas Coley, 1873 West I6tl
street; Geo. Fisher, German, boater
corner 26th and Stewart streets. Missin
and supposed to be killed, Frank Norback
leader of the rioters, baker by trade,
Bohemian who has headed commun
movements for years. Rioters fatal
wounded, A Weary, shot in left lung
james McNally, stock yard hand,
shoulder; David Fitzgerald, Ashlan
avenue near Archer avenue, rolling mi
hand, below the right shoulder blade
the back, ball came out at the left nipple
taking nipple with it, he is reported
have died during the night.
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The rioters seriously wounded Fran
Newhall, hardware merchant, Halstea
street, near Viaduct, boy, name unknown
through the leg; Joseph Lindsay, in ii
thigh; Martin Boster, in the hand, age
II; Nick Shelling we'll known communis
in the arm; Harry Collins. Locke St.
the thigh, amputation will probably
necessary; John McAuley, lives on we
side, in the groin, is suffering much pail
Peter Brady, corner Jefferson and d
koYer, in the arm, bone fractured; Chr
KuhllDan, SIS West 18th St, in the XII
neys; NJ. 9. Cartney, boy, clubbed hea
lily; H. Hebner, 1876 Nineteenth ST., sh
in the side; Albert Wedner, Bohemia
l42 Nineteenth St., in left breast, intern
hemorrhage feared; james Plunkett, /
Sixteenth St., fell on curbstone. Poll
officers wounded: Geo. Samonsky sh
in ankle, fought long after he was she
HltE 1aylOTi SuOC III tue Call Vi the le
Pat Hanley,in hand; Louis Decker, ,throu
the hand; Pat O'Hara, in arm: Ke
Stone, wounded in the hand; Lieut.. Cs
barry, cut with stone on the head; W.
King, patrolman. was shot in the leg
verely, and his horses chest was riddle
spectator, name unknown, was bat
hurt on the head with stone.
This list indicates that the police rece
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number than the crowd. Such, howev
is not the case,. as scores of the wouI
were inflicted by them and by their frieI
which were not even seen, much less
ported. The fact that man was act
in reportorial capacity initiated agai
him with the mob, aud any inquiry dire
ed to any of the rioters as to name or
cumstances of the killing or wounding
asignal for suspicion of the inquirer |