The New York herald., 1877-07-23
PENNSYLVANIA.
TERRIBLE scENRs AT PIrrsBURG-DArTLEs IN
THE sraExrs-onEAr DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY.

rBx rELzoRAPH TO THE HERALD
PIrTsBuno, Pa, July "a. 1877.
"Great God preserve me from another
such night as last nightr' said member OF
Company @, Of the First regiment of Phila-
delphia, to yous representative to-day.
The young man was o clerk in wholesale
tea house and had left at home o widowed
mother and number OF sisters depending
upon him for support. He had deserted the
regiment when it had arrived at the United
States Arsenal and secreted himself behind
great pile of boards until the mob had
left then came out and begged protection
from Major Bufinton. the commandant of
the arsenal He had thrown away his uni
form and appeared in citizens dress and
eagerly piled me with questions as to how
he could get into the city and what train
might he take which would carry him safest
and soonest home.
GOING INTO THE yIoHT.
II served in the war OF the rebellion.
said he, "and have seen wild fighting, and
heard oftentimes the melancholy music Of
whistling bullets, but the night Of terror
such as last night never experienced and
hope to God never will again. It was this
way. We came into Pittsburg, must con-
fess, bent on having little fight if any was
going on. We had little to eat, some sand
wiches and o tin cup Of coffee, and at noon
yesterday we had some sort of nourishment
dealt out to us at the Union depot When
we arrived at Pittsburg we were all in good
alacrity to the command to move out to
Twenty-eighth street, whore the strikers had
gathered In force. When we arrived
here, General Britton, commanding,
formed us front and rear on the
outside of q network Of track at this point
and stationed the Keystone battery, with its
Gatling guns, in q little fat plot on the
hillside, elevation perhaps ten feet above
the level Of the tracks. At this moment the
crowd began to scatter, not in retreat, but
apparently to make room for the military.
KISSES, YELLs AND aRoANs.
As we rested on our arms the silence Of the
great crowd was broken and storm of
h;..~r .,alI, ocd obaarc rraato5 TIC Thew
. platoon of our regiment was ordered to
clear the crowd from the head of Twenty
eighth street, which was blockading the
tracks Of the railroad. The Sheriff
and his deputies mingled with the troops
and endeavored to make himself heard,
urging the crowd to fall back and retire TO
their homes. He could not make himself
heard, owing to the confusion and the cries
and the yells Of the people The platooni
of soldiers pushed into the crowd, surgins
them back until the order ''haltw wa
given. At this time the hillside was liter
ally covered with men. women and children.
mostly spectators, I judged, who were in
manner penned up. All this time the cries
and yells of the crowd grew louder and
hercer and the military made preparations
TO form hollow square on platform OF
tracks, as near the Twenty-eighth street
crossing as possible, with two Gatling guns
in the centre. The Pittsburg troops and
the Fourteenth regiment, believe. were
drawn up in line. but remained passive.
THE CHARGE OF THE GnAYs
After some manpuvering, rendered diff
ficult by the jostling Of the crowd, three
sides of square we're formed by our two
reciments-First and Second--numbering
from four to Eve hundred men. One side
of the square faced the hill, ono faced to
the east and the troops on the other side
stood with their backs to Twenty-eighth
| street and also faced the hill. The crowd
was slow in clearing q space for the east
side of the square, and the soldiers be-
gan to force them back. This occasioned
some scufling, several of the men taking
hold of the muskets and saying, "You
would not shoot working men, would
you" while those on the outskirts con-
tinued to hoot and yell. About this mo-
ment the Gnys were ordered to charge on
the crowd which was impeding them. This
was done amid the most intense confusion
and exctemen but the troops pushed back
the throng and retired
| BAYoxxT CHARGE.
The First regiment, whom the crowd be.
gan again to press the men. was ordered to