The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-07-28
The Ri0ters PIllage. Plumber
and Apply the T0reh-Three
Miles or Tapping Flames.
Union Depot, Machine Shops,
Offices and Hundreds of
Cars Destroyed.
The Siege OF Terror is Raised BY the
city Iigiiants, Assisted by the
strikers, Who Ben0ssce the
Piliagiag Mob.
The Strike is Extending and Already To-
ciudes the Principal Railroad Centres
East aad West.

"O Sb'Ao 10 IAtc"osH8 dho SiFcAoy tu- |
ciudes the Principal Railroad Centres
East add West.
and Kansas Cfsy Feyerish and
the Aspect ST Affairs sesisas--An
Quiet Along tbe PSsesnse. tn Paiia-
deBphia, Baitimsre and Banais.
1.-THE strike originated on the Balti
more and Ohio railroad. The cause
Of the strike was an order reducing
the wages OF ST. employees of the COM
pany, receiving over one dollar per
day, ten per cent, went into effect
July 10. This ORDER seems to have
touched more particularly the flremen
OF the freight trains. First class fire.
men received 81 70 per day, and sec
ond class 81 so per day. The proposed
reduction would make the wages of
the first class Sl.5S, and OF the second
class 81 So. The fremen refused to
submit to the reduction, while the
engineerr, conductors and other em.
pioyes accepted the terms There.
upon the firemen of freight trains,
numbering five OF six hundred, struck.
From this road the strike extended TO
others, aud now includes nearly every
trunk line in the country.
Ga Saturday last, the militia OF
Baltimore, we've ordered Ly Governor
Carroll 10 report to the authorities at
Cumberland, where the strikers were
massfbg aud violence threatened.
While the soldiers were gathering at
their armories, the friends OF the
strikers attacked the militia, killing
and wounding twenty five of their
number. The Fifth Mary land, how
ever. made its fearless but fearful
march To Camden station, without FIR
ing gun. The endurance and patti
ence Of the regiment has been gazetted.
As soon ~ they entered the
depot, detail was made To
guard the building and the bal
ance proceeded by train to Cum
bertrand, where the rioters, largely in
creased ny the mining element, were
fifteen hundred strong. They were dis
persed without firing gun and the
railroad officials placed In possession
of the roat.
The strikers at Pittsburg on the same
day were more formidable aud the
PennsylvaniA militia less forbearinR
than the Fifth Maryland. A dreadful
riot was the consequence.
4:3O p. NAT twenty minutes to I
O'Clock the Philadelphia troops left
the union depot for the scene of dis
turbanee, Twenty eighth street cross
ing, marching out along the track and
proceeded by the sheriff aud his posse
Expecting to fail In an effort to dis.
perse the strikers, the sheriff would
sfx.a ~, n
upon the military for the required AS
sistance. This was understood to be
the plan OF action determined upon,
and conflict WAS expected.
They arrived at Twenty eight street
shortly before O'Clock. The railroad
tracks to that place being com pletely
blocksded with strikers, the Black
Hnssars, OF Philadelphia, were ordered
to clear the railroad crossing, but not
being able to do so, another company
was ordered to their assistance.
The military advanced with fixed
bayonets, but were met with q show
er of stones and missels from the
crowd. They opened fire on the crowd
Indiscriminsteiy in rapid succession.
The crowd retreated towards the east.
There we're = large number killed and
wounded. The terrific result of the
volley has caused intense excitement
throughout the city, and 1t il feared
another attack will be made on the
military as soon rs the mob can be re-
organized and provided with ammuni-
ton. Ed
PITTsBgRG, July 23.-The crisis of
the railway strike In this city, ss in
Dictated in these dispatches SATURDAY.
night, was reached yesterday after.
noon about i've o'clock, when the
Philadelphia troops, who had been
sent here TO suppress the strikers, fred
on the crowd. The terrible and fatal
effects of the shots fired, exaggerated
the citizens a. well ~ the strikers, and
In less than an hour the band Of work.
Ing men from the rolling mills, coal
mines and various manufacturing e.
tAblishments, were determised 20
nave revenge on the troops and rail.
road ofiicialA 1t was stated that Cen
eral Piefson, commandef Of the sixth
divisl0n Of the state guards, had di.
rected the troops to fire before any re-
sisfenee had been made, and the fnct
that many u the killed and wounded
had gathered on the hill side merely
- spectators, served to increase the
bitterness Of the crowd.
By eight o'clock in the evening.
nohs were moving about the city in
various directions, soaking stores Ia
secure arms, breaking into the afmo
ries of the military oompante, and
preparing themsel 60 To execute the
threats freely expressed of massscre
ing the entire Philadelphia com mapd.
ny this time the military had with.
drawn from the railroad crossipx n
Tsenty-eighth street, where the hrui
conflict took place, and were imms-
diateiy ordered to one of the round
houses, where they could find bettes
protecsion.
About 10 o'clock In the evening q
mob, Numbering several thousand. hsd
cougregAted about the round house
They previously captured The Runs b.
longing 70 autchinsou's battery, q To-
cal orRnntxation, and planted them @
~ to command the round house, Sew.
eral solid shots were fred ct the build.
Ing, and beeech made In the walls,
but when the Infatuated mob attempt
ed to rush in the tuildiLg, the military
were ordered TO ire The voilsy Of
musketry that followed, and the rumos
that the Gatlip guns Of the command
we're beinG brought to bear, caused Z
panic, and the mob fled precipitately
for several squares, the military mean
while keeping up the fusilade. The
rtoeefns however, w0fe e0oo treasured,
and - Thousands were flocking to thsii
Aesistance, returned to tbs attack,
Finding Is difncult 70 dIalodes the NIL,
ftAry tfom the buildinga, hey deter.
mined 70 barn them out. An ordss