Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
through the spinal column, and four
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ster, was shot through the thigh and
dangerously wounded, while on hi.
way home.
4 The widest rumors arc afioat in
regard to the number killed. One is
that a number of women were killed
and borne of.
The depot at Camden is on fire, ani.
it is said that the railroad Office has
been cleaned out. The telegraph Of
flee has been destroyed, the wires cut
and the instruments removed.
The movements of the 5th regiment
were as follows: The 9TH regiment
with LOO muskets, under command OF
Capt. Hallinger, left their armory
over Richmond Street market about
Z p. m. They marched down Otta-
wa street, but nothing unusual oc-
Cured until Lombard street was
reached, when the crowd which lined
the streets began stoning them. This
continued until the regiment got in
front of Camden Station, when they
turned on the crowd, chrrged bayo-
nets and dispersed it,. The following
were disabled from duty: Capt. Her.
bert, Lieutenants Rogers, Spcare and
Sadlcr; Sergeants Wanderly and
Armstrong; and privates Mckenzie
and Hayward. None Of the above
named, however, arc dangerously
wounded. Many others received
slight wounds. Nearly every mem-
Der of the company to the end of the
line was struck by the stones. Upon
the arrival of the Sixth at the depot
private Robinson was taken to the
hospital car, suffering from bad gun
shot wound in the hand. Not shot
was fired at the depot either by the
mob or the 9Th regiment, the latter
having received orders not to load
their muskets at the depot. The
greatest excitement prevails, and for
square around thousands of excited
people are gathered. During the fire,
which nearly consumed the lower
end of the depot, the flremen were
greatly retarded by the mob, and po-
licemen had to be stationed at each
engine with instructions to shoot any
one who attempted to interfere with
firemen in the discharge of their du-
ties. The crowds were kept at bay
by the military and police. 1t is said
that the track along Ohio Avenue has
been torn up and blockaded with
carts, drays, ETC., in several places.
At midnight the 5th regimet and the
three companies of the 9th were still
at Camden station, and Colonel Peters
with one hundred men of the Sixth
and their armory are all under arms.
At this hour-l 80 a. m, Baltimore
street is comparatively quiet and also
the streets in the vicinity of the Sixth
Armory. Wallace, of Campany BS
Of the Sixth, was badly wounded,
and also Private Young, who was Ia
ken to the hospital at 10 o'clock. A
house at the lower end of the depot
at Camden Station was fired and to-
tally burned. The depot was badly
burned as far up as Barre street. A
lamp and oil house, corner of Barre
and Howard streets was DESTROYED
about 1880. An old building, for
merly used as a stable, corner of
Montgomery and Howard streets was
fired and destroyed about Ii o'clock.
Some cars at the Riverside round
house were burned.
At this hour l AS a. M, it is ascer-
tained positively that ten men were
killed.
After the Fifth Regiment had been
ordered out this afternoon by Gov.
Carroll, orders were also issued for
the Sixth Regiment, in command of
Col. Clarence Peters, at the assem-
bling of which an assault was made
on the regiment, and firing which re-
suited SO fatally and so terribly. Ho
gives the following account:
A few minutes before 5 o'clock Col.
Peters received orders from Gen.
Herbert to assemble his regiment at
Front streets without delay. Half
past six or seven o'clock the bell at
the City Hall struck 15, known as
the military call to assemble a regi-
ment out of the armory. Company
l. in front, followed Co. F as they
marched down the stairway of the
armory in the street in clumps of
twos, with Capt. Sapper at the head
| Of his command. The foremost men
on reaching the sidewalk were assail.
| ed by a shower of stones and bricks
thrown by an excited crowd in front
of the armory building, fronting on
Fayette street. On the south side of
the building the street was filed for
several squares with an excited null
titude of people. At the first volley
of stones and brick-bats VIM. Lenox,
Lewis Bolts, Z. w. Morlock, and VIM.
Young, privates, were fe,led to the
ground in senseless condition, and
were borne back into the armory
amid a shower ofstoncs. Companies
l and + filed into Front. street and
headed south towards Baltimore
street the assault of the crowd grow
ing fiercer, and Company b not yet
being out of the armony, the former
were halted to await the latter. Col.
Peters and Major George at this time
went to the head of the column en-
deavoring to quell the riot and re-
store order. The stones continuing
to fall thick and fast, the men without
orders fired into the crowd, most of
the guns being elevated above their
heads. BY this volley one man was
killed and several wounded. Peters
gave orders to cease firing, which was
obeyed. An order was given to
march, and Company and r pro-
ceeded along Front street to Baltimore
into which they wheeled to the right.
AS they marched along Baltimore
street westward by Frederick, Gay,
Halliday, South and Culvert, the
stoning was kept up unabatcd by the
crowd which increaeed in numbers.
A number of pistol shots were fired
at the men. Firing by the companies
was recommended. with stray shots,
and continued at intervals until they
reached Coleman and Rogers drug
store on Baltimore street. near the
head of Light street, and opposite the
Baltimore street entrance of the Car
rolton Hotel. Along this line (Balti-
more streeD from the Maryland In
stitute building to Coleman a. Rogers
drug store, nearly all the dead were
shot, the men firing in self defense
Companies and + then continued
their marchts
NO EXCITEMENT.
PoRT JARVIS, July 2O.-The strike
on the Erie Railroad occasions but
little excitement. The Eastern Di
vision will not strike. The officials
here are confident that no trouble
will occur. Local trains are running
ON time.
MEETING HELD.
NEW YORK, July 20.-Late las
evening meeting of 1iremen ant
brakemen was held in Hornellsville
at the close of which message wa
sent by its chairman to the Supcrin
tendent of the Erie in New York, no
tifying him that the men on the Yves
Susquehanna and Buffalo divisio,
had resolved to quit work at on,
o'clock this morning. The Superin
tendent proceeded at once to Hor
nellsville. Arriving there this morn
ing he found that the strikers hat
: quit work and had taken measures I,
prevent any trains, passenger OF
. freight, from leaving or passin:
/ through Hornellsville east or Yves
t simultaneously. The brakemen ant
5 switchmen at Salamanca, on tn,
western division, quit work-ant
when Mr.. Biggs, the superintendent
who had started out from Dunkirl
for Hornellsville with special train
. arrival Mt Salamanca hic on uinn Nya