Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-27
Che Daily 4'rtss and 1akotaian
Friday Evening. July 27, 1877.
STRIKES.


!. FROM the Baltimore Gazette
''4T.he present riot on the Baltimore and
Ohio recalls other scenes of a similar char.
acter on tits, road. The first difficulty oc-
Cured on the 25sa. and 30th of June, 1881.
A contractor on tiiee.,!hird division about
twenty five miles from Baltimore, abscon-
ded, leaving his laborers unpaid. The
laborers took the law into their own hands.
and commenced to destroy the rails, sills,
and whatever else they could. The sheriff
OF the county and posse were resisted by the
men, who numbered between two hundred
and three hundred laborers. The military
from Baltimore were called cut, and on the
morning OF the 3lst they arrested a number
OF the rioters, the Others making their es-
cape. About sixty in all were arrested, but
nearly all were discharged by Judge Han
son on the next day.
On Nov. ~ 1884, Mr.. German, one of the
contractors on the Washington branch, about
eighteen miles FROM the city, was assailed in
his own shanty, and with John Watson. a
superintendent was dragged out and beaten.
About midnight on the 18th they surrounded
the office where Mr.. Watson was lying SUI.
fering from his wounds, and after breaking
open the door deliberately murdered him in
a most barbarous manner. William Messer,
one OF his assistants, was dragged out of the
office and shot dead, and another of the SUI
perintendents, Mr.. Callan, was killed.
Several others were injured. After the
murders the premises were robbed. On
the 25th a detachment of the first brigade of
this city arrested nearly three hundred
laborers, who were brought to this city and
lodged in jail.
The strike of the greatest proportions oc-
CURED on the road in 1857. On April %.
the conductors and others having charge of
the burden trains over the first and second
divisions of the road, stopped work and re-
fused to do duty. The men endeavored by
force to secure their purpose. During the
week the woods from Baltimore to the Relay
house were ~interspersed with bonfires, around
which they sat in anticipation of the APP
proach of the freight trains, but none were
sent out without an accompaniment of an
armed guard, The crisis took place about
1 o'clock on the afternoon of the LIST of Nav.
AT that hour Sheriff Pole, of Baltimore
county, with a posse Of officers, appeared at
the Camden station and placed them in an
old passenger ear, which, being attached to
one Oh the tonnage trains, wasstarted for the
main stem near Gwynn's Falls. Here sew
eral trains from Mount Clare depot were
drawn up and proceeded along Immediately
after the pioneer train. They met with no
resistance until the deep cut at Jackson's
bridge. Here a man was seen ahead of the
engine waving his hat for the engineer to
stop, but no heed was paid him, the train
continued on, and the man who endeavored
tc stop it jumped from the track barely in
time to save himself from being caught be
meath the cowcatcher. An onslaught on the
train followed. Pistols, short rifles then in
vogue in this vicinity, and missiles of differ
ent kinds were discharged and hurled at the
engineer and sheriff's posse, while they in
turn fired some thirty muskets at the rioters,
several of whom were badly wounded.
Upon passing under the bridge rocks were
hurled down upon the cars, crushing them
in several places. The train passed on, but
the three that followed were not so sue
sessful. They were surrounded by the
rioters at the bridge, who jumped upon
them, put down the brakes. uncoupled the
cars and threw the coupling pins away.
They We're not further interrered with. and
returned to Mount Glare. The proceedings
of Friday, May l, were continued on Satur-
day and Sunday along the line of the road
from the city to Elicott's Mills. Gov.
Lyon had a conference with the officers of
the road, and issued a proclamation warn
ing all persons TO keep away from the neigh
borhood of these disturbances At 4 o'clock
Saturday afternoon, by authority of the gov
ernor, the Baltimore City guards, Capt.
Warner, and the Independent guards, com
manded by Capt. Brush, were called out.
They were placed, together with a number
OF the sheritf's posse, in passenger cars in
advance OF three burdened trains. To the
extreme end of the train was the paymaster
car and a small trunk car denominated
"Sebastopol." Thus prepared, Thu entire
trains moved off together underline command
of Col. Shut and Capt. Rawlings. No
difficulty was met with until reaching the
deep cut at Jackson's bridge. Here, as on
the previous day, rocks were hurled at the
cars and revolyers fired at their
In passing the bridge rocks were hurled up
on the cars beneath the bridge, but did no
injury: Shots were fired by the military on
the engines and by the sherifi's posse at their
assallants, but none of the rioters were in
jured. After proceeding about a nile fur
Their the train, in passing through another
deep cut, was again the recipient of a sharp
fire. The military fired. One man named
Henry Hoyser, was killed and servant
wounded. Howser was formerly engaged as
fireman on the road, and lived near Mount
Si"hN' SoSiihiS bSS SLdtlOl tlC Train
was brought to a stand-stin from the fact of
the engine and tender of an eastbound bur
den and stock train having been thrown from
the track by a heavy stone placed thereon.
The track was cleared and the train proceed
ed on to Ellicott City. 1t left the mills at
10 o'clock and returned as far as the coun.
try-seat of Carroll Spence, about two miles
from the city, where some one had spiked
the track and the engine ran off, with fonr
or five burden cars, and several of the mill
tary on the engine were slightly hurt. The
military returned to the city on foot, and
reached Mount Glare at 2 a. m. Sunday. No
disposition was manifested to interfere with
any of the trains thereafter, and the difficult
ty was amicably settled.
Another riot occurred at Mount Glare
depot on May 26, 1862. An attack was made
on the buildings at Mount Glare depot by a
large party OF disorderly persons calling
themselves union men, who beat and wound
ed seven unoflending workmen, whom they
accused of being se~cessionists. On the 9th
they renewed their attack and wounded wo
other workmen. The police took no notice
OF these outrages.