The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
THE STRIKE AT OTHER POINTS,

From the dispatches of the 22d of July we
CLEAN the following: At Cumberland, Nd, the
Baltimore and Ohio road was still blockaded,
the strikers having everything their own way.
Freight cars were broken open by the mob, and
a large quantity OF provisions and other things
were carried away. Women and children, with
bags and baskets, assisted in the depredations.
The authorities were unable to guard the prop
erty. At Baltimore there were several collisions
| between the police and the rioters, resulting in
a few broken heads. The Governor of Mary
land called on the President for military assist
ance, and the latter issued the customary proc
lamatlon commanding : al persons engaged in
or connected with said domestic violence and
obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire
peaceably to their respective ahOdes." Nearly
all the troops and marines at Fortress Monroe
and Norfolk were ordered to proceed at once to
Baltimore and Gen. W. s. Hancock was di-
rected to go from New York and assume COM
mand of the forces. I-.s-- 50
The strike on the Erie was spreading, and
serious trouble was anticipated at Buffalo and
other places. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne
and Chicago train men inaugurated strike at
| Fort Wayne, and resolutely declared that they
would allow no trains to move from that point.
At Vincennes freight trains were stopped on
! the Ohio and Mississippi road, and general
strike was thought to be imminent all along
the line. At Indianapolis hand-bils were
posted, calling public meetingof all in favor
of crushing the railroad monopoly.
The strikers began operations at Reading,
Pa. They tore up the tracks, burned the Leb-
anon Valley bridge and a number of freight
cars AT Buffalo and other points in New York
the firemen and brakem6n on the Lake Shore road
STRUCK, and all freight traffic was stopped. The
Governor Of New York issued proclamation
warning strikers against acts OF violence, and
calling upon all good citizens to aid III suppress
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militia We're called out and dispatched to Buff
falo, HornellsvilIe, and other threatened points
Incendiary strikers burned train of thirty-iye
OIL cars near Baltimore. - 31iia
The dispatches Oh the morning of the Path
give the following in regard to the great rail-
way war The strike had extended to ST., Louis,
involving the freight trains of the Ohio and
Mississippi, the Vandalia. the Chicago and Alton
aud other lines centerlng at East st. Louis.
The Union Pacific was saved from threatened
strike by reconsideration Of the order reduc--
ing wages. At Baltimore everything was
quiet and no more trouble anticipated
2,0G0 soldiers were under arms, and 1000
policemen were patrolling the streets. There
was some disorder at Philadelphia the strikers
burned an oil train on the Pennsylvania road,
near South street bridge. A party of strikers
stopped a train containing a body of militia
near Buffalo. entered the cars and succeeded
in forcing from some of the soldiers their
mrskets, when general fight ensued. One Of
the gstrikerswas killed, and several wounded
on both sides, including the Commander
of the militia. The soldiers finally aban-
doned their arms to the mob & and
fed. second collision occurred between
about 1000 strikers and 200 soldiers who were
guarding the Lake Shore round-house. The
militia were forced to abandon the building
and beat hasty retreat amid q pelting shower
of stones. The brakemen and firemen on the
Northern Central railroad of New York, and on
the Susquehanna division Of the Erie road, had |