The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-07-26

the police and military succeeding in Iis.
persing the mob IN both cases without
serious results.
In compliance with the call of Governor
Carroll upon the President fort roops, those
at Fort McHenry have been placed at his
disposal and with their aid and that of
the local military, the reign of order has
been in measure reestablished. The
President has also issued his proclama-
tion warning all persons engaged in vio-
lence and obstruction of the laws to dis
perse on or before noon of the 22nd, and
in view of tbe per1lcus nature of the stu
alton, Gen. Winfield s. Hancock has been
ordered to Baltimore to assume command
Of the troops there. Martial law is threat
ened and the saloons have been closed.
At Cumberland and Westward to Graf
ton the strikers are in supreme control,
the mob at former place, having broken
open large number of freight cars and
carried off provisions and other things.
At Newark strike continues and troops,
ordered there by Gov. Young, fraternize
with strikers. The county commissioners
there having refused to vote money to
buy food for the military, the strikers
came forward and offered to furnish the
same without cost. It is further reported
that the citizens of Newark have guaran-
teed to furnish the strikers the necessary
provisions to sustain life.
At Pittsburg' during the morning of the
21st, the situation remained unchanged
but during the afternoon, upon the arrival
of 1900 Philadelphia militia under COM
m a md nf Non Prorfor foo ,&fnp1 oo11soS@,>
ensued. Shortly after o'clock Sheriff
Fife with large posse Of deputies and
accompanied by the Philadelphia militia,
started for the outer depot of the Pennsyl-
vania road to arrest some fifteen of the
leaders OF the strikers for whom he had
warrants. Upon the arrival of the mill
tary, the railroad tracks were found to be
completely blockaded by the mob who
began showering stones and missiles up
on the soldiers when the latter fired in
discriminatory into the immense mass of
human beings. Twenty persons were
killed outright and 20 wounded. Among
the killed was Sheriff Fife, and among
the badly wounded was General Brenton
commanding the militia.
Upon the firing the mob rctreated,
but only to return, and by o'clock the
city was virtually in the hands of the
strikers and laborers, iron workers, coal
miners and others in sympathy with the
movement. The mob, it subsequently
appeared, had visited and gutted several
gun factories, and thus arming them
selves, marched to the number of 5000,
through the streets with flags and ban
ners, to the scene of the riot where they
besieged the Philadelphia militia in the
round house. The soldiery would leave
the city but cannot do so on account of
the mob. Three soldiers who attempted
singly to leave the round house were fired
upon and killed and general massacre
is feared. The Allegheny arsenal is re-
ported in the hands OF the rioters. Pas
senger travel on the railroad is complete
ly suspended. The mob is hourly in
creasing, and the eastern end of the city
is wholly at their mercy. The railroad
track for quarter of mile west of the
depot is sheet Of flame.
Burning cars are being pushed to the
round house to destroy that extensive
building. The Seventh Division Of State
Militia from Meadville, Titusville and
other places, are hourly expected and a
large force of armed men with a section
of artillery are waiting for them. When
the troops arrive there will in all prob
obility be terrible bloodshcd. Such is
the situation as indicated in the latest
dispatch. The situation elsewhere is in
dicated as follows: In Chicago, great
excitement, but no outbreak anticipated !;
in Fort Wayne, grest excitement and
strike imminent; in Indianapolis, out
break imminent atany moment, and meet
ings of railroad employees called for 23d !;
in Vincennes, fifty brakemen struck on
the 21st; Cincinnati and St. Louis, antici-
pated strike on the 23d, Of employees of
the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad: in
Omaha, meeting Of delegation of
engineers of Union Pacific to consider the
situation; in Buffalo, situation unchanged ;
in Louisville, intense interest and COM
mittees appointed to wait on railroad Of
ficials to ascertain their intentions rela-
tive to the reduction of wages, and in St.
Louis, large meeting of employees of all
the roads centering there, which appoint
ed committees to draft resolutions to be
acted upon on the evening of the 23rd.
In b WOEU 1uo1catlOnS arc very 9trO0g OF
a general strike in st. Louis.
Later dispatches furnish continuation
of the terrible scenes which were enacted
in Pittsburg on the night of the 21st and
the next day. Finding it difficult to dis
lodge the military from the round house,
the mob resolved to burn the building,
and at latest accounts on Saturday night
were engaged in pushing burning cars
toward the structure. As consequence
Of the blockade the depot yards and tine
tracks for some three or four miles were
filled with cars loaded with grain, mer-
chandise, oil cake and coal. The torch
was applied to the oil cars and in a few
moments the whole mass was in flames
An alarm was sounded to which the fire
department responded, but the mob re-
fused to allow them to do anything, de-
claring that they were determined to de-
stroy railroad property but would not in
jure that of private citizens
Finding that the heat did not on ac-
count Of the distance seriously affect the
round house, the rioters seized coke car,