The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-27
THE STRIKE
The Tidal Wave Receding
Strikers on Several Roads
Resume Work.
Blockade Raised on the
Erie,
Toledo and Wabash, Mich
igan Central,
Canadian Southern and
Other Roads.
Continued Excitement in
St. Louis.
A Terrible Communistic
Mob in Chicago.
Severe Battle with the
Police.
The Rioters Dispersed with
Grape and Canister.
Severe Battle with the
Police.
The Rioters Dispersed with
Grape and Canister.
Resolutions of the Work
ingmen's Party of the
United States.
neureda,ions ofthe Chicago Mob.

h1OD'
CHICAGO, July 26.-The mobs OF last
evening gathered in force on the South
Side this morning, and renewed It's Dep.
rotations and acts OF violence. They be
gan with some two thousand, and swelled
TO multitude before noon. They
showed savage brsvadO, and seemed
fearless OF death itself. However, when
some three hundred police, under Othcer
Rainly, charged on them, they broke up
After a hot encounter they reunited
again shortly and prepared for another
encounter at Sixteenth street and Hal
sted viaduct. An interchange OF shots,
stones and invective succeeded them.
The police being reinforced, broke
into the mob with terrific yell
that was heard for blocks away.
The reinforcements, consisting OF a new
squad of police and u company of armed
cavalry under Col. Agromont, began in
conjunction with the police, deadly
onslaught, the results OF which are i'm
perfectly known and are reported
variously. One report, which was prob
ably exaggerated, says tina! twelve were
killed ana hundred and fifty wounded,
and another says that three were
killed and fifty wounded. There
are certainly more than three killed, but
no names can be learned. This broke
I'D the mob for time, but they soon
gathered again. A gang of the mob ran
passenger train Otf the track at
Twentieth street this morning, and after
allowing the passengers 10 escape
smashed the windows and furniture OF
the several cars. The Second regiment,
the mounted police and the regular vet
ersn force of Chicago are on the scene OF
battle.
The Governor this morning applied
Tor United States troops.
The national lorcc in this city who ar.
rived to-day were placed at the disposal
of the Msvor. There are now two COM
panies of the Twenty-second infantry
and four more to arrive this afternoon at
two o'clock, and six companies OF the
Ninth infantry. Gen. Drum has ordered
them to stop of the cars at the scene OF
the riot, which they pass on coming IN.
right i'm Csicago.
CHICAGO July 26.-It is eported that
ut ten o'clock this morning The police
had fight with the mob on Newberry
avenue and that fifteen OF the rioters
were hurt.
A SQUAD of mounted veterans, with
drawn ssbres, charged the Sixteenth
street mob. One hundred and fifty riot
ers were wounded and ten killed out
right. Six policemen were wounded.
At ll:30 A. VI. two boys were killed 1t
the Hastead street visduct, and police
man was reported killed. The mob has
dispersed and all is quiet in this vicinity.
CHICAGO, July 26.-But four men are
reliably reported killed AS yet. The
entire force of United States troops eX
peeted are now here. They consist OF
SIX companies of the Ninth regiment of
infantry. Societies for protection have
been formed IN almost every ward TO day,
and preparations tor q lively campaign
tonight are complete. 1t is reported
that u gang from the stock yards are
coming into the city, declaring
that they will clean out every policeman
on Halstesd street. They are armed
with butcher knives, sticks, snd every
conceivable weapon.
5P. M.-At this hour the precise sItua-
tion rs learned by press dispatches and
by the report of a press reporter on the
ground is AS follows: The rioters have
been busy all day in the various parts of
the city, but chiefly between Canal and
Green streets, and between Twelfth and
Twenty-second street. The fight
ing ha: been carried on in these limits
resrly exclusively, and been continuous
and bloody, but not rs fatal rs might be
expected. The police hsve rarely been
the aggressors, but whenever they have
attempted to break up a mob, they
have in the long run succeeded.
The mob is insulting snd ready for
trouble At any moment, but has whole
sale fear of the regiments and mounted
police, and of the United States troops,
who are either on the ground or in close
pr oximity TO the trouble the entire time.
They have arms OF the most effective sort
snd wherever they appear the mob scat
tiers. The police do not command so
great respect, because the impression pre-
walls that they will generally fire too
high to hit or shoot blank cartridges. The
arrests are numerous, and hardly man
has been taken 10 the station. house
without al attempt being made
st rescue, and consequent