Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-22

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| pie present A consultation was then held
| by the officers in command with Superin-
| tendeDt Pitcairn and the sheriff, after which
the latter proceeded to read the riot act
| Having warrants for the arrest of fifteen al
the ringleaders, he proceeded TO make an
arrest
"GIvE THEM HE'LL
| A man approached, waved his hat, aud
calling to the crowd and the strikers, said
| Give them hell" immediately shower
/ OF powders was buried into the troops, and
| one revolver shot fred In the ranks. The
officer in command, General Brinton, prob
ably, though it is contradicted, then ordered
line from platoon to platoon until the left OF
| OF the line was reached, and the firing was
| repeated several times. The crowd, of course.
fled In d!smay, including the strikers who
| sought shelter in every direction behind cars
stumps, rocks, piles of rails, &C. The road
during the firing was apparently strewn with
the killed and wounded.
THREATS OF THE RIOTERS.
After the firing ceased the ma jority of those
left unhurt beat a hasty retreat. Immed lately
AFTER the firing crowds OF excited people
A woman and a little girl We're among the
wounded. Hundreds of people in no way
connected with the railroad expressed their
determination to join with the strikers In
driving them from the city. These remarks
were interpreted with loud aud bitter threats
that the company's shops, depots and build.
ings should last night be laid in ashes.
While some of the soldiers were carrying a
shot comrade TO shelter at the corner of Lib
erty and 2sth streets they were attacked by
an excited mob and compelled TO drop the
body of their friend. The soldiers a squad
OF six, prepared 10 charge on the crowd
when they were allowed 20 pass.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT.
Inc news OF the hring spread through the
CITY like wildnre and produced the most in
tense excitement. The streets were rapidly
crowded and the widest rumors prevailed
Nearly every one deprecated the action of
the soldiers as useless, and only tending TO
incite the mob to violence. When the news
reached the large number OF rolling mill
hands and workmen in the various shops OF
eight O'Clock the streets of the central por-
tion OF the city were alive with them.
TWO HUNDRED RIFLES SEIZED.
A large crowd broke into the mandatory
OF the Great western gun-works and cap
tured 200 rifles and quantity of small arms,
and various other crowds sacked all the other
places In the city where arms were exposed
for sale, getting about 800 more. At hal past
O'Clock 1 600 mill hands came over from
birmingham, on the south side, and all well
armed, and the different crowds consolidated
and marched out to 2sth street.
Att O'Clock the troops, whose numbers had
swelled TO over 500 men. withdrew into the
roundhOuse at 2Sth and Liberty streets, tax
ing with them the two Calling guns and two
other pieces belonging to Breck's battery.
The roundhouse is very solid building
with double walls, the outer one of iron, and
the position Is the strongest possible one for
the troops. The strikers began TO assemble
rapidly, many arriving with guns procured
at the Allegheny armory. By midnight % 900
people were upon the ground, 600 OF whom
Superintendent Pitcaian's ONCE, 18th street,
were driven away. and the office was closed
ONE HUNDRED OIL CARS BURNED.
At halfpast eleven O'Clock the alarm of
fire was rung, corner OF Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and 2sth street. The fire proved To be an
Oil train of hundred cars, every carload of
which was fired by the strikers. II was be-
ing pushed down the track by the rioters to-
ward the Union depot, where the yard was
filled with the freight blocked by the strikers.
There were over one thousand cars in the
yard, loaded. The excitement was intense.
FROM SayENTY-FIvE TO ONE HUNDRED
RIOTERS KILLED.
A dispatch from PittsDurg, dated this
morning at $50 O'Clock, says: {" The fire on
the tracks OF the Pennsylvania road extends
from 2Sth street eastward about half a mile
The fire Is burning slowly cars loaded with
Oil and coke No danger to the Union depo;
can come from this fire. At 3 O'Clock how
ever, some OF the rioters set one Of the box
cars on fire opposite sd street. The car is at
the end of a connected line of cars extending
clear 10 the Z MON depot, and IL not checked
Will reach there by to morrow noon. II is
burning very slowly. There Is not a breath
OF wind. All OF this line Of cars is loaded
with freight owned by Pittsburgers. The
soldiers still hold the round house at 2sth
street, and will probably do so until the
arrival OF retnforcements in the morning.
Since O'Clock quite a brisk fire has been
kept up between the troops and the mob
| gathered on 18th and Liberty streets. No
accurate information concerning the KILLED
or wounded since that hour can be given,
but the losses Of the strikers may be safely
placed at IS or 100. The streets are now de-
serted and the city quiet"
THE RIOTERS IN POSSESSION OF THE CITY
At9p. m. last night 900 rioters were in
| possession Of the city and were marching
through the streets with drums beating and
days flying. The Philadelphia militia were
pot, and their position was considered very
critical. The telegraph employees were
driven from their posts ut the outer depot by
stones and other missiles as early as 3
last night captured three pieces of ordnance
belonging to Knapp's battery.
SHERIFF FIFE KILLED AND GENERAL
PEARSON WOUNDED.
A number OF citizens went to the Phi ladel.
phla soldiers, who are intre nched in the
pennsylvania roundhouse, last night, and
massacre is feared. They were unable to do
SO on account OF the surrounding mob. Three
of the soldiers who attempted to slip out
singly were shot and instantly killed. Two
citizens were shot down on Liberty street
last night. Passenger traffic on the Pennsyl-
vania road is entirely suspended and the
Union depot and adjoining hotels have been
abandoned. AT midnight Sherifrs Flies
dead body was brought in from The outer de-
pot. Major General Pearson was badly
THE CASUALTIES.
The number of people slain after dark is
very large, and the exact number will not be
accessible for several days. The summing
up Of the riot at 18th street yesterday after
noon shows a total of about twenty killed
and twenty mine wounded. The hillside was
dotted with dead and dying. The large sew
en-story Fort Wayne building. on the cor
ner OF 10th street, is reported to be In flames.
The seventh division of militia from Mead
Vile, Titusville, OIL City and other points in
the northwestern part OF the state are ex-
pected hourly At the Allegheny depot. A
large force OF armed men were laying for
them with q portion of Knapp's battery
which they captured early I'm the evening,
and planted TO command their approach.
There will In all probability be terrible blood
shed when they arrive They were due at 10
O'Clock.
GOVERNOR HARTRANFr
telegraphed General Latta to call all the
troops necessary and use every effort TO pro
tect sheriffs in the discharge OF their duties.
The Strike ut Altoona.
STRIKERS FIRED UPON AT ALTOONA.
Last evening at 8 O'Clock a train of soldiers
arrived at Altoona en- route to Pittsburg when
the strikers cOngregated on the railroad and
attempted to keep IL from starting, but the
train got of, and while IL was moving out
the strikers threw stones and fired q number
of shot ut II. Several ROl(iiara refurua.3 the