The daily gazette., 1877-07-23

5lUlt lOE tuc tIOuult, Wcto very 1uIcbt' |
enipg. II WAS noteworthy tact that
hundrecs Of people il no way connect
ed with the railroad EXPRESSED their
to Join with the strikers
in driving them from the city. These
wore, inteIspersed VITA loud
and bitter threats tnat the company's
shops, depots and buildings should to
pight be laid in ashes, lF{9 IL(I
While some of the soldiers were car
rying a wounded comrade to shelter |
at the corner Of Liberty and Twenty |
eighth streets they were attacked by |
an excited mob aud compelled to drop |
the body OF their friehdl The soldiers
"a squad of six preparedAto' charge
on the crowd, when they were allow
ed topass. l Hua Hlt3 -.-
Sixteen were killed out right at the
Twenty eighth stleet crossing or have
since died and thirty or forty were
wounded. The killed aud wounded
SO far as their names have been ascer-
tanned at this hour, are as follows:
Charles Coyle, aged fifty; two balls in
abdomen snd thigh.
Henry Dearmit, one ball in side.
;, John Long, Pam Handle engineer; shot
through the heart. r..
Henry Fisher, a plumber.
,7.r---- Chafney, conductor of freight
train. b. 80 -l..t--
John Rowe, shot through the head; q
young man, lived only short time.
Jacob Dermitt, Pan-Handle engineer;
shet in the breast. s,I.
. William Riy, shot in tho forehead
while on the hill. .Ih
Decamp, brakeman ON the Pan-Han-
die route. il- p q A-i.iE A.lHhl i
Jacob Newmaster, member Of Com
pany E Captain Keils), Nineteenth
Regiment, instantly, being shot through
the head while standing on the hillside.
A Minsrsville boy and man with a
child in, his arus were killed on the hill.
fthe wounded, two Of the Philadel-
phia soldiers were shot and taken to the
Union Depot Hotel.
Daniel Frederick, citizen, was shot
through the shoulder, the ball striking
him in the back. .4.I
| First Sergeant of the Weccacoe Lee
glon, VIM. Y. Bernard, was shot through
! the temple or struck with a stone.
Charles White, severely wounded, was
bot through the body. -
Dennis McCarter, a spectator, was shot
in the bowels.
Sam Scott, shot in the thigh, will re-
cover.
buchanan, boy, shot in left
lung
Mrs. E. Keener, shot through the arm
while standing in her doorway.
A little girl, shot in the leg.
Daniel Williams, freight conductor, Of
IGreensburg, seriously.
Egbert Becker, private Company T.
Firat Regiment. Philadelphia, hit on tn
head with a stone.
Ed Jamison, seriously, will probably
die. .t.f.s ~.
Sam. W. Boyd, shot through the thigh
seriously. 'l
The son of A, L. Patterson, leg nearly
shot off. ....'. .t,,
A little girl, four years of age, residing
on the hillside, was seriously wounded
in the leg and thigh. Z" i' h@'
Two citizens were shot down on LID
lerty street a short time ago.
Passenger traffic on the Pennsylvania
road is entirely suspended, and the Un'
ion Depot and the adjoining hotels have
been abandoned.
Sheriff Fife's dead body has just beer
ID broagh ht in from the outer depot
Major-General Pearson is badly
wounded.
IL is reported that the Allegheny Ar
senal is in the hands of the rioters.
The rioters have captured three pieces
OF ordnance belonging to Knapp,s Bat
tery. o ~ ~
!, The names of the rest cannot be aseer
! tanned on account of the great eX Xcltement
At Iorrens the situation was unchanged
up to 10 y. IN. and NJ conflict Is expected
, there tonight. At 10 o'clock tonight thu
city was at the mercy of mob, who hat
|, , forced open the gun stores and armet
nearly a Thousand lien, who swore ven
geance on the soldiery. 1t looks nov
= (lO3O D. m.) as thong there would be
, terrible sacrifice of hfe, The troops ar
, lstreet and the Union Depot, but the mo-
y threaten to attack both and fire nearl.
twenty-five thousand barrels of oil tha
are on board the carsi in the freight ARDS
b There is no doubt that Generals Brlntol
3, and Pearson would be killed on sight l
j 1.-THE mob could find them. No freigh
= trains have been run or viii be to-mgn'
Z Later-By IL o'clock the mob had gut
! ted all the principal gun stores in IN
citv, and carried. of mnskets, rifles, shot
gdns, small arms and cutlery to the vaiu
T at least of 500 ,000 exclusive of the dan
= age to premises. They then formed !
Y line and marched up Pennsylvania an
Z Liberty streets to Twenty-eighth stree
. where az least thirty thousand peopl
| were assembled, anu began serge Vi III
: round-house, where tie First Brigad
9 was quartered. A regular fusillade wa
t opened through the windows but no shot
e were returned from the inside. What g,
}. ecution has been done is unknown and
f is impossible to find out as yet. The gel
eral fire alarm has just been struck 90
:, m.)from Twenty sight street, adm 1t Is D.
leved that the oil trains have been tire
e and that a terEible couhagration is aoou
to complete day of death and de'trut
t ton.
O The yells and cheers that went up froi
3 all parts of the city when the. alarm wa
h struck and the location of the fire mad
u known, show that the city is In the hant
70 of men animated by the devilsh spirit I
l. communism. The disturbance here hi
n passed beyond the limits of strike
n a riot. Municipal government is at a
II end aud the whole city will be gutted u
ar morrow il the rioters do not desist. III
e e police and 5000 military are powerless.
% 2 A, M.-The railroad tracks fro
-. Twenty-eighth street n the direction
y THE U niou Depot for quarter of mi
IN is one sheet Of fame, the Fire Depa