The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-03
THE GREAT STRIKE.
It Subsidies = Gser some Lively
Riots jn Chicago.
AEaIErOSd HfuSIness In Fall OPP
Grafton Again

Riots in Chicago.
AEaIErOsd HfuSIness In Fall OPP
GRAFTON again.
Our account last week of the
railroad strike included the pro-
ceedings of Tuesday, July oath, at
which time the embargo on railroad
business was general. On Wednes-
day and Thursday the only exciting
events were in Chicago, where the
mob began q series of desperate
fights against the police and militia
ry, and Thursday was an especially
lively day in that city, the police,
militia, armed veterans, armed citi-
zens, and elk companies of u. S.
soldiers, having all they could do
several times to dispense the mob.
No general attempt was made to
burn or otherwise destroy property,
the mob seeming to desire only to
resist all efforts made to disperse it
or to arrest anybody. The military
fred vOlleys repeatedly before the
mob would disperse, ana in q few
hours It would gather again and re-
sist attack until the military fred
volleys straight into 1t. The names
of persons killed and a large num-
Der wounded are officially given,
but as most of those who fell dead
and wounded in the mob were seen
to be carried off by friends, 1t is be-
lieved that the number of deaths
and casualties are much larger than
officially reported. After Thursday
the rioters seemed discouraged and
no further serious disturbances &C.
CURED.
In Pittsburg no more fighting
took place after the memorably Sun
day of destruction, and the armed
citizens held the city under strict
surveillance until a large number of
militia and government soldiers ar
rived on Saturday. Up to that
time the railroad strikers had held
the depots and prevented freight
trains from running, but they gave
way to the soldiers without resist
ance, and the Pennsylvania Central
announced its entire line open.
A train of cars proceeding from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg, was
thrown of the track near Altoo-
na, Friday, and several were bad
Iy injured.
The Pennsylvania Central was
practically garrisoned by military
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, by
Saturday, and the strikers over
awed.
The military at HornellsviIle, N.
Y held the depot and guarded the
track for few days, until the road
and the men compromised matters,
and business was resumed by Sat
urday on the N. Y. Sc Erie. The
strike along the N. Y. Central did
not amount to much, and soon SUBJ
sided at its principal points, Alba
ny, Syracuse and Buffalo.
The Baltimore s. Ohio road
through Maryland, West Virginia
and Pennsylvania, was guarded by
military at all the points where the
strikers had offered resistance and
men were finally obtained TO run
trains without any concession on the
part of the company.
Trouble in Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Buffalo, Erie, Toledo, Indianapolis,
st. Louis, Kansas City and other
cities,wa prevented by tho prudent
action of the authorities, who pro-
cured arms for citizens aud military
aid as soon as practicable, and as
soon as they had large force, moved
against the strikers cautiously but
firmly, and by Sunday the danger
of riots and resistance was felt to
be over, and the railroad men them
selves began to acknowledge that
they could not maintain their EN-.
barge on railroad business much
longer. Some roads acceded to the
mems demands, some compromised,
and on Monday railroad bu siness
was resumed on most roads, with
the prospect of the strike ceasing
at all points during this week.
The newspapers in all the States
exercised great influence in sup
pressing the strikes, by unanimous
ly demanding the enforcement of
law and order, and the destruction
of railroad property in Pittsburg
alarmed property owners in all 9TH
er cities so much they made the
NEST energetic efforts 10 prevent
rioting, and in this way and for
this object forces were mustered in
each place more than sufficient to
arrest and imprison all the railroad
strikers who persisted in their at
tempts to prevent trains from rum
ming, and the strikers finding the
authorities had SO unexpectedly be-
come able to enforce the laws saw
that further resistance was useless,
and made what terms they could
and went to work again for their
respective companies. It may fair
ly be said that the Pittsburg riot
was the death blow to the strike,
though the strikers themselves had
little if anything to do with it.
George Francis Train now calls
himself "The Stormy Petrol of the
SkepticsI Ocean" He seems to be
a little more at sea than Bob In
gersoll himself = r-rr.,-- j,