Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-02

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ed. Reaching the corner of Ninth and Broad
way the mob attacked the freight depot of the
Louisville and Nashville Great Southern Rail
road, smashing its windows and doors, and
then marched to Tenth street and wrecked the
windows of the Pullman Southern Car Com
pany's building. Proceeding up Broadway
with loud yells they stoned all the fine houses
on this street until Third was reached. Com
ing in this avenue to Maj. Jacobs house, il
was attacked, and then that of DR.. Edward
Stanford, President of the Louisville and
Nashville Great Southern Railroad, was at.
tackled in the same manner. Along Walnut
street, houses and stores were treated in the
same manner. At the corner of Flood and
Green Streets fifty policemen placed them:
selves in line, and when some one in the crowd
yelled to attack them, the officers opened fire,
shooting over the heads of the mob. The
men and boys in the mob scattered in all di'
rections. The damage done cannot be esti'
mated.
After these occurrences seven hundred mi
litia, many of them influential and worthy
citizens, went on duty, armed with guns and
pistols The police was enforced to one hun
dred and seventy-6ve. Business houses were
closed, and the storekeepers and others joined
the militia The mayor ordered all liquor
saloons to close, and effective measures were
taken to suppress the least repetition Of vic.
lence that might be attempted. In the Louis
vile riot, it is said the very worst elements
are mixed in with the idlers who began the
trouble. .l
In St. Louis, on the same day, the mayor
published proclamation, warning all per-
SONS against the commission of acts of vio-
lence, declaring non.interference between the
strikers and railroad companies, and an
nouncing committee of safety under the di'
rection Of Gen. A. J. Smith, Judge Thos. T.
Ganet, Gen. John S. Marmaduke and others.
At the labor meeting held in the same city
on the previous night, one speaker said that
they had seven thousand stand Of arms in
their possession, at which there were cries of
"Let US have them and we will use them. y
and another speaker charged the bloodshed-
ding at Baltimore and Pittsburg upon the
President of the United States. He sent the
army into their midst to put down men strug.
Cling for their rights. The series of resolu.
tions framed by the executive committee of
the workingmen's party of the United States
were adopted, declaring that they will not
hold themselves responsible for any act OF
violence that may be committed, but will do
all in their power to assist in keeping order
and preventing violence. Their motto is:
death to all thieves, incendiaries and MUIR
derers" They recommend general strike
of all branches of industry for eight hours for
a days work, and call upon legislators for the
enactment of an eight hour law. After the
meeting had adjourned a procession formed !,
which after marching through number of
streets crossed the river to east st. Louis,
where number of speeches were made
Only postal cars leave St. Louis eastward.
The strikers there say there is no middle
ground in this case; it is either absolute victo-
ry or defeat with them and they propose to
make the issue square and clearly defined
from now on, and to effect this they will put
total embargo on freight and passenger traffic.
Their organization increases in strength and
perfectness every hour; but so long as they
are not interfered with in their purpose to OBJ
tain what they consider fair and just remune.
ration for their labor, there will be no violence
or disorder; but if they are forcibly opposed
there will be trouble, and plenty oft
1t is reported that two hundred and fifty
men of Gen. jeff G. Davis regiment, en- route
for St. Louis, we're switched off on side track
at Sedalia, but whether by the Missouri Pa
ci6c, or by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad men, or by outside parties, is not
stated.
In San Francisco, on the 24th, meeting Of
the working men, ten thousand strong, ad-
ourned after wrecking Chinese wash-house,
making their way homeward in squads. They
played all kinds of pranks on the Chinese.
Five hundred policemen prevented them from
reaching the Chinese quarter. Stones and
clubs we're used, but no fire arms. The de-
monstration seems to have been free and by
two o'clock all was quiet
A Washington dispatch of the 24th says
that the Cabinet occupied its session in dis
cussing the strike. 1t was concluded that no
further action was necessary at present be-
yond calling another regiment from the
South-probably from Texas.
Messengers from the Baltimore and Ohio
Road are reported to be on the New England
roads persuading the men to strike. They
are dissatisfied with their pay, but do not
deem strike advisable. The streets of Wor.
cester, Mass, however, are full of rumors of
an engineers strike on the Boston q Albany
Road. The managers of that road appre-
hend no trouble unless the New York Gen.
tral strikes. One thousand men of the West
Albany shops have Joined the strike and are
coming to Albany. a~a -.
Late this afternoon the strike became gen.
eral along the Chicago and Canada Southern
Main Line and the Toledo and Detroit d.
vision.
The railroad and packing men at a meet
ing at Kansas City have decided to strike.
The miners of Beaver Brook mines at Un-
bried, Penn, have struck. No violence.
Shop hands and machinists at Scranton,
Penn, compelled to quit work. Grand army
of the Republic at Philadelphia has taken
measures to organize for suppression of strike
There are II posts in that city. Their SER
vices have been accepted by Mayor Stokely,
who has also increased the police force to fif-
teen hundred. ... s ...s .-,.... h,
Dispatches, from Washington, of the 25th,
give the following items: .. .....-..
The rails have been removed from the
Erie track at Chemung Bridge.
The freight conductors, fremen and brake
men on the New York Central at East SYRIA
ouse have struck. The strikers detailed men
from their own body to protect property.
The mail and passenger trains are allowed to
pass. The strl..o warn off outsiders, tramps