Year: 1877

The strikers claim that troops can not keen the
trains running over the Third Division between
Keyser and Grafton; zeph the rlngleader arrest,
cd az Martinsburg, has made his boasts that az
soon as the troops leave the place the strike will
break out afresh. This seems to be the opinion
among great many that the men who started
with trains west were more or less disafected and
their Willingness 70 go 10 work is assumed to
further the plans OF the rioters The train that
arrived at Keyser consisted Of four cars. There
were two soldiers on the front of the engine and
three with the fireman. The soldiers In the cars
had their guns out Of the windows ready for i'm.
mediate action. The strikers along the line of
road seems 10 have raised fresh courage at their
success TO day, and trouble of more serious nature
is TO be feared ut all points except Martinsburg,
where no trouble is apprehended as long as the
military are there.


Tonight the excitement at Keyser lS intense
and the strikers swear no trains shall pass, and
they will resist the military II necessary. They
make no concealment nor hesitate In claiming
that 200 miners In the George Creek region have
promised them aid. At Piedmont while the eX-
citement is great, strikers are quietly working and
secretly working for their cause, seemingly have
neither fear OF civil or military authorities. the
people Of all classes openly sympathize with them
which adds fuel to the already infamed and ex-
cited rioters.


The following is a proclamation


Bread-Strlke and Live, Remain and Perish


Earnest.


Piedmont, July 20-Be II understood that II the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company does not
meet the demand Of Its employees at an early date
the officials will hazard their lives and endanger
their property, for we shall run their trains and
locomotives into the river; we shall blow up their
Bridges we shall tear up their railroads we shall
consume their shops with fire, and ravage the no
tells with desperation. 4 Company which has
from time TO time 80 numerically cut our wages,
and finally reduced us to starvation. For such we
have lost all sympathy, and have humbled our.
selves from time TO time to the unjust demands
of the Company until our children cry for bread.
Company that knows all this we would ask in
the name Of high heaven What more do they
want? Our blood they can get it our lives, we
are willing to sacrifice them, but not for them out
for our families; our rights call out your armed
herd. Ify0u want them, shield yourselves. If
you can, but remember that no foe. however death
| telling, can repel for q moment our determina-
ton. Both may ensue, but let II come. They may
think or call as weak, Fifteen hundred noble
miners who have been insllted and put Upon by
this selfsame Company are tour backs, Besides
sirs, the merchants and all communities at large
along the whole line of the road are on our Gide,
| and more the working class Of every State in the
Union are in our favor and we feel confident that
the God of the poor and of The oppressed of the
earth Is with u4. Therefore, let the clashing of
arms be heard let the fiery elements be poured, II
they think 1t well, but in view of our rights and
in the defense Of our families we shall conquer or
we shall die. By order of


MANY STRIKERS.