Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — THE STRIKE AT OTHER POINTS. [ARTICLE]

THE STRIKE AT OTHER POINTS.

From tlie dispatches of the 22d of July we glean tlie following : At Cumberland, Md., the Baltimore and Ohio road was still blockaded, the strikers having everything their own way. Freight cars wqre broken open by the mob, and a largo quantity' of provisions and other things were carried away. Women and children, with bags and baskets, assisted in the depredations. The authorities were unable to guard the property. At Baltimore there were several collisions between the police and the rioters, resulting in a few broken heads. Tlie Governor of Maryland called on the President for military assistance, and the latter issued the customary proclamation commanding “ all persons engaged in or connected with said domestic violence and obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to, their respective abodes.” Nearly all the troops and marines at Fortress Monroe and Norfolk were ordered to proceed at once to Baltimore, and Gen. W. S. Hancock was directed to go from New York and assume command of the forces. The strike on the Erie was spreading, and •serious trouble was anticipated at Buffalo and other places. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Ciiicago train men inaugurated a strike at Fort Wayne, and resolutely declared that they would allow no trains to move from that point. At Vincennes freight trains were stopped on tlie Ohio and Mississippi road, and a general strike Was thought to be imminent all along the lino. At Indianapolis hand-bills were posted, calling a public meeting of all ‘ in favor of crushing the railroad monopoly.” The strikers began operations at Reading, Pa. They tore up the tracks, burned tlie Lebanon Valley bridge and a number of freight cars. At Buffalo ami other points in New York the firemen and brakemen on the Lake Shore road struck,and all freight traffic was stopped. The Governor of New York issued a proclamation warning strikers against acts of violence, and calling upon all good citizens to aid in suppressing disorder. Several regiments of New York militia were called out and dispatched to Buffalo, Hornellsville, and other threatened points. Incendiary strikers burned a train of thirty-live oil cars near Baltimore.