Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — Silver Passing Safe Through the Pittsburgh Riot. [ARTICLE]

Silver Passing Safe Through the Pittsburgh Riot.

Among the cars which were destroyed during the prevalence of the riot were ten or twelve which contained freight shipped by the Pennsylvania Lead Company of Mansfield. It was generally supposed that all these cars contained pigs of lead, and, in the surfeit of other more valuable and more easily transported goods, no one thought of loading himself with this heavy metal After the fire, it was discovered that three of the cars contained pure silver, which had been smelted at the Mansfield establishment, and which was op its way to

the Philadelphia mint. The silver was in the form of pigs, a little smaller than pigs of lead, and, like the lead, it has melted and run down between the ties and in the gutters. Of course there was no effort on the part of the company to dissipate the impression that the ears contained nothing but lead, and as the metals look much alike there were no attempts to steal any of the more precious substance. The value of the silver that was in the cars is not definitely known, but the amount was several thousand dollars.— Pittsburgh, Telegraph.