. Annals of the great strikes in the United States. A reliable history and graphic description of the causes and thrilling events of the labor strikes and riots of 1877 . ers were arrested earlier in the day for run-ning an engine from the yard into the roundhouse. An attempt was made about three oclock in the even-ing, to send out a train on the Indianapolis division ofthe Pan Handle. Strikers coaxed the engineer and fire-man off, and ran the engine into the roundhouse, and putout the fire. Military were guarding the train. In themeanwhile, the engine was again fired up, and anotherattempt ma
. Annals of the great strikes in the United States. A reliable history and graphic description of the causes and thrilling events of the labor strikes and riots of 1877 . ers were arrested earlier in the day for run-ning an engine from the yard into the roundhouse. An attempt was made about three oclock in the even-ing, to send out a train on the Indianapolis division ofthe Pan Handle. Strikers coaxed the engineer and fire-man off, and ran the engine into the roundhouse, and putout the fire. Military were guarding the train. In themeanwhile, the engine was again fired up, and anotherattempt made to get the train out. Strikers switchedgondolas on the track between the engine and trainwhile the engine was backing down. The obstructionswere removed under a guard of soldiers, and the trainfinally got out. Several shots were fired at randombetween the soldiers and the crowd, but no harm alarm bell was sounded and the citizen guards calledout, but soon returned to headquarters. There was muchexcitement, but no violence that night. Citizens com-panies, well armed, guarded depots, railroad bridges,roundhouses, and other buildings. tftt-r iifh .hf i. CHAPTER XXII. Insolence in Indiana. The Strike Inaugurated at Fort Wayne—Trackmen and Trainmen—Indianapolis Taken In—Terre Haute Yields to the Popular Up-rising—Miners at Brazil—Mayor Cavin of Indianapolis Indisposedto Interfere—Governor Williams not Certain that any of hisConcern Except to Keep the Peace—United States-Judges andBankrupt Railroad Receivers—Freaks of the Stiikers—They Cap-ture a Railroad. The strikes commencing in the East, moved west withgreat rapidity. On Saturday, July 21st, at eight oclockin the evening, the Great Strikes were inaugurated inIndiana, at Fort Wayne, by the employes of the Pitts-burg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railway. Freight trainsbound west, scheduled to leave at that hour, were madeup, when brakemen and firemen refused to go on and conductors de
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