Identifier: strikerscommunis00pink (find matches)
Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of coal from the nowinfuriated mob. JSfo order for the troojjs to fire iqyoii the moh was given. Riolit and left the wounded soldiers beo^an to fall, andsome one poor fellow, goaded beyond forbearance, dischargedhis musket. In a moment more the firino- became o-eneral.The mob as hotly replied with pistols, muskets taken fromthe Pittsburg regiments on the hill, and every manner ofmissile that could be lifted or hurled. But the Philadel-phia troops knew how to shoot as well as to drill. Theeffect of their repeated volleys was terrible. The mob re-treated aghast, rallied, retreated, rallied again, and throughand through their numbers the deadly bullets mowedwrinkled and crumpled swaths, until upon the hill andalong the tracks the wild and frenzied rioters precipitatelywithdrew, carrying tJieir dead and wounded, whose numberGod alone may know. But they left only to return in theblackness of the night with fury and forces increased, tobring with them arson and flame, destruction and ruin.
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SIEGE OF THE ROUND-HOUSE. 239 until the city of Pittsburg slionld for a time be like somedoubly accursed spot to undergo the scourge of myriads ofdemons from the regions infernal. CHAPTEE XX. MEMOKABLE SIEGE OF THE KOUND-HOUSE AT PITTSBURG. Ko sooner had the attack on the Philadelpliia troops beenmade, compelling them to fire with such deadly effect uponthe rioters, tlian the members of the two Pittsburg regi-ments, the Fourteenth and Nineteenth, immediately threwdown their arms and refused to serve further. They thenfreely mingled with the rioters, and by their revolutionaryaction certainly assisted greatly in creating the generaldesire for revenge upon the Quaker City militia. A few ofthe more patriotic, seeing tliat the dissolution of their com-mands was complete, Iiastily snatched up such muskets asthey could secure, and put them in possession of GeneraLBrintons force. This praiseworthy course undoubtedlyprevented much bloodshed; for had the infuriated strikersbeen able to thoroug

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