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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his lad took in the situation at a glance. He plungedinto the river, never heeding the cowardly fiends w^hostoned him, as boys will stone a drowning rat, swam to thepier, climbed through the trap, and, amid the cheers of thepolice and the yells of the maddened mob, swung thebridge back to the approaches. The moment it was inplace the cavalry charged back across it, followed by theSecond Regiment supported by one field-piece, and all fol-lowed by police on foot and in wagons. Then tiring onthe mob began in earnest and with deadly results, four ofthe mob beino^ killed outri2:ht, and lara:e numbers wounded. During the afternoon members of the mob which hadreceived such a threshing at Halsted Street bridge and via-duct, moved over to the vicinity of Canal Street and Canal-port Avenue, and, effecting a junction with their friendsfrom the Bridgeport slums, began making it decidedlyuncomfortable for the police. Lieutenant Seaveys menwere detailed to quell the disturbance, and met a murderous
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404 THE END. reception by the mob. Sergeant Callahans sqnad and Col-onel Agramontes cavalry were then sent to reinforce them,and the latter force charged at f nil gallop down BurlingtonStreet, a thoroughfare but one square in length, but thicklyinfested by the lowest Poles and Bohemians which Chicagocan muster. They fought with the feiocity of maddenedbrutes, but in among them, and upon them, dashed theexcited horsemen, running them down and trampling themunder foot, and showing them no mercy. The men cutright and left with their sabres, serving men and womenalike, and often running their horses into the very doors ofhouses in pursuit of the enemy. This body of tumultuousfools were squelched completely. And so passed this memorable Thursday. It was one continuous series of fights, like those described,from mornino* imtil nio^ht. Nineteen of the rioters werehnown to have been killed. Over one hundred personswere known to have been wounded. The mobs had every-where been defeated, and th

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