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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e crowd then lifted I ather Dunn from thecrowd and bore him bodily away to a place of safety.• At this moment there was seen marching down Lacka-waima Avenue, from the companys store, a body of armedmen with repeating rifles and fixed bayonets. It was aposse which had been some time previously organized bythe Mayor, and the^^ were now coming to his assistance, athis request. They saw him bleeding at the street corner,as they crossed Wasliington Avenue. Just as they wereapproaching him for instructions, the mob attacked themfuriously. A large crowd had also followed them, andbegan firing pistols upon them from behind. The companyinnnediately wheeled about and fired. Some aimed overthe crowd, and others fired with fatal effect killing fourmen and wounding others. The mob broke and fled in every direction ; but the com-pany kept on firing wherever they could see a threateningcrowd, and these volleys completely rid the streets ofrioters. The ghastly picture presented upon the streets as
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TROUBLES IN THE GOAL REGIONS. 333 the mob fled was horrible. On the corner near the drug-store where Mayor :McCune had his wounds dressed, lay aman with the top of his head torn off and his blood andbrains scattered on the sidewalk. Three others in Aemiddle of the street were strnggling in the last agonies 06death ; and large numbers of wounded were being carriedinto di-ng-stores, or to their homes, by their friends. This ended the ))lo()dslied and riot at Scranton. On thenext day, General Brinton with three thousand troops, who,from their experiences at Pittsburg and elsewhere, we)-e in acondition of feeling which would permit of no trifling, ar-rived in the city, and immediate and effective measureswere taken to pnt down the tei-rible lawlessness and dis-order which seemed everywhere rampant. Notwithstand-ing the wounds of the Mayor, his bravery never desertedhim, and on Friday, the 29th, at the head of a posse, hecompelled tlie closing of the sahx)ns, though every mannerof threat a

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