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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.
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tience of all citizens, while intimating thatriot and disorder would be put down with a strong hand.The city had an available force of ten thousand armed men,consisting of )3olice, militia, and emergency men. Thelatter, by far the greatest number, were composed of Unionand Confederate ex-soldiers, and knew just what warmeant. Beside this, two companies of United States troopsw^ere conveniently stationed at Alcatraz and Angel Islands,while the United States corvettes, Pensacola and Lacka-wanna, with a force of marines, were at hand in the harbor. While everybody was in this condition of suspense, analarm of fire was sounded. The hoodlums had firedthe Pacific Mail docks, and the large lumber yards in thatvicinity, and soon after, in large force, attacked the Chinesequarters in a most vicious and desperate manner. Tliesehelpless Celestials fled in terror in every direction. Manyin dismay sprang from windows into the streets, and werethen stoned and beaten by tlieir enemies; others hid in
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412 THE END. underground holes ; others, in scant clothing, skipped alongthe roofs of buildings like the liveliest of escaped lunatics;many pleaded and begged on their knees, and were clubbedand pulled through the streets for their pains ; while it issaid that others actually committed suicide rather than betaken by the demons attacking them. As soon as this con-dition of things had been learned at headquarters, a largeforce of police was dispatched to the scene from one direc-tion, and a much larger number of Vigilantes were sent tothe same point from another. The two forces attackedthem with splendid spirit and energy. For a full half hour the struggle continued, the policeand the Vigilantes both forcing the rioters into a densemass, and pounding and beating them terribly, finally tri-umphantly bearing off haiif a hundred of the most desperateleaders, and dispersing the mob. Three of the mob were killed outright in this battle, andforty-six hoodlums were badly wounded. But it put an

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