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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 Poisalshead, just above the ear, and the other flying wide of themark. Tliis sudden onslaught caused a lively scatteringamong tlie women, children, and peaceably disposed andmore timid citizens, while the mob drew closer up to thesoldiers. The switch remained unchanged, and the locomo-tive stopped. But this was not all. Poisal, upon receivingtlie striking firemans shot, rapidly raised his gun and dis-charged it, aiming at Yandergriff. Another soldier senta second missile in the same direction, and both were wellaimed. One bullet struck the young man in the thigh, andanother penetrated his arm. He fell, mortally wounded.There followed several explosions of small arms, but noother persons were seriously injured. Poisal and Yander-griff were taken to their homes. In a moment the militiafound themselves overpowered, and once more the strikershad things all in their own way. The sounds of the firingdrew larger crowds from the city, and the excitement was,if possible, still more intense.
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FIRST GUN OF THE COMMUNE. 155 The fireman and engineer who had vohinteered to startthe train, managed to escape, left the locality, and returnedto tlieir homes. Col. Fanlkner appreciated, in an instant, that his militia,however brave and trustworthy under ordinary circum-stances, would not attempt to kill their relatives and friends,their brothers and neighbors. He therefore reported toMr. Sharp that his soldiers were powerless, many openlysympathizing with the strikers, and he must march themback to the armory. They were of no use where theystood, and the only course left was to order them home,leaving the road blocked up with trains and everything inthe cars subject to the caprices of an inflamed and angrymob. All that day, and for several da^^s thereafter, Yander-griff lay upon his bed suffering terrible agony from his in-juries, at his house in the city, watched over and nursed byhis wife and the best surgeons the country afforded. It mayas well be stated here that, twelve days su

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