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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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d company of the regiment, until asquad of police was sent to his relief. H the reader supposes, for an instant, that the strikers de-serted the soldiers and permitted tliem to march unmolestedthrough the streets to Camden Depot, he is greatly in error.On the contrary, the firemen, trackmen, brakemen, andothers, closely pushed and hotly pressed upon the two com-panies, which were soon separated by considerable space—asfar as Light Street, while marching ou the double-quick to-ward their destination, and kept up an incessant fire of pis-tol-shots, and shower of stones and bricks and whateverwas found that could be converted into a weapon of offense. Baltimore Stieet is a principal thoroughfare, and upon itare situated many of the largest and most elegant businesshouses of the city. The A))ierican building, at the cornerof Baltimore and South Streets, is a handsome and costlystructure, and its uppei- windows overlooked some of themost exciting scenes of that hurried march of the Sixth
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182 MARCH OF THE SIXTH REGIMENT. Regiment. At this point the soldiers turned and dischargedtheir weapons upon those who were so nearly upon them,then wheeled and resumed their tramp. The sidewalks andcrossings were, at that hour, crowded with pedestrians, ofall ages and descriptions, and both sexes, and the volle)^ ofmusketry caused the utmost consternation. Children ranand screamed. Women screamed and fainted, and menfound occasion to get out of the way most ungracefully andquickly. At the corner of Frederick and Baltimore Streets anotherscattering discharge of musketry came, and after that thecrowd of rioters perceptibly diminished, and men andwomen again ran and scattered in every direction possible—excepting towards the soldiers. Horses were frightened,broke from their fastenino-s, and ran, drao^o-ino^ shatteredvehicles after them, thus adding to the prevalent hubbub.More women and children shrieked, and the panting mobhowled hoarsely, still keeping up offensive demonstrations.B

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