Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 / Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878

by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

First Blood.

Seventeen Citizens Shot in Cold Blood by the Roughs of Philadelphia.

The Lexington of the Labor Conflict at Hand.

The City in the Hands of the Strikers.

Armed Bands Patrolling the Streets.

The Civil and Military Authorities Powerless.

Bitter Denunciations of Sheriff Fife, General Pearson, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Authorities.

Threats that the Philadelphia Soldiers will not be Allowed to go Home Alive.

The Fourteenth and Nineteenth Regiments Disbanded and Refuse to Fight, and Many Give their Arms to the Strikers.

The Philadelphia Troops Penned in the Round-House and Surrounded by 20,000 Strikers.