The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-12
TRAINDITCHED
Threats of California Rioters Sc
cretly Carried Out.
Supports of Trestle Cut Away, Rails
LoOsened and Train of Pullmans
and Mail Cars Wrecked.
FOUR KILLED AND FOUR HURT
Engineer and Three Regular Sol
diers Crushed to Death.
Four Other Privates i'm Uncle Sans
Army, Who We're Guarding the
Train, Seriously Wounded.
DISAVOWED BY STRIKERS
Who Say the Deed Was Committed
by Their Sympathizers.
Brush Between Militiamen and Bush
whackers When the Regulars Landed
at Sacramento Yesterday.
ABOUT 2OOSHOTS EXCHANGED
Only One Person Killed, Jap
anese Boy Standing ON the Bank.
Engines "Killed" by Strikers and No
Trains Moved in Northern California
Blockade Lifted at Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-For over
twenty-four hours United States regulars
have been in the field in northern Cali
fornia, but the railroad blockade has not
been broken. In fact, the situation tonight
is deemed more serious than it has been
at any time heretofore.
Human life has been sacrificed at Sac
ramento in a horror which the strikers are
accused of having perpetrated- All of the
victims but one were soldiers. 1t is clear
that the strikers realize the folly of openly
resisting the United States army they
have resisted all municipal and State au-
thorities, and that the more barbarous and
more deadly tactics OF guerrilla warfare are
to- be resorted to. Twice during the day
the troops were alnbushed. The first at
tack from under cover was early in the
morning.
At o'clock Colonel Graham landed at
Sacramento with force of over six hun
dred regulars. No effort was made to
sst their progress The troops marched di-
rect to the Southern Pacific depot and took
possession OF the buildings and railroad
yards. A few hundred people, gathered at
the depot, dispersed when ordered to do
so. At the wharves a detachment of State
militia had been left to guard the water
out of sight than this little band of mi
litiamen was fired upon with rifles by
force of some twenty-five men who were
concealed i'm the bushes on the opposite side
of the river The militiamen returned the
fire, and about two hundred shots were ex-
changed across the river before the at
tacking party fed. A Japanese boy who
stood on the river bank was killed by
bullet from the militia. None of the at
tacking party was apprehended.
Under cover of the United States troops
the railway officials went INTO the yards
and resumed work unmolested. The tracks
were cleared and trains were made up AT
noon a train was dispatched for Oakland
under strong military guard. Among the
crowds of the strikers in the streets were
men who openly boasted that the train
would never reach Oakland but no one
thought they spoke knowingly. An hour
later, when the news came back to Sacra-
mento of horrible wreck, in which at
least four men had perished, these same
men were as loudly denying that the men
were strikers who had sawed away the
supports of the railroad bridge. The disas-
ter at the bridge caused the railroad COM
pany to cease it's efforts to move trains
out of Sacramento. Until the wreckers now
at work shall have repaired the damage
done to the trestle, no trains can be run
over that line.
At Oakland, to-day, the outlook was also
warlike. An extra force of $50 special po-
licemen and deputies had been sworn in.
The railroad officers were making prepar-
ations early in the day to start trains
simultaneously with those sent out from
Sacramento. After the full force of depu-
ties had arrived band of strikers charged
in the yards. The deputies gave way.
After all the engines that had been run
out were killed the strikers withdrew.
Then came news of the disaster near Sac
ramento. When Division Superintendent
Wilder heard that the train had been
wrecked he stopped further preparations.
1--WE want to know where we stand" he
said, before we so ahead. If bushwhack-
ing is now to prevail do not propose
TO send out our men and jeopardize their
lives
A train was also sent down the Somona
valley branch from Calistoga this morn
ings, but it is stopped at Vallejo. where
strikers killed the engine. Tonight trains
are running in northern California only on
the coast division. Neither in San Fran
cisco nor at San Jose did the strikers
cause any disturbance during the day.
At Los Angeles the blockade appears to
have been effectually broken. After the
slight disturbances at that point on Tues
day night the guard in the yards was in
creased. This morning the wrecked
were cleared away and trains went out
on time. a guard of troops accompanying
the overlands. The Southern Pacific over
land train from the East arrived in Los
Angeles at o'clock in the morning under
military guard. Another overland
train, similarly guarded. was dispatched at
noon.
When the United States District Court
convened at Los Angeles this morning
Judge Ross called the grand jury and re-
ferred briefly TO the wrecking of cars In
the railroad yards on Tuesday night. He
told them to indict all the parties they
found violating the law. Judge Ross also
charged the jury relative to the obstruc-
tion of the mails and interstate commerce.
He declared that the railroads, under the
law. were obliged to carry the nails on