The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-07-18
STILL DRIFTING APART
The House and Senate Cannot
Possibly Agree.
THE CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA
Oakland Has a Small Riot Congress
Endorses the Presidents Action
in UphOlding the Law.
The R1ot in Oakland.

OAKLAND, July 16.-About l O'Clock
this afternoon freight train was started
for Mendoza. Strikers interfered, pull
ing pins from the drawheads and cut
ting the air pipes. The police and mil
itia charged the crowd and several per-
sons were bayoneted, one of them be-
ing a woman. The first intimation
received at the camp that the presence
of troops was required was brought by
an orderly from an outpost, who rushed
into the presence of Lieutenant-Co Colonel
Geary, stating that the strikers had at
tackled train and were proceeding to
destroy the property. The long roll
was at once sounded, and troops were
rushed to the scene of disorder, where
the outpost guard of the cavalry had al
ready put in an appearance. The SOL
diers came to "port arms" and began
operations by pressing the crowd back
alongside the train. When the soldiers
finally reached the first crossing, the
first company wheeled into line to pro-
tect the street from the crowd. The
other companies continued to march
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crossing there turned into Gross street,
where a crowd of several hundred fpeo-
pie was slowly, but. firmly, kept NOV
ing. Whenever an obstinate spectator
was encountered persuasive force was
employed to bring him into submission
with bayonets fixed. Women mixed
freely with men, and elbowed their way
where they could obtain the best view
of the conflict.
Midway down Seventh street from
Cedar avenue the soldiers rushed into a
crowd pursuing them to the door of a
house kept by a man named Monroe,
and which is said to be the headquar-
ters of the strikers. When the. soldiers
first appeared on Gross street there was
avid rush from the street. The gen.
eral excitement which seized the spec
tators also affected the soldiers. Even
women were not exempted from the
street. One of them, Mrs. Haley, a
slow in making her escape, owing to
which one of the soldiers prodded her
with his bayonet. The troopers charged
up Cedar avenue, urging their horses
into the hottest of the charge.
Among others charged on by the sol
diers was blind man named Fleming,
who had just arrived from San Fran
cisco, and was going down Cedar avenue
when the crisis occurred. Unfortu-
nately for himself he was for some time
carried along by the crowd until the
corner of Cedar avenue and Goss street
was reached, and the soldiers then came
along and arrested him, and he, with
twenty others, were conveyed to the
guardhouse, which had been improvised
IN tent. subsequently, all the prison
ers we're turned over to the police after
a sensible speech from Colonel Geary,
explaining the position of the national
guard and the imperative necessity to
maintain order and protect life and
property. Fleming, the blind man,
was sent to his destination. A peculiar
feature of today's excitement was that
whatever duty had to, be done in the
suppression of the attack on the trains,
the federal troops were conspicuous by
their absence. The military display
was entirely by the national guard.