The morning call., 1894-07-04
Uncle Sans Marshal
Down.
:TRAMPLED BY A MOB.
. Powerless to Preserve
Order.
: ASKS FOR STATE TROOPS.
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His Life Was Saved by the
Strikers.
\
MADE A PRETTY GRITTY FIGHT.
Two San Francisco Regiments Or
dered to Sacramento to Answer
:. the MarshaPs Call.

The critical time Of the great strike
has suome. The men who have refused
to draw Pullman cars, but who are per-
fectly willing to handle mail trains and
to facilitate in every way possible,
hgreeabIy to the position taken by tn M
selves, the m ovement of freight and pas
seDger trains, have come into conflict
with the authority of the United States,
aud that authority is now to be supple
mented by the armed force Of the State
of California. AS has been anticipated,
the first and most serious clash came at
Sacramento. The railroad officials ex-
pressed a determination to break the
q blockade there yesterday and, backed by
United States Marshal Barry Baldwin
and the local Chief of Police, proceeded
TO carry that d determin tion into effect.
The strikers were perfectly willing that
a mail train should be made up and dis
patched, and they quilted the station
in obedience to the orders of the office RS.
go In fact, they were counseled to disper Sc
bv their own officers.
When a Pullman sleeper was included
%. In the proposed mail train the strikers
:: broke all bounds. stormed the alton and
obstruction of the mails, but it was also
the prevention of the handling of Pull
mans. In the crowd of angry men Mar
shall Bald win was several times knocked
down and received a pretty severe
: handling. He was even compelled to
draw two revOlVers in seIf-d defeDse-and
had he used them, In the temper of the
crowd he was in, he might have been
m9re neversIy handled than he was.
With the assistance of some of the
strikers he secured a refuge in the office
OF Division superintendent Wright at
LAST, and from there TELEGRAPH a re-
quest to Governor Markham for militia
to preserve the peace. The Governor,
in answer to this request, has ordered
outtw of the San Francisco regiments.
The other regiments throughout the
state have been directed to hold them
selves in readiness for service. The reg
ulars in San Francisco are also held
ready to take the field, and there is a
part Of a regiment under Colonel shafter
southbound, which should reach Los
Angel es early this morning.
Over In Oakland there was q small
sized riot during the day, but 1t was
ports made IT. Slight as the disturbance
was, it had the effect Of adding q new
p complication, for It was undoubtedly
used as the immediate basis of the ac-
tion taken by United States Circuit
Judge McKenna in issuing an order en-
Joining Eugene Debs and bers of tho
AR. q. from interference with tho run
ming Of the mails or with the property
Of the Southern Pacific. This order will
be served upon the strike leaders In
ORkl and this morning.
Altogether, the situation grows more
and more serious with every day. No
man yet can venture q prediction aa to
the outcome
SACRAMENTO, July 3. - Never In the
history of the capital city of California
has there been so exciting d day as that
preceding the anniversary of the birth of
the nation. All day long countless num-
80 bers OF people assembled at the Southern
Pacific Company's depot and in subdued
tones discussed the startling events which
II was felt would surely occur. That
blood was not shed is due to the eood
Judgment of United States Marshal Bald
win. Had he shot down the strikers WIN
assaulted him bloody battle would hay.
snsued.
After the crowd had been cleared this
morning train was made up, with San
Francisco as It's destination. 1t was CON-
poses of several mailcars, which were
coupled nearest the engine. Behind these
were number of the Objectionable Pull
man cars and day coaches. The locomo-
tive had on full head of steam and every
thing was in apparent readiness for the
signal to start. The members of the Amer
lean Railway Union had assisted the au-
thOrities in clearing the yards of strikers,
and some of them had assisted in switch
ing with the understanding that only
mail train would be taken out.
But the "mail" train which had been
made up was not satisfactory. 1t was one
Of the kind which United States Attorney
General Olney had defined as a regular
mail train, but it bad on Pullmans, and
: when the men saw the sleepers they said
that they could not 20 out. Then they
swarmed into the depot and proceeded to
uncOuple the cars.
Barry Baldwin, the United States Mar
shal, with determination flashing from his
eyes, stepped forward and commanded the
men to stand back. They did not heed
him. They kept crowding so closely upon
him that he was thrown down a number
Of times, and when he arose the last time
he had brace of revolvers in his hands.
He ordered the men to stand back, but
scarcely had he spoken when he was