The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-07-21
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SACRAMENTO. July 12.--The Southern
Pacific Co. broke the blockade at Sac
ramento Wednesday, and the engine
that hauled the first train out lies on
its back in slough by the side of y
broken bridge, with three cars that
made up the train.
4 Under the wreck, in the ooze and
slime of the stagnant water, lie the
throttle, and three soldiers, who were
guarding him.
The dead are:
Engineer Samuel Clark.
Privates Byrne, T.ubkerden ana
Clark.
| Three men were injured, and one of
them will almost surely die. This is
Wesley Dugan, also a private in Bat.
terry l., Fifth artillery. He was on the
tender of the engine, and was thrown
to the shore of the slough. One of his
arms was torn from its socket and
broken in three places, and his jaw
was broken.
The wreck of the train was accom-
plished by means of u loosened rail.
Two fishplates were removed, spikes
drawn and bolts taken out The rail
was left in place, aad there was moth.
sng to show the engineer, who was
running his train slowly and cautious
ly, that there was anything wrong
with the track ahead of him.
When the wheels struck the loose
rail it sent the heavy engine
onto the ties. The cars followed,
and the whole forward end of the
train plunged into the muddy water.
The trestle is complete wreck, rails
are bent like shepherds crook, and
ties are ground to toothpicks. The
locomotive turned a complete somer.
sault.
The scene of the wreck is a little over
well selected for the disaster The
loosened rail was just at the end of a
bridge, and the momentum of the
heavy train could not fail to hurl the
greater part of it to destruction.
The effect of the outrage has been to
make the soldiers desperately bitter
against the strikers; where they would
have fred with reluctance they will
now shoot with actual pleasure. Their
feeling is shared by the militia, and it
is almost certain thing that the lives
of other men will pay for those of the
three soldiers.
The soldiers have already captured
two of the strikers who are suspected
of knowing how that rail came to be
misplaced. The cavalry brought the
men in, and they were under guard at
the depot for some time before being
turned over to the United States mar.
shal. President Clevcland's proclama.
ton did not quite place Sacramento
under martial law, so that the civi!
authorities will deal with these ac-
cused men. otherwise military court
and firing squad would deal their fate
out to them.
The following has been issued by
the mediation committee of the local
railway union:
desire to state in behalf of the American
Railway union that this order had not the
remotest connection with the ditching of the
train between Sacramento and Davisville
Wednesday afternoon, by which several peo-
pie lost their lives. We censure this act as
outrageous and barbarous, and contrary to the
spirit Of the American Railway union, which is
engaged in an honorable struggle in the inter-
est of labor. If this act was done by sympa-
thtZers we regret it the more, as it is call
culated to injure rather than to help us. We
sincerely trust that this first act of violence
will be the last. Fl. A. KNOX Chairman.