The record-union., 1894-07-06
SEVENTH DAY OF THE STRIKE.
1t Closes With Complete Blockade in
Northern California.

1t Closes With a Complete Blockade in
Northern California.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.-The seventh
day of the great railroad strike closes
with the great blockade more complete
in Northern California than it has been
at any time since Debs ordered the
American Railway Union men to tie up
the Southern Pacific. At Sacramento
and Oakland the embargo enforced by
the strikers is absolute, not a wheel
being allowed to turn, and at no other
point in the State is the Southern Pacific
doing any business. Sacramento con-
tinues to be the center of interest.
At Oakland the strikers are in absolute
control. The State militia proved of no
avail, for the sympathy of the militiamen
is with the strikers. Companies from
Petaluma, San Rafael and Santa Rosa
had been ordered to Oakland. but they
were sent home without being ordered
against the strike ers. This morning the
company fired up two switch engines on
the Oakland mole. No sooner had this
been done than mob of 300 strikers bore
down upon the yards, pushed past the
unresisting Deputy Sheriffs and cap
tured the locomotives. They ran the en-
raked out the fires and let out the water.
The railroad officials made no further at
tempt to turn wheel.
While this riot was In progress on the
Oakland mole thousands of people who
live on the Oakland side of the bay and
do business in San Francisco stood on
the shore waiting for transportation. All
the regular ferry-boats had been stopped.
and to make the blockade more complete
three big ferry-boats that were tempo
rarily running up Oakland Creek ground
ed at low tide and stuck fast in the creek.
From before o'clock until after 10
o'clock there was no communication.
The tirst Oaklanders to reach San Fran
cisco arrived at 1890. Traffic on the coast
division running out of San Francisco is
also obstructed. At San Jose a large force
of strikers stopped the passage of trains
by throwing themselves on the track.
Many interior towns are already running
short of supplies, and are complaining
bitterly.
Coastwise and even Easterly mail is
now coming into and going out of San
Francisco on ocean steamers. The postal
authorities no longer hope for speedy
resumption of railroad traffic. The
steamer Walla Walla sailed for Puget
Sound this morning with tons OF general
mail for Washington, Idaho. British
Columbia, and letter mail for the East.
1he letter pouches VIII go East over The
Great Northern. Mails for Southern Call
ifornia were taken out on the steamer
Santa Rosa. Oregon mail was taken TO
Portland on the steamer Truckee. Mails
also arrived by steamer from the north
and south.
There is talk of sending the incoming
Australian steamer Monowai to Puget
Sound, there 10 discharge her Eastern
freight and mails. She was due to-day.
The coastwise steamers are unable to
meet the demand for passenger trans
portation.
NO FEDERALS ORDERED HERE.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-No regular
troops have yet been ordered to Sacra-
mento or Oakland. The War Denartm ent
says that regulars will not be sent until
the State troops are found to be inefficient
FEDERAL TROOPS IN THE STATE.
SAN Francisco. July Sin case Presi-
dent Cleveland should call upon the Fed
eral troops to quell the riot at Sacramento
he will have about / 900 soldiers in Cali
tornia at his command. These comprise
four troops of cavalry, nine batteries of
artillery and eleven companies of infan-
try. The present location Of these troops
is as follows At San Francisco and inn
mediate vicinity, nine batteries of artil-
lery and two companies of infantry; at
Los Angeles. six companies of infantry:
at Benicia two mpanies of infantry: at
Seauoia National Park, one troop of cav
airy: at Yosemite National Park, one
troop of cavalry; at Gilroy, TWO troops of