The morning call., 1894-07-15
BREAKING UP.
The Oakland Blockade
Relaxing.
LOCALS RUN LAMELY.
The First Freight Stirs
Resentment.
A "SCAB" FIREMAN BEATEN.
Tons of Obstructive Matter on
the Track.
ALL THE COAST DIVISION OPEN.
First Bitterness of the Strike Begin
ming to Be Felt by the
A. K. u. Men.

In special sense it may be said that the
strike is only beginning in Oakland. 1t is
a mistake to believe that IL has been on
there for over two weeks 1t only looked
that way. The fact is that it just began
yesterday, and from present indications it
will take all the armies of all the United
States and the National Guard of CalifOr-
MIA thrown in to move each and every train
the Southern Pacific sends out.
The company started its locals and ran
them - after and with great difficulty
from early morning and it sent cut some
way trains, but there was no telling how
far they got. The militia showed up on
several occasions; the train that started
| from Los Angeles Thursday morning got
in with militia from Bakersfield :;
the United States Artillery showed
up, with its hospital corps. and several
9th er shows of strength were made on be-
half of the company. Yet. to a man with
| half an eye, the strike is just beginning in
this section.
The strikers cosxed firemen off the trains,
USED moral suasioD, backed with force.
" it'll good effect on others, and in one in
stance some of them battered another in
a way TO make him unrecogniZa BILE by his
mother after they got through with him.
They ripped the air pipes on several trains :;
they stood around and jeered the regula r
army, the militia, the deputies and the
police; they piled distractions on the
tracks and they quit only when they were
satisfied that The company had gained
nothing by its days work.
During the day it became necessary to
bring out Gating-guns and make a dis play
of rifles and cartridges, not 10 speak of
the hospital squad, against the crowd; and
even in the face Of this the strikers went
along and did what work they thought
! was necessary to delay if not to stop the
CARS
The biggest excitement of the day &C.
Cured between 2:3O o'clock and 80 in
the afternoon, and the scene changed from
Seventh and Cedar streets. by jarky and
rocky stages, along the tracks till the sta
zion at West Berkeley was reached, when
the freight train, around which the tur-
TOil centered. was sent ahead on the main
track under the escort of some of the
Bakersfield militia.
Shortly after noon the Southern Pacific
officials made up their minds that they
would send out a freight train to Men
| dota. Thirty-nine cars, which had been
| lying in the yards TOR weeks, were made
up, Master Mechanic Mckenzie had sue
ceeded in getting a man named Jim Haley
to fire il, and a message was sent up town
! for Billy Ford to run the engine. Ford
| showed up and fatty refused 10 go out.
| Then Engineer Billy Marks was sent for
| and placed in charge of engine 1716, which
| had been selected to haul the freight.
! At 2:15 O'Clock the train started from
! the Peral,a-street yards. All along the
! line tho strikers and their sympathiZers
were gathered, a very large number of
! women being noticeable. The long train
crawled along undisturbed, except by the
| jeers of the crowd, until the engine showed
| its nose at Seventh street. There about
400 people were assembled. The engine
was putting slowly along it being evident
that the green fireman didn't know much
about the business and steam was low.
The engine crossed all right ard the first
car and the second Then several forms
were seen to leap out of the crowd and IN
quick movements of some kind and the
next second the train came to a dead stop,
the air exnausting through the opened
air-pipes with rush.
In second a dozen men jumped into
the cab from either side. The unlucky
fireman was grabbed from both sides and
pulled and hauled for moment to and
fro. Then one side gave way and Haley
came out on the right side of the ca with
Jerk. Before he landed on the ground
twenty clenched fists had landed on his
face and head and twenty men were on
his PROSTATE body as it struck the
ground.
Police Officer Curtis, who was on the
cab. jump down at this juncture, gun in
one hand and club in the other, and began
slashing away right and left in the crowd
II was a miniature Donnybrook for
moment or two and then the assailants of
| Haley parted. He rose to his feet, his
| clothes torn and tattered, his nose broken
! and blood streaming from a dozen wounds
| in his head. He made run as soon as he
reached bis feet ana was flying for lis
life with dozen strikers after him. By
this time several deputies and Officer
Curtis were after Haley and soon sur
rounded him, keeping the second or wd of
assailants at bay. The battered fireman
was taken back to the cab and was about
to mount it again when Engineer Marks
told him he would be better off to keep
away. At this time President r berls
Of the A. r. u. came up and taking Haley
10 one side handed him So to keep him
going. The man left to wash up his bat
tered countenance
When this excitement had subsidized the
crowd became jubilantly aware of the fact
that the brakes had been set and was GER
tain that, without fireman, the train
could not move. Its length extended
across the Seventh-street and the First
street tracks, and while it stood there it
effectually blockaded traffic on the Oak
land and Alameda locals. Engineer Marks
took things easy in his cab. although the
remarks from the crowd were not at all
complimentary. Once he took the shovel
ana threw some coal into the fire, and
chorus of "Scab! scab!' went up from the
observant crowd.
The engine stood and so did the crowd.
the latter with no particular object in
view and mt having the least idea OF