The morning call., 1894-07-05
ALL LAY DOWN.
Living Lines Blocked
the Tracks.
STRIKERS IN EARNEST.
They Complete the Tie
-. up Over in Oakland.
AND THE s. P. GIVES 1T UP.
Engines Killed, Trains and Even
: the Ferries Stopped.
T. A REAL CRISIS APPROACHING.
The Railroad Relying Upon Force as
T.. Against the Moral Support
p: of the Public.
A REAL CRISIS APPROACHING.

The little ball of yarn Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company was completely
~, wound I'D On the Oakland mole yesterday.
3 Their engines lie dead at dozen points
in the wards. one OF their big steamers Is
p as dead as door nail at the slip and most
of the division heads were flying around
:. in that sort of a way which characteriZes
q chicken with its head cut off. The
strikers did part of it. employees that the
-. compaDv had left over from the night be-
fore did a little and the company did the
rest and the resting.
And all of it was done so quietly and
decently that nobody, not even the rail-
way officials, seemed TO have little bit of
kick. They had done the best they could
to prevent it. but, when it came to the
showdown, they gracefully curled up their
tails and let it go at that
Rumors of what might occur on the
mole yesterday were rife around the four
corners at the point the night before while
the Amer can Railway Union was in ses-
. sion. They were so vague. however. and
:. came from such non-autnorltative sources
- that but very little credence was placed in
them and nobody expected that the scenes
of yesterday would follow so quickly.
When they came they followed each
other so rapidly and every move at
tempted was accomplished so neatly and
completely that it took only a man with
half an eye to see that they had been clev-
eriy and carefully planned. There was
the finished work of the educated stage
:: mechanic IN the shifting of every scene,
and the dramatic effect in every instance
was perfect.
- The first move was on the Alameda
broad-gauge train into the mole, and
showed at once that the men had tired of
waiting for an opening. and were deter
mined to move boldly on the cOmpany's
: inner works. A crowd of strikers had as
sembed at the Cedar-street crossing Just a
p: few minutes before II 80 o'clock. when the
= Alameda train was due, bound for the
sheds. In a short time the putting of the
engine was heard and the American Rail-
. way Union volunteers were called for to
stop the train. About fifty of them who
were present in the crowd lined up across
the track and waited. The engine steamed
steadily on, the man in tower 2 gave the
signal, Track clear" and it began to look
as if the big iron machine would NOW
NAMED where it was. On came the en-
gine and firmly stood the fifty, not man
flinching. The grind of the wheels on the
rails could be distinctly heard. The gap
was closing up faster than the wind, and
then a strange thing happened.
Down on their backs over the rails.
stretched at full length. went half dozen
Of the strikers, and the brea.hs of the
spectators stopped for moment as their
hearts pumped big floods of blood to their
heads at the daring of the men. 1t was
a most powerfully startling piece of plan
ning most wonderfully and realistically
horrible in its terrible quiet ever witnessed
by any crowd of people. All was still
save the whirr of the wheels and the puff
fng of steam for a secoBd. The next in
slant the air went out on the brakes, the
lever was reversed and the train slowed
within ten feet Of the seIf-appointed vic
Tins to the Southern Pacific Juggernaut.
There was a sigh of relief from the
crowd, yell from the strikers as they
!. saw their work accomplished and jun ped
for the engine, while the men who had
dared so much to further the general plan
rose slowly from their recumbent posi-
tions. There was an evident paleness in
their faces. but it was the pallor Of calm
ness and desperation.
Onto the engine clam bered the men, from
% the rear and sides, over the tender. and
from both sides of the cab. Some ran
down between the car and the engine
head and broke the air. while others called
on the fireman, w. James, to come out.
He refused at first, and was promptly and
somewhat roughly hustled to the ground.
The train. with Engineer F. j. Clark in
the cab of the engine. was allowed to pro-
ceed to the yard and discharge its passsn-
gers.
While all this was going on up above.
another body of the strikers was busy at
the roundhouse and in the sheds. Sta
toned around the yards the company had
about halt of its 200 deputy Sheriffs. but
when about $50 strikers appeared in a
body at the dead line. the guards dis
creetly took the back tack, and the dele
CATION of the A. r. Z. proceeded at once to
the shops. The strikers entered by two
and threes and asked the men at work,
some forty in number, to leave their
work. Some few were little slow about
it, but the majority laid down their tools
as they were and walked for the doors.
They joined the strikers and shook hands
all around.
The delegation of American Railway
Union men then split up. some going to
the ronndhouse. where the fires were
drawn from the switch engines; others
into the sheds, where like service was
done for others. and small delegations
going after the men in the three towers t
induce them to lay eff.
Master Mechanic Mckenzie was the first
railroad official to express himself ON the
matter.
THAT settles it." he said "We'ye done
all we could. and now there's no more TO
do. The men have got possession of the
plant they've taken out forty of my men
and have succeeded. it looks, in tying
things up pretty tight"
A few minutes later party of the strik- |
ers got in the road OF the Berkeley train. |
took Fireman Loveland off in a pleasant
way and just left her enough steam to ger |
in to'the shed with her passengers.
They had the little ball of yarn in fair |
say to be wound up. and they proceeded |
=. 10 put a few more twists in it. From all |
directions came the strikers for pleas |