The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-19
SEIZED A FREIGHT TRAIN,
An Industrial Company Try to
Move This Morning.
A Squad Of Policemen Forcibly Re-
move Them from the Train.
An Exciting Time at the San Fernando
Street Depot of thu Southern Pa
ciHc-ssLieutenant" Bernard
in Command.

Thirty members OF the Industrial
army captured Southern Pacific freight
trail the San Fernando street depot
at % o'clock this morning. The de-
tscl Mt was under command OF Lieu
tenn J. s. Bernard, who was carried
to III, receiving hospital at ! O'Clock in
an a parently badly injured condition.
caused by his forcible ejectment from
the train by the police.
Shortly before ! O'Clock Officer Nc
Lean telephoned to the station that 80
or 40 Commonwealers had taken posses-
sion OF the train and that the Southern
Pacific company wanted help to remove
them. Clerk Hensley immediately tele-
phoned Chief Glass, who responded by
ordering the police to remove the men
from the train by force or otherwise.
Sergeant Morton with o squad OF
policemen hurried to the scene in the
patrol wagon and found that the east
bound freight train, scheduled to leave
for Yuma at II :05, was in possession of
the Industrials. They were camped up
on top OF a Car loaded with perishable
goods, so that it was impossible to ''cut"
the car out and leave the men by this
means. They had their rolls of blsn-
kets and other email articles, aud, after
they were arrested, made the broad as
sertion that they were bound for Wash
ingtoh.
City Marshal Lorbeer of Pomona hap
pened to be going out on the freight
train w hon ~ con NJ 20 thu Inc
dustrials. They boarded the train at
Mission junction. The trainmen used
every endeavor to have the men leave
the car. but only met with curt
refussls. They even refused to talk.
and lay upon the car like q
lot Of dumb animals. They replied to
no questions. City Marshal Lorbeer,
seeing that he had boarded q seized
train, demonstrated with the men, but
to no purpose.
When it was found utterly impossible
to proceed without carrying the men,
the trainmen backed into the San Fer
naudo street depot yards and were pre-
pared to "tie up" for the night.
AZ soon az Sergeant Morton and his
officers reached the depot. he quietly
ordered the Industrials to leave the cars
without trouble. They said nothing.
The policemen mounted the cars, and
proceeded to forcibly eject the stubborn
on.to- W arlington agitators. Baggage
Of rolled blankets and the like few from
the cars like haystaoks in q Kansas
cyclone, and soon the policemen had the
cars cleared OF every thing except the
men. some OF whom now began to hustle
down in hurry. Most all the men lett
the train without being forcibly elected.
Lieutenant Bernard was the only one
who objected. He chung franticslly to
the car and had to be carried bodily
from the train. He moaned as if in
great agony, and when placed upon the
ground seemed exceedingly i'll. Some
OF his comrades yelled for a
doctor and some for water, claiming
the police had dubbed MIN. Sergeant
Morton ordered Bernard carried TO the
station where an examination bv Police
Surgeon Bryant showed that he was not
injured in the slightest and was only
acting in such q manner to gain Gym
patty. Bernard is the man who was in
the. San Bernardino county Jail with
Colonel. Vinette several weeks ago.
Sergeant Morton ordered the men
taken to the station. and in about 20
minutes the officers arrived at the sta
ton with IL of them, the rest OF the
party having got away after the round
up. They were motley looking set OF
men, nearly all of them young, and some
quite intelligent looking. They were
searched, and not above a dollar or two
was found on the whole lot. They gave
their names az follows:
Frank Sutton, James P. DAILY. Pat
Blanchard. r. Marsh, Louis Flatow,
VIM. Cook, Frank Hill. Met Golpf. Mike
Schmidt, M. Z. F. White. Christian
Peterson, l.. N. Case.
Clerk Hensley had them locked up for
the night, but was very much puzzled
what charge to put against them, and
finally concluded to wait until morning
to decide the matter.