The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-18
Trainload of Fruit Sent East from Sac
ramentO Yesterday. and Passenger
Trains Moving More Freely.
MANY MEN INUNDATED
Conference of Officials and Repre-
representatives. of Strikers.
Dynamite Placed on the Track at Two
Places-Engine Partly Demolished
General Strike News.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-THE South
ern Pacific company continues TO run pas
senger trains more or less regularly during
the hours of daylight, but all night trains
are still abandoned. For the present but
one west-bound and one east-bound over
land train a day will be run on the Ogden
route. Nonunion train crews are not flock
ing to division headquarters, and this is
probably the reason why so few freight
trains are being moved The first fruit
train dispatched for the East since the
strike was ordered by Debs was sent out
of Sacramento this morning.
At Sacramento the only exciting incident
of the day was the dispatching of train
bearing sixty United States regulars to
Dunsmuir, on the oregon branch. The
company's agent at Dunsmuir reported
that the strikers there were becoming ugly.
The strikers at Sacramento continue active.
however. Yesterday several hundred men
who had obeyed the order to strike re-
turned to work in the machine shops. This
morning most of them remained away.
The men have been intimidated by the
strikers and feared violence at the hands
OF the A. r. u. when they went back to
work this morning. Vice President Towne,
of the Southern Pacific, posted a notice
be reopened tomorrow and that protec-
ton would be afforded all men who de-
sired to return to work.
Mr.. Towne also publicly denies the pub
lished statements that men returning to
work are compelled TO sign an agreement
to stand aloof from all labor unions. lie
declares that the company simply insists
that its employees shall have nothing to 10
with the A. r. L.
In Oakland. as we'll as in Sacramento, the
railroad officials are meeting with difficulty
in getting enough men to run their shops
and man their trains The strikers have
been pretty successful in intimidating the
men who otherwise might have stepped in
to the vacant positions. To-day, however,
a few more men returned. Many of these
men were escorted to and from their work
by troops of cavalry. The passage of
these odd-looking professions through the
streets of Oakland afforded about the only
excitement at that point to-day. One man,
supposed TO be a striker. and in whose pos
session several sticks of dynamite were
found. was arrested near the railroad
yards by soldiers and taken to the city
prison. The strikers to-day instituted ha-
beas corpus proceedings to recover Edward
Jost, one of their leaders, who is locked
by soldiers. Jost, disguised as a sailor,
was arrested last night. The soldiers found
him crouching under a Pullman car in
the railroad yards.
The railroad company's pay car. bearing
over $4,000, passed down the Oakland mole
to-day and through the city. disbursing
wages for May and June. Strikers who
came to the car were told to decide wheth-
er they would return to work or not. If
they elected to return their May wages
were paid them. If they refused every dol
lar that the company owed them was
handed out. The pay car will proceed by
easy stages into the San Joaquin valley,
along all the branches. thence to Los An
geles, to Yuma and eastward as fan: as FL
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