The herald., 1894-07-07
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

Incidents at the Arcade and San Fer
nando Street Dspots.
The running Of several local trains was
the only feature OF interest at the Arcade
| depot yesterday. There were but very
few people about the depot during the
morning. but as the day wore along the
crowd of morbidly curious ones who form
fringe around the entrances to the
depot gradually increased, until there
were 500 people on hand eager for the
next move on the part of the Southern
Pacific or the striking employees.
First Lieutenant Nat Phister and Com.
pany ID OF the regulars got turn OF duty
in the shape of an excursion over to La
Grande depot OF the Santa Fe during the
morning, and the movements of the
troops excited good deal of interest.
Shortly after o'clock Lieutenant Gle
man and Is men boarded an electric car
and started out to the Buena Vista street
bridge, where they waited for the arrival
OF the Santa Barbara train, which ar
rived a few minutes later. On it's stop
ping the soldiers were posted at the
entrances OF each car and the train was
run down the main track past River
station. There were about 2.C00 people
lined along San Fernando street, but no
demonstration was made save few de-
riaive shouts and cries of'sscab." The
train moved slowly by and landed in
the Arcade depot without an incident
worthy of note. There were 20 passen-
gers on board and five deputy United
States marshals.
During the afternoon Gen. E. P. John
son, in command of the National guard,
was called To the depot for consulta-
tion with Superintendent Muir and 9TH
er Southern Pacific officials. The point
in discussion was the advisability OF
moving the overland trains under the
guard OF companies of the National guard
of southern California. There were
some legal questions raised which pre-
vented any definite action being taken
yesterday, but it is possible that some-
thing may be done in this direction this
morning.
Three local trains were sent out from
the Arcade depot during the afternoon.
The Santa Ana train, which arrived
with it's regular crew at 4 O'Clock, was
rigged out again for q return trip to that
point, at left at 5 80 O'Clock. A few
minutes later engine No. 1874 backed
into the depot and was attached to three
coaches and baggage car for San Pedro.
The mail was placed in the baggage car
aud the train pulled out, with q few
nisses from the crowd of bystanders at
the south entrance OF the depot. A
short time later train OF the same
number of cars was sent to Santa Mon
ica. There were but few passengers ON
any of these trains, the public seeming
to be rather timid about travelling at
this time. There were United States
deputy marshals on all these trains.
Up at the San Fernando street station
several engines were cleaned up and
fred during the day, and G. 7. 3elcher.
with nine deputy marshals, was detailed
to guard the yard last night.
The feature around which clustered
the largest share OF interest at the
Arcade depot was the continued delay
in starting the overland train with q
Pullman car and the mails for San
Francisco. This train was booked to
start north on Thursday afternoon, but
when Colonel Shafter was requested to
pat company OF soldiers on board, he
said he would have to receive orders
from the war department in Washing
ton. -Four messages were sent to head
quarters, but no response was received
late yesterday afternoon, and the train
still stood within the confines of the
military camp. With quite number OF
passengers bound for northern points
on board in constant anticipation of get
ting away.
During the early hours OF yesterday
morning some of tte passengers made
forasing expedit on among the mess
kettles OF the soldiers and ate up all OF