The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-14

/ SlraClOD, their attitude was not calculated
to impress the regulars with the propriety
of their presence there.
Captain Roberts Immediately halted the
engine Then shot is said by the regulars
to have been fired from somewhere, but
none of the men on the cars seem to have
been able to place the locality OF The
marksmen. This was going too far to
suit the regulars. They piled off their cars
and Immediately the crowd Of men and
boys from whose midst the stone had come
started to run down street.
| They were ordered to malt, and all
others present who did not run were
sternly commanded to throw up their
hands. They did this with alacrity, but
their fleeing friends declined to halt. The
regulars lined up hastily at the street
crossing and fired about dozen shots at
the fugitives
Half way down the street Charles
| Stewart threw up his hands and toppled
| forward upon the dusty roadway. An
other man. Frank Buckley. fell before he
| Dau gained much ground.
These were the only men hit in the
crowd making their escape from along
| Front street into j. But this did not con-
clude, but rather earnestly commenced the
small riot.
At the depot officers and men were up
and doing in a moment. They all wanted
crack at the men whom they consider in
some measure responsible for the terrible
death of their comrades at the treStle on
Wednesday afternoon. Company + Of
the Third Infantry. one of the National
Guard regiments of San Francisco, was
located just across the area in front OF the
depot In few minutes Captain Warren
had his men In line. and with bayonets
bristling in that same hot Sacramento
sun they trotted up Front street to
do bit of fighting themselves.
United States marines. under that
superb soldier, Lieutenant Draper, formed
quickly and ran in the direction of the
| shooting affair by the same road Barry
troop of the Fourth United States Cavalry
assembled before the depot, and, with in
strGctions from General Graham, the
troops went off at warm gallOp up Sec
ond street under command Of Lieutenant
Nolan. Great clouds of dust enveloped
the cavalrymen as they tore up this thor
0ughfare with cyclone-ike recklessness.
The streets were also thrOnged with an
excited multitude. Roberts men had al
ready fired, and their numerical strength
was not such that desperate mob could
not have annihilated them.
| Just at this juncture Warren of the
| Third California rushed out. Captain
Roberts regulars had driven the crowd
through Front street. and had taken up a
position extending along Front from di-
rectly before the ferry landing at K street,
nearly as far as the end of the J-street
crossing. Captain Warren mmed ately
formed part Of his company as line of
support directly behind r berts' force
| More of the Thirds men took up position
from the entrance to the ferry landing
across Front street and extending about
half block down K in the direction of
Second street.
On account of limited numbers Warren
his force farther down K street so as to
establish some sort of sentry line at the
approach through that thoroughfare to
Front street. This almost completely
which Roberts men were operating. From
the depot along Front street as far as K
the thoroughfares were deserted and were
patroled by the military. AT Front and
streets the regulars guard all entrances
and Warren's men, in cooperation with
Roberts, under the direction of Colonel
Barry, secured every entrance from K and
Front streets.
This successful com binaiion of regulars
and militia forces put an end to any dis
turbances possibly projected. Under this
arrangement Lieutenant Draper. with the
two companies of United States marines,
started off along Front street and then
secured that thoroughiare, which brought
them into }, where they we're enabled to
| sweep the entire front and dispense all
struggling groups OF strikers or sympa-
| thizers on the streets. Diapers men then
scattered through the streets and
| cleared all approaches to the strikers old
headquarters, where the shooting took
place, and to the depot below. The
prickly bayOnet was thrust through coat
tails with unmerciful energy and strength
of persuasion. Nolan's troopers scared
the life half out of every one in that part
| of town and Warren's miltiamen enthusi-
astically experimental with the triangular
steel. Then every one came back to the
| depot and soldiers and strikers settled
down to an interval of quiet. Over dozen
prisoners were brought in on fiatcars and
locked up at the depot.
Immediately after the regular troops had
| quit their firing Stewart and Buckley were
hurried off to the Receiving Hospital.
| There Surgeon Fowler attended to the
wounds of the unfortunate men and pro-
nounced Stewards fatal. This diagnosis
was realized this evening when Stewart
was reported dead.
About an hour before the mans death
he was visited by THE CALL CORE
| spOndent and Volunteered an explanation