The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-12
A TRAIN DITCHED.
Three Soldiers and an Engine

in the derailment of the train two
miles and half below the city this
afternoon.
The wounded are:
Private Daumler, injured about the
head.
Private Wilson, left leg seriously
lacerated.
Private Dugan, left arm cut off.
Private Ellis, internally injured.
1t is believed that Daumler cannot
survive his wounds.
Shortly after o'clock this morning,
the steamers Alameda and Acme, carry
ing the regular troops, steamed up the
river and landed at the levee. They
were met by several companies of
militia, who had been ordered to keep
the crowd back, fearing an attack by
the strikers and their sympathizers;
Shortly after o'clock, the regulars
and marines marched to the depot
headed by Colonel Graham and staff.
There was a rush of spectators to the
depot, but they were quickly dispersed.
The strikers had abandoned the situa-
ton. and were no where to be seen.
Sentries were at once detailed to keep
the crowd at a safe distance, and the
gatling guns were placed in position.
erintendent Fillmore had conference
with Colonel Graham, and when it was
concluded the latter ordered his Of
ficers to drive every one out OF the de-
pot including newspaper reporters.
Division superintendent Wright, with
the aid of a switch engine, then cleared
the main track and orders were issued
to take the eastern overland, which mas
been DELAYED here since the Inaugural
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Samuel Clarke, one of the Oldest
engineers in the employ of the COM
pany. took charge of the engine.
Acting under instructions from
Colonel Graham, soldiers belonging to
battery L, Fifth United States artillery,
accompanied the train. AS the train
pulled cut of the depot there was
silence among the strikers, who. We're
evidently not in a happy mood, a2u
! frequently limited that the train would
not reach San Francisco. Such proved
the truth. Shortly after the train left
the depot word was received here that
lit had been fired upon by the strikers
land ditched. II was reported that En-
lgineer Clarke was Killed by bullet
and several regulars perished in the
wreck.
Later advices. however, show that not
a shot was fired.
The strikers had unspiked the rails
for distance of about 100 feet and COW
cred their dastardly work with sand.
Engineer Clarke, notwithstanding
that he was on the alert for such cow
ardly tactics, plunged into the trap.
The engine was overturned and several
cars We're upset. Engineer Clarke was
killed and Privates Byrne, Lubberding
and Clark met with similar fate
Private Daumler. who was also in the
engine when it upset, was seriously in
jured about the head
Private Ellis was hurt internally and
| is likely to die.
| Shortly after the report that the train
| had been derailed, Division Superin-
tendent Wright ordered the wrecldng
crew to the scene.
General Graham also sent a company
! of cavalry to head off the strikers
Shortly after o'clock this afternoon
| the wounded men were brought to this
city and Immediately taken to the rail
road hospital, where their injuries were
dressed by DR.. Huntington.
| The regulars are in an ugly mood, or
account of the death and injury tc
their comrades, and seem anxious fol
skirmish with the strikers. Many OF
them claim that General Superintend-
ent Fillmore assured General Graham
| that the road had been carefully gone
over and further declared that he
! knew the strikers would not resort t.
iany desperate measures to win the
strike. 1t was rot until he had assured
General Graham of the supposed gooC
condition of the road that the latter
| consented to send his men to assist the
! train to San Francisco.
The Usual Denial.
Harry Knox, the leader of the strik
ers, has issued the following:
Il desire to state, in behalf of the A
r. u, that this order had not the re
motest connection with the ditching o.
the train between Sacramento and Da
visville this afternoon, by which sew
eral people lost their lives. We con
denim this act as outrageous and bar
barous, and entirely contrary to The
spirit of the A. r. u, which is engaged
in an honorable struggle in the interes
of labor, and is opposed to violence Oh
! the sacrifice of human life. If this ac
were done by synpathizers, we regre
it the more, as it is calculated to in
jure rather than help us. We sincere
ly trust that this first act of violence
will be the last"
Orders were given this evening to eX
tend the guard lines to 1 street, fully
a block from the depot This is to pre-
vent the strikers from getting near the
company's property.
General Graham has detailed 1 troop
Fourth cavalry, to patrol the railroad
track in the vicinity of the wreck an(
to arrest all suspicious characters TIL,
/ men IN the troop are bitterly incenseC
against the strikers since the derailins
OF the train and their comrades at I'M
depot predict that they will deal severely
with any of the strikers they may en-
counter.
The regulars can be heard DISCUSSING
the affairs on all sides. and it is eviden
from their conversation that they ar,
eager for an engagement with the en-
envy.
They say that they came here to dc
fair fighting and not to be killed like ra t.
in q trap, and they do not propose t,
submit to that kind of treatment.
An examination of the bridge revealed
the fact that one of the stringers hat
been cut off and a small piece of Woo
substituted in such q way that would
fall through as soon as a heavy weigh
passed over the rail.
Two men have been arrested on sus
picion of having been concerned in tn
! wreck. They are now in the guard house
They were arrested near the scene o
the wreck by a deputy marshal. Engi
neer Mccoy, who was on the train, say
the men just before the tram left tn
track and pointed them out to the off
GERS. They were heavily armed whel
arrested.
The whole depot has been cleared. AM
the picket line has been extended to
street, a block north of the depot. TIL
picket line now surrounds the depot a
a distance of about a block in all iii
rectionS.
There have been rumors of dynamit
buried in the depot, and it Is to avoi
all danger of explosion that the depot i
guarded.
The city is practically under martha
law. Marshal Baldwin this afternoon is