The morning call., 1894-07-13

tendent Wilder and Master Mechanic
Mckenzie went out on the engines A.
the engines approached the head Of the
mole it was seen that crowd of perhaps
300 had gathered around the derailed en-
CINE. At this point occurs the Junction
with the line TO the Peralta-street yards
Captain Wilson had arranged his polce
officers along the Peralta-street yards
earlier in the day in very sklliiui man
ner and was awaiting the arrival OF tue
wTeekirg train. No demonstration save
little hooting was made, and Inc wreck
ing engines backed up to the oeFaleu
engine, hooked on. backed up DIT 50 as
to run her on the false SWITCH, lAeb "eut
ahead and ran the engine into the Yards'
In the meantime Charley Han roue up ou
horseback and an alteration TOOK place
between him and the Sheriff and Deputy
Kellogg. They refused to allow him
IN mass further, and the deputies
proed the strikers further back. Then
! switch 1927 came back. Jeers and boots
hapan as soon as Jeffers was recognized.
Hall rode up to the cab and abused him
roundIy. McKillican and Kellogg tried to
farce Hall back, and then superintendent
Wilder called to the Sheriff: Mr.. Sheriff.
this is our land and l want these men to
leave IT,"
VERY we'll" said the Sheriff. The
deputies got their clubs handy, the police
drew theirs, and Captain Wilson gave the
order for the strikers 10 fall back. The
line Of deputies and police moved sOlidly
against the pack men and they fell back
sullenly. The engine was hitched on and
an attempt was made to back up. At this
juncture Hall. WHO had dismounted,
yelled out, TO the roundhOuse. boys"
and darted down Cedar street, followed by
a crowd. Captain Wilson started down
toward the yards, calling to his officers. a
wild run Of few minutes followed, police
men brandishing their clubs and the depu-
ties in the Peralta-stTeet yards closing up
their ranks. Hall broke through the
deputies, followed by the strikers 4 half
dozen officers jumped Hall and rolled him
over and over. Captain Wilson swung
round the corner with his officers and Chief
Schaffer, on horseback, dashed up with his
officers, and the strikers found themselves
confronted with a solid front of blue.
They Quailed, were hustled, cntfed and
josted. More deputies ana police tackled
them in the rear on Cedar street and they
we're completely routed. Hall, IN the grasp
of three policemen, with his face bleeding
and his coat half-otf, was led down Cedar
street a captive. a rumor gained ground
that a general descent was TO be made on
the yards and Captain Wilson had his men
drawn up at the weak spot. The attack
did not come. 1t was found that Hail. 5
dash into the yards was ruse to draw the
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other strikers could attack the engineers
and Kill the engines. But numbers were
greater than strategy.
While Wilson headed off the Cedar
street raid McKilican and his hall hun
dred deputies stayed stubbornly by the
engines and the strikers could not reach
them. Then the strikers tackled a de-
tached car near the Cedar-street crossing.
They were on the point of oveTturning it
had it. in fact. at an angle Of fOrty-hVe de-
grees-when Chief Schaffer returned from
the raid, and catching sight Of the mis-
chief cont emplated dashed his horse madiy
into the crowd and scattered it like sheep.
a cObblestone thrown by deXterOus hand,
however, passed close by the Chiefs head,
and had 1t struck him would have ended
his days. 1t missed him, though, and de-
mOished a car window.
Part of the crowd remained around the
car, and its numbers were soon swelled by
througs OF people, mostly men, who came
troOping down Seventh street The peO-
pie, strikers and all. were FESTIVE. and
they talked excitedly of the situation.
Their hatred of the company and its
greedy methods made them bitter in their
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police, who, they claimed. showed by their
actions that they had been subsidized
The i'll feeling grew and grew until it
fairly ragged, and inactiOn became positively
unbearable. They must do something
and the started to do it.
They started for the coalcar which has
stood across the tracks with the expressed
determination of dumping her over. Not
a policeman or a deputy was within a
hundred yards Of them as they lined up
to the car. They heaVed and grunted
with a will, but the car sat lower and was
harder to swing than the passenger. They
had raised 1t up nearly TO the desired point
after a few moments, however, and were
just about 10 give it the final shove, when
Sheriff McKllican was seen driving in his
buggy furiously toward them. With one
accord every man let go OF the car and it
came down on the trucks with a crash, it
being almost miracle that some one was
not hurt in the jam.
The Sheriff was in a sort Of TeprOachful
mood and chided the men for what they
were about to do.
Tom Reilly. an ex-Tailroad man. who
appeared to be quite popular with the
boys, got alongside the Sheriff and called
out: "Don't stop to interfere with a man
Ike Bob McKilican, boys. He's all right"
Yes, he's all right; but be belongs 10
the same party as Cleveland and Olney,"
yelled out striker.
That was too much for McKllican. He
grew red in the face. and, turning on the
man who said it. be cried, You had better
keep your mouth shut, or I'll see that
you do"
Tip his buggy over, and him. too"
shouted another. Il was evident that Nc
Killican's popularity was waning.
Just some of you try to tip the buggy
over, that's all" he concluded. and, as
Captain Wilson and three officers came up
and ranged themselves alongside the car,
he drove off.
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