The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-07
WESTERN GETS THROUGH
A TRAIN FROM GRAND JUNCTION
LAST NIGHT.
Delayed Senior ExcursiOnists and
the Colorado Ball TOssers Arrive
There Was No Trouble at the
Depot.

There was considerable excitement
and some apprehension of trouble when
I it became known that the Rio Grande
Western expected a special train to ar
rive from Grand Junction between s
and 9 o'clock last evening with de-
ayed passengers and mail. Captain
Donovan and a squad of six or seven
police officers went down to the depot
at o'clock and cleared the platform
of the strikers and loungers. There
was no resistance offered and the
strikers, about 100 or $50, ranged them
selves in line along the sidewalk at the
| north end of the depot and quietly
watched the train steam in The en-
frances to the station were guarded by
police officers but no effort was made
to cross the line. The passengers went
up town, the mob soon dispersed and
the police went away, leaving every
thing quiet Among the passengers on
| board were Seniors eXcursionists from
Leadville, about 63 all told, and the
Leadville base ball club. The latter
was to have arrived in time to play a
game of ball on July with the Salt
Lake City club, but were stranded at
Grand Junction.
Seniors eXcursionists and the base
ball club left Leadville on Monday
evening, the former under the manage
ment of Mr.. F. B. Cook, formerly an
employee of The Herald in this city.
They reached Grand junction at l
o'clock on Tuesday morning, where
| their train was stopped by the strikers.
and they were held at that point until
1850 o'clock yesterday morning.
Between sixty and seventy deputy
marshals arrived at Grand Junction
from Denver on Wednesday evening,
put could do very little with the crowd
OF strikers, who numbered between 300
and 400. The townspeopIe refused to
feed the deputies, and they could get
no accommodation at the hotels and
were forced to take possession of the
eating house at the depot and cook
their own meals
At attempt was made at Newcastle
to derail the train on which the deputies
came. The ringleaders of the derailers
were arrested and brought to Grand
junction where their friends demanded
their release but they are still in GUS
tody.
= train was started from Grand
Junction for the east on Thursday with
Master Mechanic Humphreys acting as
engineer and Superintendent Bryant, of
the Colorado Midland as fireman.
The passengers on the train which
arrived here from Grand Junction last
CNCIllIS WSIe IIlOIOuSuly ulSSuSIPQ with
their enforced lay over at the latter
place and were very pleased when the
engine pulled out at 1870 yesterday
morning headed for Salt Lake. Super
intendent Welby preceded the train in
his private car to see that the track
was clear. Mr.. Welby and Mr.. Snyder
stood at the rear end of the car Win
chesters in hand all the way from
Grand Junction to Helper where the
n ctD
by remaining there. The train brought
few pouches of mail which had been
laying at Grand Junction but there was
no general eastern mail. There was
one Pullman car on the train
Detective Franks who had been down
on the Union Pacific road to Oasis
Joined the Rio Grande Western train at
Provo. He said a Union Pacific stock
train came from Milford to Nephi and
that coal train was coming in on the
Union Pacific from Milford to Salt
Lake.