Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-12
WENT DOWN With A BRIDGE
Strikers Accused of Saving
of the Bridge Orders.
Judge Ross Instructed the roderai
Grand Jury That Railroad. Can
Make VI Train. n. They>peem
FIT nnd III Any ords~.

San Francisco. July ii.-Fcr over
twenty-four hours the United States
regulars have been on the field in
northern California. but the railroad
blockade has not been broken In fact,
tile situation there IL deemed more
serious than q has heen heretofore.
Human llfe has been faorifie,d at Sac
ranento In n horror which the strikers
are accused ef having perpetrated,
Al Of the victims but one
were soldiers. II Is clear that the
strikers realize that the f,iiy OF openly
resisting the army. as they have re-
sisted all municipal and state authors
tics. and that the more barbarous ami
more deadly tactics or guerilla warfare
arc TO be resortcd to. Twice during
,he day were the troops ambushed.
The nrst Rttnck frum urdcr cover waa
carly IN the morning. AT o'clock
Colonel Graham landed Mt Sacramento
with II force OF 500 regulars. No .f-
fort waa made TO resist their progress.
The troops marched direct ~ The South
ern Pacific depot aud took possession
% the buildings and railroad A few
hundred persons gathered at the de-
pot, but dispersed when ordered 10 do
20. AZ The wharvea u detachment OF
state militia had been ieft to guard tho
water front, The regular troops wors
no sooner out OF sight than this little
band Of militia was fired upon with
rifles ~ a force Of twenty-five men,
who were concealed In the bushes ON
the opposite Ride OF the river. Tho
m,litiHinen returned The fire and about
Wv shots were exchanged across tile
river baiore the attacking party fled
A Japanese boy who was on the river
bank WAS Killed by a bullet from the
rhlitia. None ot the attacking party
were approhended. Under rhe cover
NJ the United States troops tho railroad
officials went into the yards und RI
Fumcd work unInuiustcd. The tracks
were cleared and trains made up. Al
noon II train was dispatched for oak
land undci q strong military guard.
AmonB the crowds of strikers In the
streets were men who openly boosted
that the train would never reach Oak
land, but 40 one spoke Knowingly An
hour later when the news came back
to Sacramento OF IA horrible railroad
wreck In which at least four men had
" denying that the men were strikers
VINO had sawed away The supports OF
the railroad bridge Until the wreck
rrs now at work fhal1 Lave repaired
the damage done to the tresile no
trains can be run over that line. Al
Oakland today the outlook was also
warllke. An extra force OF 100 special
policemen and depuIlos had been sworn
IN The railroad officials were making
preparations early In the day to start
trains simultaneously with those sent
out from sacramento. After all the
engines that had been run out were
all Killed. The strikers withdrew. Then
came the news of the disaster near Sac
raincnto. Mnen DivlriUn Supefintend.
ont Wlldfr heard that she Tram had
been wrecked he stopped further pre-
parations.
1--WE want TO know where we stand"
he said, before we 10 ahead. II BUSH
whacting Is now 10 prevail we do not
propose to send our men out ana jeop-
artllse their lives.'
AZ yet no marines from Mare Island
have been landed nt Oakland a trhin
was also sent down the Sonona valley
from Caligtoga this morning, but II
was stopped at Vallejo where stiksrJ
Killed tho engine,
Tonight trains are running In NoIih-
ern California only ON the coast civiH-
ION ECthcr IN san ffhnclhtp or nj
San Jose did the strikers cause any
disturbance during the day.
Al Los Angeles the blockade appears
TO have been officially broken after the
slight disturbances At tina, ?nin. On
Tuesday night This morning tho
wrecked cars were cleared away anc
trains went on time, guard of troops
accompanying the overland. On tho
Southern Pacific local trains we're held
until the wrecked trains could he got
ten out Of the way. This southern
Pacific overland train from the east
arrived In Los Angeles at . o'clock
In the morning under a military guard.
Another overland ira n. similarly
guarded. WINS dispat ,hs1 At noon.
when the United 5ta,sB district
court convened at Los Angeles this
morning Judge Ross called the grand
Jury and referred briefly TO the wreck
ing OF cars In the iailroai yards IN
Tuesday night. lie toll them q in-
diet all tho parties IN ~ found vioiat-
ing the law. Judge Ross also charged
the jury relative TO the obstruction OF
the mails and interstats commerce. He
declared that the roads under the