The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-12
DASTARDLY WORK
IN SACRAMENTO.
A Train With u. S. Regulars
Aboard Derailed.
FOUR VICTIMS OF
FIENDISH STRIKERS.
OTHERS ARE INJURED AND WILL
PROBABLY DIE.
Trains Are Ditched at East Oakland
Feeling Among Railway EN-
pIoyees on Account of the Out
rage is Intense, and the Engi-
neers Are More Bitter Against the
A. r. U. Than Ever Before-T'he
beginning of the End.

BeEinning of the End.
San Francisco, July 11.-For over
twentv-four hours United States regu-
lars have been in the field in Northern
California, but the railroad blockade
has not been broken.
In fact. the situation tonight is
deemed more serious than it has been
at any time heretofore. Human lives
have been sacrificed at Sacramento in
a horror which the strikers are accused
of having perpetrated. All of the vic
tins but one were soldiers.
AS a result, the feelings of the
strikers and the soldiers in the field
have been wrought upon until the men
composing the contending forces are
not only as determined as before, but
ugly and desperate. 1t is clear that the
strikers realize the folly of openly re-
sisting the United States army, as they
have resisted all municipal and state
authorities. From the dastardly tao
tics employed this afternoon at Sacra-
mento against the regulars and the
railroad company it is apparent, how
ever, that the more barbarous and
more deadly tactics of guerilla warfare
are to be resorted to.
Twice during the day were the troops
ambushed. The first attack from I'M
der cover was early in the morning.
At 6 o'clock Colonel Graham landed at
Sacramento with his force of over 600
regulars. No effort was made to resist
their progress.
The troops marched direct to the
Southern Pacific DEPOT and took pos
yards. The few hundred people gath
cred at the depot dispersed when or
dered to 90 so. AT the wharves a de-
taChment Of state militia had been left
to guard the We er font. T'l,a ~egular
troops were no C1@re" 0It OF sight than
this little band of militiamen was fred
upon with rifles by a force of some
twenty-five men, who were concealed
in the bushes on the opposite side of
the river. The militiamen returned the
fire, and about 200 shots were ex-
changed across the river before the
attacking party fed. A Japanese boy
who stood on the river bank was killed
by bullet from the militia. None of
the attacking party were apprehended.
DastardIy Doings.
After this skirmish it was hoped hos
tilities had ended Under cover of the
United States troops, the railroad Off
Gals went into the yards and resumed
work unmolested. The tracks were
cleared and trains were made up. At
noon passenger train was dispatched
for Oakland under a strong militia
guard. With the crowds of strikers in
the streets there were men who openly
boosted that the train would never
reach Oakland, but no one thought they
spoke knowingly.
An hour later, when the news came
back to Sacramento of a horrible rail-
road wreck, in which at least four men
had persisted, these same men were as
loudly denying that the men were
strikers who had sawed away the sup
ports of the railroad bridge and caused
the plunge to death.
The disaster at the bridge caused the
railroad company to cease it's efforts
to move trains out of Sacramento.
Until the Wreckers now at work shall
have repaired the damage done to the
trestle, no trains can be run over that
line, but whether the company will try
to run other trains out of Sacramento
tomorrow remains to be seen.
At Oakland today the outlook was
also warlil1e An extra force of $50
special policemen and deputy sherifTs
had been sworn in. The railroad Off
the day to start trains simultaneously
with those sent out from Sacramento
The strikers resolved to "kiH' the
engines that had been fired up.
Before the full force of deputies had
arrived band of strikers charged into
the yards on the mole. They were re-
pulsed. They then waited for rein
forcementS from the Alameda mole.
When more men arrived the strikers
charged again and this time the depu-
ties gave way. After all the engines
that had been run out were killed the
strikers withdrew.
Then came news of the disaster near
Sacramento. When Division Superin-
tendent Wilder heard that the train
had been wrecked he stopped further
preparations.
Bushwha cl<ing Tactics.
we want to know where we stand, y
said he, before we go ahead. If bush
whacking is now to prevail, we do not
propose to send our men out and jeop-
ardize their lives"
As yet no marines from Mare Island
have been landed at Oakland.
A train was also sent down from the
Sonoma valley branch from Calistoga
this morning, but it was stopped al
Vallejo, where strikers killed the en-
CINE.
Tonight, trains are running in north
ern California only on the coast divi-
sion Neither in San Francisco or at
San Jose did the strikers cause any
disturbance during the day.
At Los Angeles. the blockade ap-
pears to have been effectually broken.
After the slight disturbances at that
point on Tuesday night the guard in
the yards was increased. This morn
ing the wrecked cars were cleared
away and trains went out as usual. On
the Santa F'e road, all regular trains
went out on time, a guard of troops
accompanying them overland
On the Southern Pacific, local trains
were delayed in the morning until the
wrecked cars in the yards could be got
out of the way. The Southern Pacific's
first overland train from the east ar
rived in Los Angeles at o'clock in the
morning, under a military guard An
eastern overland train similarly guard.
ed was dispatched at noon.
Rights of Railways.
When the United States 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 railroad yards on
Tuesday night. He told them to indict
all the parties they found violating the
law. Judge Ross also charged the jury
again relative to the obstruction of the
mails and the interstate commerce
They declare that the railroads under
the law were obliged to carry The
mails on their passenger trains anC
| that q failure to run those trains die
not constitute an offense. If they raj