The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-07-12

have been on the field in northern Cali
fornia, but the railroad blockade has not
been broken. In fact the situation today
Is deemed more serious than it has been at
any time heretofore.
Human life has been sacrificed at Sacra-
mento in horror which the strikers are
accused Of having perpetrated. 1t is clear
That the strikers realize the folly Of
openly resisting the United States army
as they have resisted all municipal and
state authorities and that the barbarous
and more deadly tactics of guerilla war
tare are to be resorted to.
Twice during yesterday the troops were
ambushed. The first attack from under
cover was early in the morning. At
o'clock Colonel Graham landed in Sacra-
mento with force Of over 600 regulars.
No effort was made to resist their pro-
gress. The troops marched direct to the
Southern Pacific depot and took possess
sion of the buildings and railroad yards.
A few hundred people gathered at the
depot dispersed when ordered TO do So At
! the wharves a detachment Of state militia
| had been left to guard the water front
The regular troops we're no sooner out Of
sight than this little band of militamen
was fired 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 exchanged across the
river before the attacking party fed. A
| Japanese boy who stood on the river bank
| was killed by a bullet from the militia.
| Some of the attacking party were appre-
| hended.
Under cover Of the United States troops
| the railroad officials went into the yards
| and resumed work unmolested The tracks
were cleared and trains were made up. At
noon a train was dispatched for Oakland
under a strong militia guard. Among the
| crowds of strikers in the streets there
were men who openly boasted 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 horrible railroad
wreck, these same men were as loudly de-
nying that the men were strikers who had
sawed away the supports of the railroad
bridge. The disaster at the bridge caused
the railroad company to cease its efforts
to move trains out of Sacramento Until
the wreckers now at work shall have re-
I paired the damage to the trestle no trains
can be run over that line.
The latest information in regard to the
wreck is that the strikers sawed the sup
ports of the trestle, but left the rails in
tact As soon as the train went on the
| bridge it was ditched, and the strikers i'm
mediately opened fire from ambush with
| Winchesters. The dead are Engineer
| Samuel B. Clark and three private sol
| diers named Byrne, Lubberding and
! Clark The wounded are: Private Daum-
| Ter, injured about the head; Private Will
! son, left leg seriously lacerated; Private
| Dugan, left arm cut off; Private Ellis, in
! ternally injured. General Graham has
| dispatched troop of cavalry to the scene.
The city is practically under martial
! law. Sheriff O'Neil last night arrested
! S d. Worden on suspicion of being i'm
! picated in the derailment Of the train. He
! has been quite prominent in labor circles,
and was recently sent as a delegate to the
! Chicago convention. The sheriff has also
| arrested G. G. Green, William Burt and
| H. +. Bodner, alleged strikers, for com
| plicity in the wrecking Of the train.
! At Oakland the outlook was also war
| IKE. The railroad officials were making
| preparations early in the day to start
trains simultaneously with those sent out
from Sacramento. After the full force Of
| deputies had arrived a band of strikers
charged into the yards. After all the en-
gines that had been run out were killed
the strikers withdrew Then came news
of the disaster near Sacramento. When
Division Superintendent Wilder heard
that the train had been wrecked he STOP
ped further preparations
I'VE want to know where we stand, " he
said, before we go ahead. If bushwhack-
ing is now to prevail, we do not propose
to send our men out and ieopardize their
| lives"