The morning call., 1894-07-01
FIREMAN BROWN OBJECTED.
ONE MORE PASSENGER LEFT,
The Oregon Train Leaving the Mole
Has Got as Far as
Woodland.

PORT Costa, June 30.-The strike
situation here this morning was un-
changed. Everything was quiet and both
sides seemed waiting for something to
turn up The arrival of the Los Angeles
train at 10 O'Clock was the first event to
break the monotony. The strikers were
on haad to try to induce the crew to leave
the train, but were unsuccessful.
a number of deputies had accompanied
the train from Oakland, and with those on
! board it proceeded on its way. This even
ing the San Ramon train leaving San Fran
cisco at p. NJ. passed through all right.
and at 6: 80 the Southern overland with a
! large train fully made up, including Pull
mans, arrived with q big passenger list.
! There was some vigorous talking to the
! fireman, but be held the fort and the
rain went on its way south. The main
| inter centered in the Oregon express
which was TO cross on the steamer Solano.
| The train. fully made up. arrived on timc
| heavily guarded by United States Mar
| shals, railroad detectives and the Sheriff
| and five deputies from Martinez Super
intendent Wilder and Master Mechanic
! Mckenzie were in the cab. The train was
! handled by TraiHmaster Syms and Yard
master Cook, with officers guarding every
| platform, as we'll as the front and rear
! The train proceeded very carefully on to
| the boat and was taken across to Benicia.
| There was no trouble and the strikers
| contented themselves by hootng and
whis.ling and calling the fireman "scab."
| This being the last passenger train for the
day the crowd dispersed and everything is
| quiet
| When the tie-up was ordered an east
| bound train containing six cars of fruit was
sidetracked here. To-day the steamer
Onward brought up lot of ice 10 re-ice
the refrigerator cars, but the strikers pre-
vailed on all the laborers engaged TO move
the ice TO quit work. The ice remained on
| the railroad wharf in the sun all after
| noon, but at o'clock the strikers gave
| their copsent-to its being moved, and /:
was placed in the refrigerators. thus saw
ing the fruit.
TRACY, June 30-The southern over
land got through here or time.
FRESNO, June 30.-At 500 o'clock train
| 10 pulled into Fresno, and every one who
could get to the depot was there. 1twas a
| hungry crowd, so far as a desire for news
| was concerned, for Fresno had seen no
! San Francisco papers for days. There
were only a few passengers on the train.
! and these were mostly local, but there
was one In the Pullman with ticket to
| Saugus. The Pullman on the train was
the car Buena Vista.
| Engine 1414 was backed down to take
| the train south and Assistant Superinten-
| dent Whitmer made the coupling, but did
| not make it properly. A car reparer,
| hearing the air escaping. rectiGed the mis-
take. But more serious hitch was
| to come. Fireman Elder was in the
| cab, and when the engine came down It
was at once surrounded by crowd nf
railroad men. and Elder. though he said
he did not 6slong to the A. r. u, was in.
duced to quit the cab, being given cheer
as he stepped down. Then Agent Frazier
hunted up Fireman Cornish. who would
| not go out and at length tried to prevail
upon Brown, who bad fired the train
from Lathrop, to go into the cab again.
Brown said he had been at Lathrop
| for four days with only canned
| goods to eat and as he wanted to get home
to Oakland he would 60 no further south
| He said that General Superintendent Fill
more had told him the Buena Vista was
his (Fillmore's) private car. Otherwise he
would not have brought the train down
ANYWAY.
Messengers were dispatched after differ
! ent firemeu. to the roundhouse and their
homes, but men could not be found. The
main crowd hung around the engine.
while others walked from the engine to
| the Pullman.
| Knots of men stood around waiting for
| a move of some kind. After a delay of
| two hours orders were given Engineer
| Hutchlns to sidetrack the train. Passeu-
| gers were notified the train would not 60
| ont tonight. When the engine was un-
coupled the crowd cheered and yelled. The
| engine backed to the roundhouse and the
crowd on each side of the track startad in
again and kept it up. When the engineer
| blew several blasts the crowd dispersed.
All trains are tied up on this division.
| The tranmen said no trouble was ex-
perienced ON the trip down. There were
| large crowds at all the stations.
| Fresno was crowded with strangers to-
| day. Early this morning teams and stages
began to arrive from outside towns-some
| from Visala and Hanford-all wanting
to catch the fiier or noon train to-day.
| Soon they found that all tbe trains were
tied up. The local liveTymen were ap-
pealed to, and two stageloads were made
I up through to Stockton. the fare being
$40. About 8 p. NJ. message was received
at Fresno that 10 had left Oakland.
At midnight Superintendent j. L. Fra
zier and Assistant Whitmer were still in
their office. Frazier, on being asked why
fremen to perform failed their duties said !:
'.There is no need to state the arguments
used to induce the men TO 60 work, be-
cause the arguments failed. l will say we
had a telegram urging the men to stand
with the Brotherhood's agreement with
the Southern Pacific Railroad. Only a
few belong TO the American Railroad
Union. and nearly all of these are men,
bers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen. Still they refused to assist in
taking out a train with Pullman at
tached."
The company has allowed the passengers
10 remain in the train. Several sections
In the Pullman are occupied and all is
quiet
WOODLAND. June 3O.-The Oregon ex-