St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-06
OWN THE COAST.
Strikers in Complete Control
Through California.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 5.-'rhe sew.
enth day of the great railroad strike
closes with the BLOCKADE more complete
I'm Northern California than 1t has been
at any time since DebS ordered the A..
R. U. men to tie up the Southern Pa
cific. AT Oakland and Sacramento the
embargo of the strikers is absolute. not
wheel being allowed to turn, and
at no other point in the state
is the Southern Pacific doing any
business. Sacramento continues to be
the center of interest. After the
conflict there on Tuesday between the
strikers and strong forces under the
United States marshal and the chief of
police, and OH Wednesday between the
strikers and the state militia 1t was
feared there would be d serious out
break today. The conflict which seems
to be unavolda BILE has been delayed,
however. for at least another day. Early
this morning the strikers were rein-.
forced by l5O men from Truckee. who.
came into Sacramento on freight
train. Soon afterwards train from
DunsInuir, bearing over 100 heavily
armed strikers reached there. These
men have created no trouble. however.
They quietly joined the local strikers!
and as quietly expressed their de-
termiualic" to aid the Sacramento ineu
in prevent. * the railroad company from
breaking the blockade under cover of
the militia. No attempt to bring out
the militia was made, and tonight the,
determined A. R U. men are in possess
sion or the Sacramento depot. Gen.
Dimond, chagrined at the action of his
troopS yesterday in refusing to move
upon the strikers. this morning left
Sacramento and returned 10 San Franz
cisco. Before doing so, however. he
sent two companies from Stockton
home in disgrace, and issued all order
depriving the Sacramento companies of
their arms and uniforms, During the
day the strikers established heada uar
terS in the vicinity of he railroad yards
and settled down for long siege. It's
now believed that the railroad will
make no further move at Sacramento.
until federal troops can be had there.
AT Oakland the strikers are III COM
plete control. There too, the state MI.
litia proved of no avail, for the sympa-4
thy of the militia is with the strikers.
Companies from Pelalu ma, San Rae
fael and Santa Rosa. had been ordered
to Oakland but they were sent nome
without being ordered against the
strikers. This morning the company
fired up two switch engines in Oak
land. No sooner had this been done
than mob OF 800 strikers bore down
on the yards, pushed past the anresist-
ing depu ty sneritfs and captured the
locomotives. They ran the engines on
the switches. blew the steam, raked
out the fire and let out Lle water. The
railroad officials made no further at
tempt 10 turn a wheel.
While this riot was In progress,
thousands of people who live OH the
Oakland side of the bay and do business
in San Francisco stood Oh The shores
waiting for transportation. All the
regular ferry boats had been stopped,
and to make the blockade more conf
plete, three big ferry b3ats that were
temporarily running up Oakland creek
grounded at low tide and stuck fast In
the creek. From to 10 O'clock this
morning there was no communications.
The first Oakland boats TO reach San
Francisco arrived at 1890 Traffic Hon
the coast division running out OF San
francisco is also INSTRUCTED. AT San
Jose a large force of strikers stepped
the passage OF trains by throwing them
selves on the track. Many interior
towns are already running short of
supplies, and are complaining bitterly.
Fireman Wing. who was accidentally
shot by mllitiaman at Sacramento,
died today.