The morning call., 1894-07-04
STRIKERS HOT.
Ebullitions of Force
in Oakland.
THEY ARE ENJOINED.
Judge McKenna Follows
Judge Ross.
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY.
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY.
United States District Attorney
Garter the Orator.
FREIGHT AND MAIL BY RIVER
Mrs. Stanford Arrives i'm Triumph.
The Crisis Welcomed at Fourth
and Townsend.

| Everybody was prepared for anything
that might happen on the Oakland mole
yesterday, and it nearly came off several
times. At no period since the strike have
the sheds been SO crowded as they were
from the first boat in from the city until
long after the last train had departed. A
feeling of vague unrest was in the air, and
it was not con fined altogether to the breasts
of the railway officials.
That something was going to happen
was certain. Just what or from what
| direction it might come was uncertain.
The crowds louuged this way and swayed
that, talked and speculated and waited.
1t was monster Micawber, with a sort of
a hankering for bloOdthirsty tidings.
The news came that the special train
bearing Mrs. Stanford. which had laid
over night at Willows. would be in
about 10 o'clock in the morning. This was
followed a short while later by the in
tellgence that the Sou hern Pacific, taking
| advantage of the permission given by the
| A. r. u. to Mrs. Stanford, would endeavor
10 run a Pullman train in ahead. Should
such move be made, 1t was quickly sur
missed, there might be trouble. As It hap
pened. things turned out in this manner
somewhat later. but the Sou thern Pacific
people deny that there was any design in
| the matter at all.
About 10 80 o'clock excitement was at
fever heat and the news ran down the line
that the Stanford train was coming.
Fifteen minutes later the news spread
that the train had been stopped at the
Sixteenth-street crossing in kland and
| 60
which bad left the mole few moments
previously, had been taken off, disarmed
! and mobbed aad that raging riot was in
progress. As il to confirm the news, the
Tracy train was slowly backed into the
sheds and the fireman, John Alexander.
was not aboard
Excited groups gathered around the
| cars and the story of the stoppage at Six
teenth street was told in hundred diff
| ferent ways. The tens ion was getting ex-
tremely severe, when another train was
| seen rounding the curve by the first tower
and in few moments the long-expected
! Stanford special drew up.
1t was in charge of Conductor Brady,
| with Engineer Poor and Fireman Silva,
! and had on board the A. r. U. escort of
Mrs. Stanford, consisting of G. j. Hardy,
! President T. j. Roberts of the A. r. o..
! T. Glaze, S. Baker, George Dillinger,
Maurice Harmon, F. W. Walraven,
William Fitzgerald, III. L. Walther, E. E.
Seller. j. F. Hearney. W. A. Ray and G.
! A. Cotfetter.
President Roberts of the A. R. u. who
had arrived at the depot by request of the
railway officials. was one of the first to
alight from the train, and Mrs. Stanford
and her party soon followed. Mrs. Stan
office and left for San Francisco by the
| first boat,
Mrs. Stanford was delighted, she said, TO
get down. and said she had been treated
like queen by the young men who had
been sent down as her escort by the
A. r. U.
''They did everything to make things
pleasant for me all the way. At Duns-
muir we had band of music and flowers
and fruit. l was much touched, but
knew, as they iod me, it was all as trib-
ute to my husbands memory"
Mrs. Stanford did not care to say any
thing concerning the strike.
Rumors of constantly increasing trouble
| at the Sixteen,h-street yards grew and
grew and soon seemed TO draw large
number of waiting passengers and loungers
from the mole in that direction, so that for
| a time there was comparative stiffness in
the sheds. The Tracy train was sent out
again. this time with yard engine No. 1877
| running ahead. 1t passed the first to wer
| all right and was going ahead some dis
| lance above when the switch engine was
| suddenly swerved onto a sidetraeK, which
| had been left open, and crashed into three
| boxcars standing there. The switch,
which had been left open in the excite
meDt, was turned in time enough TO pre-
vent the train from following the switch
engine. and it passed safely on its way,
although rumor had it that 1t was dtched
later at En- eryville. The end of one of
| the boxcars was completely smashed by
the collision with the switch engine.
There was not much to keep up the sx-
element until about 1 o'clock, when a
number of the striking railroad men came
down on the day coaches and gathered
around the switch engine which had
crashed into the boxcars. They were
talking concerning the happenings at Six
teenth street, when Special Officer Kellogg
of the railroad forces took it upon himself
to disperss them. He grabbed one by the
coat and seemed to be preparing for hos
tile demonstrations. when the man told
him he guessed he had better not. A ring
of strikers gathered round and told Kel-
logg TO his teeth he dare not hit the man.
Superintendent Wilder arrived on the
scene about this time. loudly declaring
that be didn't want any fighting there.
''All who haven't business here had bet
ter get out" he concluded. This is pri-
| vate property
Master Mechanic Mckenzie and several
others gathered around their chief and
counseled all sides to keep cool. There
were number of deputies present and
special railroad watchmen. and 1t looked
for minute as If conflict was at hand.
Division Superintendent Wilder broke
away as he caught sight Of Sheriff Nc
Killican and loudly called upon that officer
to clear the yard OF the strikers. The
Sheriff could not be made to see it In that
way aud coolly turned on his heel. The
strikers dispersed as they pleased.
Besides the Stanford special four other
trains had arrived before the noon hour
No. So got in from San Jose at 8:17 o'clock