The morning call., 1894-07-09
BLOCKED AT SAN JOSE.
Trains Not Allowed to Move From
the Garden City.

ETdlUS MOI AIIOWEd ~ NAOVS
the Garden City.
SAN JOSE, July 8.-The lull that pre-
cedes storm has prevailed In this CITY
to-day. Division Superintendent HaydOck
and Divis ion Master Mechanic Gregg ap-
peared on the scene bright and early anu
10 ade an heroic attempt to perfect arrange
ments to clear the yards tomorrow morn
ing. but failed.
They called on the Sheriff and the Chlet
of Police for protection, but in the face Oh
the determined stand taken by the strikers
they decided to let the trains stand In the
yards another day. They are still de-
termned to clear the yards at the earliest
opportunity, however. and the leaders OF
Lhe strikers assert that such move VIII
De met with sufficient resistance to pre-
vent the turning of a single wheel.
Ii me police and the Sheriff's forces
take hand in the affair the strikers Will
resort to any extremity to thwart their ac-
tl0n. Ihe yard in which the three stalled
passenger trains stand was remarkably
quiet Today. Only the strikers and few
OF the sympathiZers were in evidence and
the time was spent in quietly discussing
the situation. The depot was locked Sc
curely from cellar to garret and together
with the yard remained in the absolute
possession of the strikers
The only excitement of the day was
caused by a telephone message received
at the Sheriff'S office to the effect that a
mob of strikers were tearing up the track
at Hillsdale, small station five miles
south of the city. Sheriff Bollinger. ac-
companed by six deputies. drove hur-
riedly to the scene and found twenty-five
men hanging about the station.
They had made no attempt TO tear up the
tracks. but Ignacio Palenico. George Filz-
gerald and Antoine Demouley were ar
rested for pulling Engineer Hewitt OF his
engine last Thursday. Fitzgerald has
served two years in San Quentin for grand
larceny aud each of the other two have
put in lime at the County Jail for minor
offtnses. None of the mob are railway
men, but constitute part Of the criminal
element that has brought dscredit on the
strikers in this city by resOrtlng to acts of
violence. There is every indication OF an
early attempt TO clear the yards at this
point, but whether the move will be made
tomorrow or next day no one, not even
the railway offic ais themselves, can tell.
Superintendent; Haydock had a long con-
sultation over the wires with A. n. IOwne
this morning and at the close prepared to
move the trains. A crew of men were
brought to the Yards and the boilers of the
locomotives filled with water. Haydock
and Gregg then drove to the Office OF the
Sheriff, and while they were gone the
strikers drew the water out of the boilers
as they had done on two previous occa-
sons. Every effort was made on the part
of the railway company to get ready 10
move the trains tomorrow morning, but
at dark Superintendent HaydOck an
n0uDced as he could not be assured of
ample protection the attempt had been
abandoned. He said, however, that the
Sheriff had promised to swear in enough
deputies to afford him ample protection as
soon as possible
H. T. McChntock of the strikers execu-
tive committee received a cipher message
from Presidedt Debs of Chicago, promis-
ing all necessary re-pnforcements in case
of an emergency. Of what the promised
reinforcement consists McClintock would
not say. McCIintock said that on behalf
of the executive committee he had prom
ised the local authorities that so long as
the police aud the Sheritf's deputies
should keep away he would promise that
tho strikers would use no violence either 10
persons or to property.
"But if the Sheriff or police attempt to
assist the railroad to move It's trains we
shall use force" he said. 'While this
strike lasts a wheel shall not turn in this
city and We shall resort to any extreme,
even to bIoodshed to prevent it. The citi-
zens here are with US in this fight. and
when the time comes tn strike the blow we
shall not lack for friends. We hope to
carry our point peaceably, but if we have
to fight TO tri imp we are ready to 90 it."
1t is believed that the railroad company
will make an attempt to move its trains
early Tuesday morning. before he strikers
get up. The strikers keep guards at the
yards continually, and the frs movement
toward firing boiler will be the signal
for the picket to awaken the strikers and
call them to he yards.
An effort to get the trains out while the
strikers are asleep will. therefore. be not
wholly unattended with d fficuties.
Sheriff B0llilger. who is accused by thu
railway men of being in sympathy with
the strikers, says he will swear in enough
deputies to protect the railway company
while it attempts 10 clear the yards, but
he will take no hand in moving the trains.