Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-03
IRv Associated Press.l

N NACRAMENTO, June 2.-Cheered by
~ thousands of excited people who
~ gathered at the depot to witness
their departure. companies E and G,
Second infantry, National guard, ac-
companied by a hospital corps and
troop B, cavalry, left at Sis tonight on
a special train for McCloud, Siskiyou
county, where the striking employees OF
the McCloud Lumber company have
preciptated a state of panic.
At Chico company A was picked up,
bringing the total number of troops
up to 300. If this force proves insult
ficient reinforcements will be taken
from Colusa and Woodland and possi-
bly, San Francisco.
The expedition is in charge of Ad-
jutant General ]. B. Lauck and Colo
mel H. 1. Seymour of the Second in
fantry.
Company Commanders
Company e is under Captain F. F..
Canon, company G., under Captain J.
NJ Milliken and company A, under
First Lieutenant H. R. Downing, and
troop B, under Captain o. j. Bowden.
The guardsmen will arrive at McCloud
early tomorrow morning.
Twenty thousand rounds of ammuni-
tion and ten days provisions accom-
pany the troops, who left in heavy
marching order and prepared for a
lengthy stay.
The order turning out the troops, who
have been held in their armory since
yesterday afternoon, was issued at 5
o'clock this afternoon Immediately
upon receipt of a telegram from Colonel
Bradbury announcing that the strikers
had taken forcible possession of the
company's plant and threatened the
destruction of $2000,000 worth of prop
erty and the lives and homes of many
white people.
Tonight McCloud is reported to be in
total darkness. the rioters having
stormed the electric light plant and
cut off the wood supply.
Message from Bradbury ~
The message which prompted Gov
ernor Gillett to order the militia with
all speed to McCloud was from Colonel
Bradbury, and read:
McCLOUD, P. M.-Adjutant Gen
eral Lauck; Strikers held meeting at
ing they went in body to machine shops,
car shops and power plant a9d COM
PEELED all engineers and wOrhmen to
quit.
Broke in doors of power plant, ran
wood cars out and stopped firing of
firemen.
McCl0ud now WITHOUT IRE prOLeciiuH
and light. Two million dollars worth of
property, white people and their homes
at mercy of strikers, who seem to have
got beyond control of their former
leaders.
sheriff cannot or will not give proper
protection. 1 believe four five
nanies should be rushed here to pro-
feet property and whites. l personally
witnessed ell that took place. Please
advise action.
(Signed) BRADBURY.
Immediately on receipt of this tele-
gram Governor Gillett ordered Adju-
tant General Lauck to send the troops
that have been held in the armories
since last night out of the city as soon
as possible.
Power Plant Still
A special received late tonight says
that the only result of the capture of
the lighting plant is that 250 homes in
McCloud, as we'll as the company
buildings, offices, staff quarters, hotels,
boarding houses, hospital and admins
trative building, are in darkness, save
for few tallow candles and oil lamps
that glimmer here and there.
six hundred strikers formed in line
and paraded the streets between and
q o'clock this afternoon. There was no
disorder, but with banners flying the
men tramped past the company store
and the offices as though on review.
The parade was intended as notice to
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