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Violent Demonstrations

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sacramento, July 4.- Sacramento ■was the'scene of a violent deuionstration on the part of the strikers Tuesday afternoon. ïhe Southern Pacitic company attempted to break the blockade here and aend the westbound overland train to San Francisco. Preparations had been made for this attempt for a day or two past, but tbe etïort resulted in a complete failure. As soon as a start was made a mob of 3.000 strikers who had been removed from the immediate vicinit)' of the train previously swept down upon the train and dragsed United States Marshal Baldwin from the cab of the engine. The strikers knocked him down and the deputies and pólice who tried to interfere were powerless. 5Ia:iy in the mob shouted'"kill the marshal!" but the latter drew bis revolver and several deputies who had forced their way through the crowd did the same. The strikers were obliged to fall back and the marshal finally escaped to the railroad office. The attempt to move the train had to be abandoned for the time being. The strikers cut the train in two, then they conimenced to sidetrack the cars and disable the engines in the yards. Marshal Baldwin, realizing his utter helplessness to cope with the rioters, sent a dispatch to Governor Markham at Pasadena explaining the situation and recommending that the national guards be called upon for duty at Sacramento at once.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News