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Guerilla Tactics

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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SACRAMENTO, Cala., July 12.- Human life has been sacrifierl near this city iu a wreek which the siríkers are accused of having perpetrated. All of the victims but oue were c-oldiers. It is clear th;it ihe strikers realiza the folly oL openly resisting the United States army as they have resisted all marshals and state troops, and that the more barbarous and deadly tactics of uerilla warfare are to be resorted to. Twice duriug the day the troops were ambushed. The first attack from under cover was early in the morning. At 6 o'clock Colonel Graham landed at Sacramento with a forcé ot over 600 regulars. No effort was made to resist the troops' progress. l'hey marched direct to the Bouthern Pacific station and took possession of the buildings and railroad yards. Faslllade Acruss the Kiver. A few hundred people gatbered at the station, but dispersed when ordered to do so. At the wharves a detaohment of state militia had been left to guard the water front. The regular troops were no sooner out of sight than tbis little band of militia was fired upon with rifles by a forcé of some twenty-five men who were concealed in the bushes on the opposite side of the Jriver. The militiamen re. turned the fire and about 200 shots were exchanged acrosa the river before the attacking party fled. A Jupanese boy who srood on the river bank was killed by a bullet from the militia. None of the attacking party was appreheiided. Under cover of the United States troops the railroad officials went into the yards and resumed work unmolested. The tracks were cleared and trains were made up. Who Sawed the Trestlc? At noon a traiu was dispatcded forOakland under a strong militia guard. Among the crowds of strikers in the streets there were men wbo openly boasted that the train would never reach Oakland, but uo one thought rhey spoke knowingly. An hour later when the news came back to Sacramento of a horrible railroad wreek in which at least four men had perished these same men were as loudly denying that the men were strikers who had sawed away the supports of the railroad bridge Tne disaster at the bridge caused therailro d company to cease its efforts to move trains out of Sacramento. Until the wreckers now at work shall have repaired the damage done to the trestle no traics can be rnn over that line. Kanies of the Yictims of the Wreek." Samuel B. Clark, engineer; Private Byrne, Private Lubberding, Private Clark. Such is the list of the men who were killed in the wreek of the train, which occurred two and one-half miles below the city. The wounded are: Private Baumler, injured about head; Private Wilson, left leg seriously lacerated; Private Dugau, left arm cut off; Private Ellis, internally injured.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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