Show RIOT BELL PEALD fiRTH ll N OAKLAND Six Hundred and Forty Men Own the Town PREPARATIONS MADE FOR BLOODY WORK Industrials Refused to Ride in BoxCars Box-Cars Police Force Strengthened MIlitIa Called ami a Gatlinpr Gun Trained Train-ed on n Point Wbere i Would Have Done Effective Service After Hours of Excitement When One Shot Would Have Meant u Carnage the Army of Pcsiee Moves on Heading for Ogden Oakland Cal April CTHe city of Oakland has h vd many cx citing events in its history lt never has anything occurred here to compare withthe turmoil tur-moil caused early this morning by a regiment of unemployed men which left San Francisco Wednesday to join Ccx eys army in its march to Washington All night long every man woman and child in Oakland was on the streets the riot alarm was sounded the governor gov-ernor was asked to call out the national na-tional guard extra police and deputy sheriffs were sworn in and armed with made for fight I rifles and preparations fght ing of the bloodiest kind because 640 unemployed desperate men refused to leave the city Only a rash word oran or-an unlucky shot was required to precipitate I pre-cipitate a conflict which would have resulted in the extinction of this branch of the industrial army for the men composing it were mostly unarmed and could have made but feeble resistance to the officers apd citizens But the word was not uttered nor the shot fred for the army overawed by force consented to move on when it was seen I that further resistance to the will of the citizens of Oakland was useless Wanted Palace CarsOn Cars-On Wednesday last under the leadership lead-ership of a man named Kelly about 600 unemployed men applied to Mayor Ellert of San Francisco for assistance in getting across the bay to Oakland where they expected to secure transportation trans-portation on freight trains to the east The mayor contributed 25 and the regiment was sent over to Oakland Mayor Pardee of this city resented what he called the foisting of San Franciscos unemployed upon Oakland and a tart correspondence has ensued between the mayors of the two cities Upon arriving at Oakland the army found that the Southern Pacific I railroad would riot allow them to ride on its freight trains I so they camped in the Mills tabernacle and waited Thepeople Oakland fed Them and tKey were in no hurry to move Finally the citizens raised 200 to pay the fare of the industrials to I Sacramento and arrangements were made to have them start at 6 oclock last night The army marched on time ito I the Sixteenth street station to take the train and the people of Oakland heaved asigh of relief at getting rid of Ii them so easily When however the army found t that i was to t be trans 1 JULLCU ill uux iurs tile luuu luueneu < LMU refused to leave unless passenger coaches were provided So the army marched back to the tabernacle Chief of Police Schaeffer tried to make peace by asking the railway company to supply passenger coaches Division Superintendent Wilder refused Suprintendent Vider the request saying that the railroad company could not furnish the coaches for the 5200 that had been subscribed A Council of War All negotiations were declared off and then it was decided to take action against the army The officers received information that among the leaders of the army was a man who had been interested in the Haymarket riots in Chicago This information was somewhat some-what alarming to the officers and i was decided to take speedy action and avoid bloodshed if possible Mayor Pardee hurriedly called a meeting meet-ing of the town council and a plan of campaign was decided upon I At 1 oclock Mayor Pardee issued positive orders to Chief of Police Schaeffer Schaef-fer that the industrial army must be driven out of the city by force The orders were of such a character that the chief felt they must be carried out He made a secret investigation and learned that the army consisted of about 640 men who were camped in the tabernacle for the night Chief Schaeffer then issued a general order to all members of his force to report in uniform at the city hal for duty at once In response to this order or-der some twentyfive police officers appeared ap-peared at the city hall The chief came to the conclusion that thiS number num-ber was not sufficient to battle with and he did not propose to take chances He wanted a full force before he attempted at-tempted the raid A report was made to Mayor Pardee of the condition of affairs and he at once telegraphed to the governor to have the militia called out The telegram was sent to Sacramento Sacra-mento and in case the governor could not be found an appeal was to be made to Adjutant General Allen Tlie I Hlitii Appears Chief Schaeffer then sent for Sheriff McKillican and a consultation was held at the city hal The sheriff agreed to swear in all the necessary deputies in order to keep the peace In the meantime mean-time Major Frank OBrien commanding command-ing the first battalion of the Fifth regiment regi-ment including companies A F and G was summoned to the city hal He was notified by the police to prepare for action as a telegram had beei sent to the governor asking for assistance Major OEricn at once repaired to the armory and his officers were summoned for duty He notified the police that he would be In readiness to report for duty with two companies the moment he received word from either the governor gov-ernor or the adjutant general Under the direction of Major OBrien a Gat ling gun was placed in front of the city hal and loaded for action The gun was placed in charge of militiamen militia-men with instructions to take no acton ac-ton until word was received from the major in command At midnight the mayor Sheriff JMcKillican and Chief Schaeffer held a consultation and it was decided to drive the industrial army out of the city at C oclock in the morning The excitement at the city hall vasj now running high The officers were arming themselves with pistols clubb and Winchester rifles Sergeant Fetcher Fetch-er commenced to organize the men into a company so as to bo ready for action ac-tion at a moments notice At 123 oclock no word had yet been received from Sacramento and the militia was awaiting orders to move and assist the police Preparation for War The mayor and the council are still nt the city hal and finally sent the chief of police and the sheriff to make 1 a final request of Superintendent Wilder Wil-der for passenger coaches Wilder refused i re-fused and further preparations for war immediately commenced Oak lands police force consists of fifty men and they were all on duty At 2 oclock a general alarm was sounded by the fire bells and the citi zens hastened to the city hall where about one hundred of them were sworn in as dpputy sheriffs and were armed The fire department also responded and were armed with axe handles Then the citys forces marched to the tabernacle where the industrials were peacefully slumbering They were rudely awakened and ordered to move out The men refused and things looked ominous Consultations were held on both sides Finally the police arrested leader Kelly and several of his men and penned the rest of them up in a corner cor-ner of the tabernacle They still refused re-fused to move until their leader was returned to them and the police held another consultation I was proposed to handle the army by force Acting under Kellys advice however the industrials in-dustrials agreed to submit peacefully and at 320 am formed a line and escorted by 200 armed police and citizens citi-zens marched to Sixteenth street station sta-tion where they entered the box cars and shortly after 4 oclock the train pulled out for Sacramento Then They Went to Bed Oakland heaved another big sigh of relief and went back to bed At Sacramento Sac-ramento the army will be reinforced by about 300 more men and unless the railroad company agrees to take II the whole lot still further on the journey jour-ney across the continent trouble is almost al-most certain to ensue |