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Show YARDMEN STRIKE AND CAUSE TIE UP OF TRAINS B A N" FRANCISm. Aug. 26. All I yardmen employed here b the somh iiern Pacific railroad compan cw on strike today. Striking ynrd employes attending a meeting tonight at the labor temple, declared the strike wh a "uponta neous affair" arranged by the men themselves and that the local unior of fleers had not called. No officers of the ior i yardmen! unions attended the meeting, which was executive, ao far as could be learned. MEN QUIT AT OAKLAND OAKLAND, ( al . Au;- v, - Yardme.i of 1 he Southern Pacific here began leaving their work shortlv before o'clock tonight Whether the action '(y.as connected with the strike across San Francisco bay In San Francisco , was not known 1 The strike which involves many em i ployed in caring for engines in th yards here as well as switchmen, wen Into effect as the day shift weni of; duty. The men left a sufficient num ber of workers on duty to care for the rush of commuters to nearby points. Because of this, railroad official-; said it would be impossible to tell defi Bltely how many men were Involved In the strike for some hours. Thev mo said at first that all the yard employes! bad quit work. No statement of the men's reason' for quitting work was made when they I walked out Some of ;he strik. ra - rid 'hey had no knowledge of the reason 1 for the strike order. LIMITED HELD UP. ALBUQUERQUE, N M . Aug. 26 The Santa Fc'd California limited train No 3. which arrhed here at noon todav from the east, was still being neb I here at a late hour tonight, due to the .Mrlke in California and other plac.ee I west of here. No. 9. which loft here at 2:3i o'clock this morning, was tied up at Wlnslow, Ariz., this afternoon I No Information was obtainable as to wnen the trains would move. Only one (rain has arrived here from the west .today. This was No 2 nhich left Sa. Francisco Sunday night No train has j reached here from L-:. Angeles sine-Sunday sine-Sunday night. Two stub trains are being sent east from here today. 1 Advices from Williams. Aria., are to (the effect that there was no train serv 'ice Into, or out of. that point excep jon the Santa Fe's Grand Canyon branch Many tourists are tied up. bot;. I at Williams ami the Grand t'anyon The Williams electric light plant I Which burns oil in Its boilers, has only la ten day s supply of furl on, hand am.' Will have to close down unless traffic is resumed by that Lime. SALE OF TICKETS STOPPED iurtiA, Kan., Aug 2b. -Orders , W re posted by the Atchison, Topeka L ; Santa Fe Railroad company here to iMght 'directing that the sale of tickets 1 to points beyond Needles. Cal., on th-! Santa Fe. Tucson. Ariz , on the South ern Pacific, and Santr. Barbara, ?pl on the Southi rn Pacific, be temporal I 1 discontinued. PASSENGERS UNLOADED 1 LOS ANGELES I al , Aug. 26. Four ; hundred passengers on five overlanJ trains on the Santa Fe were unloaded at Bars tOW, Call, during today. Included In-cluded in the 100 were 100 soldiers bound for March Field. Rhorsidc. Army officials there prepared to send for the men in motor (rucks. The ith-er ith-er passengers were endeavoring to- j night to secure transportation to San I Bernardino or Los Angeles. The ma-' jority are reported to hae decided to stay at BarstOW rather than pay wha. they' termed extortionate automobile fares, Two hundred passengers on a Salt ; Lake Route overland train were held' tonight at Las Vegas, Nev . northeast of San Bernardino. Officials said they were afraid to move the train to Sail Bernardino. The number of strike breakers held at Las VegBS is increasing Ever; train bearing the railroad men on the'r way to displace strikers at Los Angeles, Ange-les, was searched and the men request ed to get off. no |