Diary 70-07: July, 1894 - preliminary transcript

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cool -- Strike continued -- Trains as usual on V & T RR except local passenger car which is discontinued -- No mails east or west on the big RR. Bad on the fruit interest, fish & all perishable commodities -- No SF newspapers -- Bed 12 -- The Midwinter Fair closed by limitation today -- the real complete closing will however be on the coming Fourth -- next Wednesday --

The Big Strike -- Hard Times Basis -- 1894 Mining Pay day all right -- The Biggest Contest of the World The Devil to Pay!!!

Sunday July 1, 1894

Cloudy & warm with occasional light showers -- The big strike remains the same, only more so, V & T train on time -- 11,35 -- came in reduced to 2 cars: -- mail, express & baggage and one passenger coach -- had only two passengers -- down to hard times basis.

Monday July 2

Clear & very pleasant -- Much excited inquiry about the big strike -- Pay days for the mines in connection -- no money to get from SF to pay off with -- got it from Carson mint in silver -- good enough -- Bed 12 -- Much trouble in Cal about the strike -- from bad to worse -- Only mail from Reno & here, as per yesterday --

Independence Day 1894

Tuesday July 3

Same -- No change in the big strike situation -- Everybody getting ready

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for the 4th -- decorating, etc -- Evening much popping of crackers, bombs, etc, rockets etc -- Bed 12 --

Wednesday July 4

Same -- Good celebration -- About 60 went to Carson to IOOF celebration, but tendency was to stay & celebrate at home -- Procession military, etc, not very extensive but good -- exercises International balcony, C st -- I had up our old Pioneer flag on old flagstaff -- raised & lowered it myself -- lots of crackers, bombs, & other fireworks till a late hour, as usual --

The Blockade -- Mass Meeting -- Hot weather -- 1894

Thursday July 5

Same -- Bed 12 -- Two byelicists from S.F. leaving there Sunday arrived today -- First to break blockade -- [Herness?] Pass route --

Friday July 6

Same -- A man arrived with copies of Sacramento papers, via the Placerville route & Lake Tahoe -- Bed 12

Saturday July 7

Same -- Evening big ARU meeting at the Opera House -- addressed by FM Huffaker, CA Mack, Mr Daughty of Wadsworth and Mrs Maynard -- Bed at 1 --

Sunday July 8

Same -- Bed 12 -- Hot day -- 83 deg at 2 PM -- Regular monthly meeting of the old Exempts this PM -- I attended -

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Showers -- Hot -- 1894 -- Evans

Monday July 9

Clear & hot -- 85[degrees] -- No special news in the big strike situation -- Bed 12

Tuesday July 10

AM same -- PM cloudy & cooler, with good thunder showers of rain -- Bed 12 --

Wednesday July 11

Fine, clear and fine -- Bed 12 --

Thursday July 12

Same -- Bed 12 -- Met Evans & his dog this PM.

Friday July 13

Cloudy and sultry -- 80[degrees] -- Evening some heavy thunder showers -- Bed 1 --

Saturday July 14

Cloudy some and 80[degrees] -- Bed 12 --

Mail trains Passing Reno Again -- 1894 First Eastern Mail Received -- Railroad Soldiers The Fruit & Passenger Blockade --

Sunday July 15

Cloudy, some and pretty warm -- A mail train from the East reached Reno at 9:30 AM -- 10 cars, including 2 Pullman sleepers, well guarded with 30 US soldiers -- will go on to Cal in morning -- This train had 5 or 6 cars of delayed mail -- Our V & T noon train brought some of it up. This is first overland mail since the 28th of June -- At 3 PM a train bound East

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reached Reno from California, heavily loaded with mails and soldiers & few passengers -- First from the West since the strike -- Another on the way -- looks as though the blockade was being raised --Soldiers are scattered at all principal points as well as the train -- The grand organization of strikers still holds out firmly -- A few travelers and some fruit get across the Sierra by stages and private conveyance also a few letters & papers. Enormous amounts of fruit lost, and the blockade is strongly

The Blockade -- Trains moving -- Big Delayed Mails Received Reno Under Martial Law

felt -- Must soon break up or there will be much suffering & privations -- [?] still indulged in at Sacramento & Oakland, but the troops are conquering & martial law fixing things in Cal as well as Reno & elsewhere -- Nevada people blockaded in San Francisco during this strike will be getting home again soon -- Bed 2 --

Monday July 16

Cloudy but very pleasant -- The great railroad strike the stir of the day -- Big delayed mails from the East and West bulldosed the Postoffice -- Trains running both East & West from Reno, which place is placed under martial law much to the indignation of the citizens -- about 100 US soldiers stationed there -- Bed 12 --

Through the Blockade -- DM Fletcher

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Tuesday July 17

Clear & warm -- 80[degrees] -- Brodek, Hanifan, Wilder, Rising & a few other blockaded passengers arrived last evening & this morning from San F -- Two days trip, train only running by daylight with heavy military guard -- No trouble or excitement -- Big delayed mails from both East & west -- Bed 12 --

Wednesday July 18

Same -- Trains and mails running as yesterday and Nevadans getting home from California -- Bessie expected home shortly -- Evening I wrote a three page letter to David M Fletcher, 202 Stockton st relative to his deceased father Chas A Fletcher's life membership in the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers, inclosing one of my Pioneer pamphlets -- Bed 1 --

65 yrs old -- Strike declared off!!! -- 1894 All trains running again on time -- Herting-Cocks

Thursday July 19

Same -- Bed 12 --

Friday July 20

Same -- Bed 12 --

Saturday July 21

Same -- 84[degrees] -- My 25th birthday -- 25 yrs old today -- good health, but broke in purse -- Nothing special or eventfull to relate -- Bed 12 -

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