Correspondence regarding Railroad travel during strike, 1894 July 1 - July 2

Palace San Fran 2

Mrs Jane L Stanford

[?] agt willows

[A]ll glad to hear [y]ou have got along [so] well to day and hope [yo]u are quiet [sic] well The conditions since morning has been [gr]owing more serious [W]e are sending a [?] detachments [of] United States troops [on] special trains from [he]re to Los Angeles [?] [?] [?]

[?uch] trouble conditions [?] Sacramento has [ch]anged only for the worse we [ar]e getting out [a] few interior [l]ocal trains from [he]re and on the coast [d]ivision but no through [tr]ains are attempted. [si]tuation in the east [ve]ry serious.

A.N. Towne

Telegram

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY

Sunset Ogden & Shasta Routes

Dunsmuir, July 2, 1894

Hon. Eugene V. Debs.

Pres. A.R.U. Chicago Ill.

I appreciate more than I can express your kind act. I accept it as a tribute & a work of esteem to the memory of my husband, who for 25 years was held in veneration by all of his R.R. employees. It would have pleased you to have seen the joy in the faces of the Representatives of your Organization here to carry out your sanction of their desire.

Gratefully yours.

Mrs. Leland Stanford.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

43 paid

RECEIVED at 935 am

Dated Chicago Ill 7/2 July 2 1894

To Mrs Leland Stanford

Dunsmuir

The trainmen will haul your car to its destination on presentation of this telegram If there should be any further interruption please advise me and I will be glad to assist you in any way in my power on safely reaching your destination

Eugene V. Debs