Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-01
LIST NIGHTS NEWS.
PASSENGER TRAIN IN CHARGE
OF A MADMAN,
Another Battle in Manitoba-The San
Francisco ColIectorship-
Washington Items.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EEesD-uN1os.l
DOMESTIC
An Insane Man Captures e Train-Bloody
Work.

DOMESTIC,
An Insane Man Captures 4 Train-Bloody
Work.
CHICAGO, May 31st-Psssenger train No.
G. on the Wabash, St Louis and Pacific
Railroad, arrived here to-day an hour and
q half late, in charge o;' a mailman. 0utof
twelve or fifteen men, officers and citizens
who finally secured him, one officer is
dead, shot through the body, another
probably fatally wounded, several citizens
injured, and the ltnatic himself lies in the
County Hospital 7nortally wounded, with
three bullets in him. Shortly before noon
to-day the station policeman at the Wa
bash, St. Louisiana Pacific depot, on Polk
street, received the following dispatch:
CHEMsA Cn.), May Slst
have an insane man on my train, who has
possession of one car. The police at Kansas
City, Jacksonville and Peoria were all afraid to
take him. Please send ten or twelve policemen
out on No. ] TO take him when we arrive in
Chicago. They had better come in citizens
clothes. They will have to look sharp, or some
one Will get hurt. PUTNAM,
Conductor of No. 6.
No. 6, which left Kansas City last night,
was due here at $50 p. NJ. There was a diff
Guilty in starting out No. l as directed in the
dispatch, and it was decided to meet the
train at the depot. Eight uniformed police
men and four in citizens clothes, under
command Of Lieutenant Laugh, made up
the squad, which arrived at the depot ten
minutes before the train was due. The
train being delayed, as was subsequently
learned, by Intellectual efforts to catch the
lunatic, the police were forced to wait more
than an hour. After considerable anxious
speculation as to the condition of things on
board No. g. the officers were finally any
thing but treasured by dispatch
from suburb station warning them that
the maniac was well armed, and would
resist desperately. :. little later No. APP
peared in sight, and the police, separating
so as to form two squads awaited her ar
rival on either side of the track. As the
train approached the whistle sounded
number of warning notes in quick success
sion, and people hanging half way out of
the car windows were seen to gesticulate
wildly to the crowd. Before the train
had come to stand-still a dozen passen-
gers jumped to the ground and fed, look
ing back, with blanched faces. Officer Bar
rett was the first to observe the lunatic.
Barrett was standing near the end of the
Smoking-car, and the mailman, with q
leveled revolver, glared at him from the
front platform of the chair-car, the length
OF one car distant. Barrett turned half
round and stopped instantly, but too late,
for ball from the lunatic's revolver struck
him in the side, and in five minutes he was
dead. One look at the maniac was enough
to satisfy any one that while his ammuni-
ton lasted he would not to taken alive.
Seeing this, the officers, after removing
their wounded comrade began fusillade
through the windows of the smoking-car.
where the mailman had taken refuge.
After minute or two he plunged out upon
the platform, fired a couple of shots into the
crowd, leaped from the train and dashed
down Fourth avenue. Officer Laughlin
started in hot pursuit, and at him the
lunatic fired the last shot in his weapon.
but without effect The maniac stopped
there and awaited Laughlin's coming with
cleaning eyes and trOthing mouth. They
clinched, when the officer tripped his pris-
oner and they both fell, the mailman beat
ing Laughlin numerically on the head
with his revolver. The officer was in citi-
zen's clothes, and was set upon and
terribly pounded by an excited colored
man, who mistook the officer for
the prisoner The rest of the squad
arrived shortly and the maniac was Sc
cured. He was taken first to a cell and
then to the hospital to have his wounds
dressed. When he realized that further
resistance was useless, the prisoner grew
calm, and said, quite nationally, that his
name was Louis Reaume; that he was SO
Years old, and was ell route to his home in
Detroit from Denver. The train men of
No. tell thrilling story of the trip from
Kansas City. When the man boarded the
train at that place he remarked that people
were after him to lynch him. and that if
left alone he would modest no one. At FL
PasO, H., he became violent, and with
revolver in hand ordered the Train men to
cease making some changes in the makeup
Of the train. The passengers all left the
chair car, which the mailman made his
headquarters, and were locked into the
others. No one dared approach the lunatic,
and after he had exchanged several shots
with the City Marshal he ordered the train
to proceed, and from there to Chicago his
will was the only law obeyed.
SECOND DISPATCH.I
CHICAGO, May 31st.-Since his wounds
have been dressed Reaume has become
somewhat more communicative. He saws
lie is a French Canadian by birth, a fresco
painter by trade, and has a wife and three
children in Detroit. He wore white
Sombrero, and as he ran down Fourth ave
nue. was thought by the residents to be a
cowboy on a spree. AS the train on which
he arrived was passing slowly through the
Spruck jumped aboard the platform where
the maniac stood. He Immediately blazed
away with his revolver the bail lust graz
ing Spruck's chin and taking button from
his coat. Spruck stepped off and waited
for another train. In the fight at the depot
the maniac reloaded as fast as his weapon
was empty, and altogether more than 100
shots were fired.
THE LUNATIC AT KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY, May 31st.-The maniac
passenger who created a sensation at the |
Wabash depot in Chicago to-day attracted
some attention here yesterday on account
of his evident hallucinatiOn He came
over the Union Pacific yesterday from
Denver, giving his name as Louis Reaume. |
and said he was going to Detroit. He |
stated to the train men that he had been |
driven ont of Denver on account of some |
crime, of which he was innocent. and that |
he was being pursued. At his request he !
was permitted to ride in the baggage car. as
being a safer place. He was armed with |
revolver and upon his arriving here the |
police, who had been notified by telegraph. |
at first proposed to arrest him, but as the |
man gave no evidence Of insanity they |
decided to permit him TO continue his |
Journey, which he did last night.
Wheat Crop Prospects.
CHICAGO, May 3lst-The growing wheat |
crop having reached a critical stage. and |
winter wheat having approached condition |
sufficiently near maturity to approximate |
-he acreage and probable yield, the Farmers |
Rerie,o has the following: A summary, by |
A complete survey of all the Western and |
southern wheat-growing States, reports
having been received from over 5000 cor
covering every wheat-produc- |
ing county in Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska,
illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, |
Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and |
Dakota, together with a very accurate and |
recent summary from the Pacific coast |
-egion, has been carefully prepared, and the
Information is believed to be the most ex-
laustive and the latest that has yet been
and forcshadows the State and
government reports. In summing up the
detailed reports, the Reiie,c SAYS The
sioomiest views which have been advanced
the winter wheat outlook for
$50 must now be accepted as most accu-
ate. The promising conditions of 1881
ave TINS season been completely reversed.
The absolute uniformity of the returns in
iIcateS that the outlook for winter-soWn
wheat this year is the worst in ten wears.
md 1t may be now set down as positive
hat under the most favoring conditions the
otal winter and spring wheat yield is to
all considerably under the sholt crop of
Sol, when the total product was 3S0,000,-
90 bushels