Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-08
FOUGHT 70 THE DEATH.

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Terrible Ehcountcr at Short Range Be-
tween Two Officers and Brace of Mexi-
can Horse Thieves q Sunset Route
Train = The Latter Both Killed. While
the Officers Suffer little More Than Tat
tered Clothing.
| CvALDE, Tex, June Gothic west
bound passenger train over the Sunset
route reached here Oh time this morning,
long before day, and after short wait,
Numbered on in the darkness. The train
was fast one. The road was rough,
and the nodding passengers chung
| to their seats with both hands.
| Many seats were occupied by men
and women, and up toward the forward
enc of the coach SIT a pair of quiet, bian-
ketcd figures, Mexicans. They had moth
ing to say, and beyond getting up few
times to light cigarettes, did not move.
Just before daylight the train pulled up
at the little wayside station of Cline,
twenty miles west of here. The train
stopped Just minute, but long enough
to allow Deputy Sheriffs Baylor and
Nimmo to spring aboard. AS their feet
touched the top steps they threw
| open the door and throwing down
| n couple of revolvers on
| their prey, ordered them 20
| throw up their hands. There was only
single lamp swinging i'm the car. The
sleepy passengers heard the curt demand.
and looking forward in the dim light saw
the shrouded forms spring hastily up, the
blankets fall from their shoulders and
the ball began.
There was an incessant explosion that
in the cramped and confined space of the
coach sounded terrific. The officers
stood with their backs to the door and
worked their revolvcrs for life
The desperadoes-on standing full
in the middle of the aisle, the
other with one hand resting carelessly
on the back Of Il seat and swearing shriIly
in Spanish-Were enTelOped in the smoke
OF their own reviewers. Amid the rip
ping of plush and tinkIc of shivering glass
the screaming and covering men saw the
tall form in the aisle plunge backward
TO the floor 4 dead man. The other deS-
perado, wounded, one hand pressing his
side, tile other holding his empty re-
vOlver over his head, with yell
burst by the officers through the
door and leaped to the ground.
Day had broken, and the slowing
train came to Il stop. One of the officers
sprang after the fleeing, staggering figure
and called on it to halt. 1t turned and
snapped The empty weapon ut its pursucr.
Then it went down with bullet Ill the
breast.
The officers took an inventory of them
selves. Though bleeding slightly in sew
eral places, they were unhurt, but their
clothing hung i'm tatters. Baylor, who
stood nearest the McXicans, had his
clothes literally ribbCned; his hands
and the side of his neck were POWDER
burned. NimmO had not suffered
SO severely. The names of the McXi-
cans, though known to the officers, at
this hour can not be learned. They were
horse-thicvcs, for whom the officers had
warrants. They were believed to
be members of the band of BAN
dts who, from over the Rio
Grande, have lately been raid
ing this section, and who some days ago
murdered Il banker in the heart of Uvalde.
Cline, the place at which the killing &C.
CURED, is in the heart of the infested
country. The dead MeXicans were both
young men and well dressed.