St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-23
Pennsylvania Outlaws Sur
rounded in a Mountain
Cabin.
Besiegers and Besieged Well
Armed, and a Battle Ex-
pected.
A Kentucky Judge Leads a
Posse, and Captures Some
Bad Men.
Mexican MapaudePs Invade
Texas, and Two Bite
Dust.

UNIONTowN, Pa, March 22.-At in
tervals from Z o'clock to midnight last
night, men on horseback, mostly alone,
occasionally in pairs, were seen to leave
Uniontown coming at random from
all directions, but all galloping away
toward the mountains. Few who saw
them suspected that this was party
of vigIlanteS that was secretly
organized, and which has been the only
organized expedition yet made to cap
t t the McClellandtown robbers.
There were ten from Uniontown and
five from the vicinity of the latest out
RACES of the band, among them, two of
the victims from McClelIandtown. and
all men of grit and determination.
They were to have been joined by
twenty-five or thirty policemen along
the road, and from the vicinity of the
outlaws camp near Markleysburg,
where the people are greatly excited
and willing to aid in remov-
ing the bad gang from among
them. They appointed meeting
place near the point OF assault and were
TO assemble quietly after midnight and
no attack was to have been made until
daybreak this morning. The gang has
been under surveillance, and they were
known to still be ensconcea in the hill
house yesterday, and the movements of
posse were made as quietly as possible
to avoid letting the band know of the
intended assault. The party were all
we'll armed with revOlyerS. and in the
portion from here there were
twelve repeating Winchester relies.
The mOuntaineerS, however, all keep
themselves we'll supplied with
firearms, and the whole party made
body of considerable strength. Should
an assault fail to surprise the inmates
and capture them, the party proposed
to surround the house and starve the
gang out, shooting any one who made
his appearance with arms. No word
has reached here yet as to their move
meDts, the camp being thirty miles in
the mountains from here, and it is sup
posed that they are engaged in a game of
starvation. This forenoon word reached
here that they had tried to force an en-
trance into the log house in which the
robbers are at bay. during which shots
were exchanged on both sides without
iniuring any one. The robbers refuse
to surrender, and are prepared to sell
their lives as dearly as possible. and to
die IL they cannot escape under cover
of, the darkness. Nine men and three
women constitute the party in the
AOuSC. NHUIh ACWtS. Oulllfdll
and Ramsey we're recognized The at
lacking party have the house well sur
rounded, and are watched from safe
distance by about 100 wondering
.mountaineerS who have no arms, all the
armed men in the neighborhood having
joined the posse. The outlaws have
ali abundance of ammunition, four
Winchester rifles and sixteen revolvers,
and are not afraid to use them. The
attacking party are proffered a cannon
which is in the vicinity with which to
batter down the house, but hesitate as
yet to use it until they ascertain if they
can do SO legally. The principal reason
for the messengers trip was for infor-
nation OH this point. The intelligence
that the band was corralled spread like
wildtire here, and soon Sheriff Miller
had started for the scene of difficulty
with large posse raised here, who eX-
pect to reach Markleysburg about dark.
The vicinity of the robbers den is ablaze
with excitement, men hurrying there
from all parts of the mountain, and with
a good leader they expect to finally land
the band in Jail.