Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-01

large number of Union Pacific and Burlington
| and Missouri freight cars, which they had some
| time before taken possession OF. There were
| probably about / 500 in our little army and at
| the request Of a few citizens I took command
! OF one Of the companies and We sailed in. MY
| little crowd numbered forty and think we
| captured thirty-seven prisoners on that men,
orable day. One Of the first men to surrender
was heavy-set fellow whose left-arm
| coat sleeve was empty, and as he
| dropped out Of the freight car to the ground 1
restrained the bloodthrsty Impetuosity of nv
command and commenced to investigate the
| case before me. The prisoner spoke with a
| decided German accent, so sized him up at
| once as a poor unfortunate veteran who had
| lost his arm in the war Of the rebellion. Act
| ing upon this hypothesis I proceeded to ques-
| ton him, and his story was just what expected
| it to be. II was very straight narrative, and
said to my feliow-seekers after gore: We will
| let this poor devil 60; he has been a brave
man and has suffered much mutilation in order
/ that our glorious Union might be preserved
one and indivisible. He is not only MANNED
| crippled for iife-but he il q foreigner and far
| away from home Some Of the boys were OF
| the opinion that the man was fraud, so to
/ satisfy them and myself of the mans veracity !
| felt the stump OF the vanished arm. ! was con-
WINGED, and was about to dip into my pocket in
search of dollar to give the war-chewed
Teuton when an lrishman in my command
| stepped forward with the remark: 'Oi behave
| tn ould haythen has more arrums and ligs nor
| wan av thin cintipades.'
Very vigorously did he shake him, before l
| could interfere, and az q result of the stirring
| up We discovered that the arm which failed
| to 6nd was tied up in . sling behind the old
frauds back, while the stump which had fell
| was nothing but a round stone tied up in a
handkerchief. What did We do to him? Well
now, I really couldn't say, but l wouldn't be al
| all surprised If somebody kicked him at least
| once and with considerable force. He was SIM
/ ply an incident, however, in the struggle. We
/ wiped the whole brood out by threats and i'm
| prisonment, and the wanderers gave Omaha 9
| vide berth for long time thereafter"
THE RIDE TO ct. LOUIS.
/ We had . long ride today. The distance
from Omaha to St. Louis 10 476 miles and the
Rock Island people, over whose road the
special" ran, usually uses up three engines in
| making the run. Engineer Hart, however
1 worked the old reliable 1858 from one end o,
the route TO the other, making q record that i
i NOT likely 10 b, broken for some time to come
He labored under considerable disadvantage
i because the coal which had been supplied him
was not the kind Of fuel which the Pennsyl
| vania company's engines demand; 1t choked up
| the nues and was q nuisance generally. Fol
/ at least half the distance Hart could not raise
more than 30 pounds Of steam while 1858 can
| carry quite comfortably $50 pounds. Three OF
four Of the up grades were very trying and
| when We were about six miles from St. Louis
the train came 10 . standstill because steam
was almost entirely gone. few minutes res,
md good deal Of active firing brought the
wstery power mp 70 the requisite notch and
then ve sailed into St Louis ct decent rat<
Of speed. g. q. b.