The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-24

and apprehension that amounts to diStrac-
ton, as there is no feed and water, no cover
for,the bitter cold of night and the with
ering heat of day. The railroad is gorged
with business, and is temporarily inopera-
tive. The townsite is changed every hour
by rival parties as each secures temporary
domieile. Not building has been started
and but few more tents will be raised. No
body knows where the streets are and
everyone now is just yielding all things else
for the clamor for food, drink and shelter
and the means of light.
THERE Is TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT
over the disastrous wreck which occurred
Just south of the town during this fore
noon. A freight and passenger train met,
heads on and both engines went into the
ditch, but the track was blockaded for
hours. The water to operate the road
the tanlzman sold at 5 cents a pint,
as did the locomotive engineers from the
tanks of their engines. The railroad seems
to have been Frustrated and does not de-
liver the baggage of the suffering throng.
Pneumonia and sunstoke are beginning to
claim their victims, but the sick have
neither refuge nor sympathy. The whole
scene, in its countless, varied and painful
detail, is simply indescribahle. Here
stands big city out of doors and without
supplies. Only one train was left on the
Epace for a mouse on the floor or
sparrow on the roof Those who
could not get on cheered detiantly
as the train pulled out. Another just as
crowded pulled in from the north. The
Daily Nelus correspondent secureda footing
on the pilot Of the locomotive to reach Ar
kansas city, nearly eighty miles north, with
this dispatch.
ALONG THE ROUTE
during the hours of the haggard rice scores
of boomers wagons could be seen forg iGg
nOrthWard across the Cherokee strip ana
retracing the hard journey they had just
completed Probably thousands of them
will halt on the strip and try to force a set
Element. They are strapped and desperate,
and the government must yield this fine re-
giOn, now uselessly sequestered, or cause
great trouble to the government
The beauty and fertility of this strip, so
useless to the Indians and of profit only to
the cattle kings, have been remarked upon
heretofore by Daily Ne1Cs correspondent,
There seems nothing unreasonable in
opening it at once, and to do so will avert
the great trouble that now seems newt
able. There is a pressure of surplus driven
back here from Oklahoma, underwriting in
the territory the first chance to get
out, that must be relieved. The baffied
settlers here are earnest and undismayed
and they viii execute their purpose. The
troops in this region are fortunately in the
hands of Jack Hayes, an old frontiersman,
cool and discreet. There is nevertheless
going to be turmoil in the Cherokee strip
unless the government at Washington in
tervenes. CA
One boomer was hailed from the track as
to whether he was northWard bound. He
shouted Il am going back to my wife's
people, Everybody of whom inquiries
were made on the train declared he was
in the country and would
not put up with the suffering for
the chance of the slight gain. The
country is filed with gambling thimble
riggers and thieves and the shreWdest and
most INSCRIPTIONS scheming is practiced.
There were reports last night that three
men had been killed. 1t has settled down to
one man killed. The name and location were
given the Daily Ne1us representative and he
rode over to the scene, about three miles
west of Guthrie, and found the facts to be
that two men had divided equally their
disputed claim and We're sleeping in the
same tent.