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N. The driver and conductor made

ran. The driver and conductor made
their escape, after being struck by
large number of stones. In less than
minute huge timbers had been placed
under the car. and a wild howl went up
from the mob when the tive-cenJ coach
toppled over across the tracks. The
two patrolmen who had come up on the
car did their best to protect it, but were
powerleSs i'll the face of the mob. Win
dowS in the car were broken. panels
knocked out and rods and bolts bent
and twisted.
This car was barely blocked before
the bowling mob turned its attention to
THE SECOND CAR.
which was then just stopping at the
corner of Tenth avenue. Half dozen
bottles filed with acid and vltriol were
thrown and, breaking in the car, ruined
the clothes of the officers. One bottle
foul or five terrible gashes the full
length of his face. While this was 60
ing on message had been sent to head
quarters for help, and just as the bottles
and stones came crashing into the car a
squad of mounted men and eight patrol
men came in sight.
THE POLICE APPEAR.
Lets tip the cars" shouted one man,
and in response to his words rush was
made and the car was laid on its side.
The struggling horses were released
and led away. The police made a
charge on the mob. and were met with
volley OF stones and clubs. Several OF
the patrOlmen and mounted men were
struck, and one or two of them were
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THEY ARE ALL SAFE.
The Passengers Of the Ill
Fated Danmapk Saved by
the Steamer Missouri,
Over Three Hundred of Whom
Will Be Landed in Phil
adelphia To-Day.
The Towns of West Depere
and Buekbee, Wis, De-
stroyed by Fire.
TI,r,ao May, DYY,,y,nI IN nno%h
Three Men Burned to Death
in a Detroit HOTEL
Forest Fires.

DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del.
April %, a. m.-The Missouri is an
chored a distance of from three to four
miles from this station. The sea is too
rough to admit of boarding the steamer
betors daylight with a small boat. She
is supposed to have large number of
the passengers of the ill-fated Dan
mark.
COPENHAGEN, April 21.-A telegram
from Lisbon to the United Steamship
company announces the safety of the
crew and passengers of the steamer
Danmark. The good tidings reach Lis
bon from the Azores. 1t is stated that
every one who was on the Danmark is
safe, and that only an engineer was in
jured. Some of the passengers arrived
at Lisbon to-day, number are on their
way to New York, and the remainder
are still at the Azores.
LISBON, April 21.-Forty-two of the
crew of the Danmark have arrived here
on the steamer Acor. Mr.. Raben, the
first officer, who is among them, reports
that on April + the Danmark's shaft was
broken. The next day the disabled
steamer met the steamship Mis-
souri, from London, March 2S,
for Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The Missouri towed the Dan
mark until the 9Th, when the latter
seemed to be about to sink. At first the
Missouri was only able to take aboard
twenty of the Danmark's passengers,
but after having jettisoned portion of
her cargo she found accommodations
for all the crew and passengers
of the Danmark. The Missouri
then proceeded to the Azores and left
there the first and second officers and
800 passengers. She then continued her
journey to Philadelphia with $40 passen-
gers and the remainder of the crew.
| The captain and three engineers of the
Danmark left the Azores on the 14th for
| London. The Danmark was about 500
miles from Newfoundland when the ac-
cident happened. Some say that
| the engine broke down. En-
gineer Kaas was found dead in
the engine room after the accident.
The captain and three engineers pro-
ceeded to London on board steamer
from Demerara. The death of the Dan
marks engineer was due to the burst
ing of an engine pipe. The engineer
was killed on the spot, and the ship
was badly damaged. In consequence
of this damage, together with the
breaking of the shaft, the vessel was
| helpless in the heavy seas that pre-
vailed
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night. The rougher element of the
Club of Help was in its glory and car
ried on its workiof destruction with an
energy that was painful TO witness.
Across the tracks near Seventeenth av-
enne was big wood cart. One block
further up was big lumber wagon.
and little further ON was big timber.
which must have required the united
effort of dozen men to carry. Rocks
of all kinds were scattered along the
line, and in some places the cobble-
stones between the tracks were torn up
and piled over the irons. In front of
the South Minneapolis Tabernacle were
two or three carts, bottom side up, while
huge rocks covered the rails for several
rods. At Twenty-feurth avenue and
TWenty-second street the
TRACK WAS ALL TORN UP
and piles of rocks covered the places
fourth avenue and Twenty-fourth
street more track was torn up. and the
rails lay in a twisted heap by the side
of the road. At Twentyseventh ave-
nue. and TWenty-fourth street the track
was all torn up around the curve, and
for several rods in each direction.
Across the street at the curve was a
deep trench, and in this trench were
piled twisted rails and big rocks. AS
the hack containing the reporter drew
| up. here one big broad-shOuldered man
| broke out:
Here's Tom Lowry. boys, let's pnt
| him in the trench and kill him."
A rush was made for the hack, but
the first man who came up recognizeC
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22
CAVALRY AT PURCELL
To QueIl Any Outbreak Which
May Occur.

; GUTHRIE, Ind. Ter, April 21.-De-
spite the orders relating to tOwnsite as
sociations, there are already outcrop-
pings of bad blood among those speculat-
ors who have been dreaming of wealth
to be found in cities founded by them.
In Purcell rival companies for the same
site across the river, known by one as
Lexington and by the other as East Pur-
cell, yesterday spread broadcast their
bills. Last night they issued incendiary
dodgers headed, 'Defend your rights
. with rifles if necessary" 1t
bill addressed 10 members of the
Oklahoma league was posted up warn
ing the members, ''by order of the
league" to prepare to hold the claims
and townsites selected and staked out
by them. This morning there were
signs of preparation and more firearms
were to be seen than any day hereto
fore. Two troops of cavalry were Or
dered to Purcell. They arrived about
noon and will prevent any actual out
break. The streets and hillsides of
that town are covered with men, four
ffthS of whom are spectators deter
mined to enrich themselves within the
next two days. 1t is possible that the
those who are inclined to vio-
lence. This is now hardly expected.
There is loud complaint that many of
the deputy marshals now in the terri
tory are only using their position for
the benefit of the townsite companies or
themselves. and it is thought that after
noon tomorrow there will be large de-
fections in their ranks. The settlers
seem to think that the deputies will re-
sign and take up claims. and having
been over the ground will have the adj
vantage of knowing the best locations,
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seriously injured for the time being.
The driver and conductor were scared
almost to death. and, dropping on their
knees, graSped Patrolmen MartinSon
and Volk around the legs, exclaimed:
For Gods sake protect US. Don't let
the crowd kill u.s."
"Get up and fight for your lives" re-
piled the patrOlmen, as they drew their
clubs and dashed into the crowd to as
sist the men commanded by Capt.
Harvey and Sergeant Volk in clearing
the street. One officer received rock
on the arm, and looked around just in
time to see the thrower prepare to let
drive with another. He pulled his gun,
but for some reason it failed to 90 off,
and the man who had tried to kill him
made good his escape. The rocks con-
tinued to pour into the policemen, and
MANY OF them, especially the mounted
men, got some hard knocks. After
A STRUGGLE FOR HALF AN HOUR
the street was cleared. Twenty-One
men had been arrested, some for tip
ping over the cars, two for throwing
bottles of acid, three or four for throw
ing stones at the officers, and one or
two for refusing to move on. Follow
ing are the names: Charles A. John
son, Gust Johnson, S. Olson, John Lam
ucll. r1Su 1dllSOll. Ole EIlChSOil. SlldSi
o. Hagen. James Sweeny, d. Danielson,
John Nelson, NJ. Strand, Peter Larson,
II. j. johnson. Ed Carlson, Frank
Johnson, Ole HeXton, j. Erickson. w.
A. Norman. A. Anderson, Erick Abel
and S. j. Turner. All are laboring men
except one. saloonkeeper. For half
an hour or more after the mob had been
broken up,
A LARGE CROWD
fingered around, talking in sullen tones
and now and then shaking their
fists at the officers, who kept people on
the move. The cars were allowed to
remain where they had been thrown,
and during the afternoon they were
viewed by thousands of curiosity seek
ers. One enterprising photographer,
NJ. NOvack, was on hand with his cam
era, and took number of views of the
cars and the crowds in order to perpet-
uate the memory of Easter Sunday, 1889,
in Minneapolis. The cars will be re-
moved this morning. when the tracks
will be cleared and the clubs and BRICK
hats Dicked M
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22
THE CARS Run SUNDAY.
AiotOr Trains and Street Cars
Keep Going Until Noon.

AiotOr Trains and Street Cars
Keep Going Until Noon.
When the good people of Minneapolis
started out to attend Easter services at
the various churches yesterday morn
Ing, they found the motor trains run
ming and cars in operation on all the
street car lines in the city, except en-
the Monroe avenue, Second street and
Cedar avenue lines. The cars were run
on fairly good time and were well pat
rOniZed. They were started at about
$50, under the protection of the police.
Two cars on the University line were
started out without police protection,
but when small crowds collected i'll
front of them, Oh the track.
the drivers stopped. and waited
until the. police came along and
took their positions. Along the lines
people kept gathering. and the crowds
were not small ones, either, owing to its
being Sunday, and the fact that every
laboring man in the city was on the
street. No difficulty was experienced
on any of the lines except the River
side, along which large numbers of la
boring men reside. AS the cars bOwled
along on that line an occasional stone
was thrown, and every short distance
the drivers had to stop and get the con-
ductors to help them remove the OBJ
structiOns, consisting of stones and tim
bers. The men running the cars on this
line were some of the alleged cowboys,
and carried their big revolvers with
them. As soon as the policemen ac-
comyanying the cars learned of this
they promptly took possession of the
guns. The other lines had no trouble
anywhere of any consequence, and it
seemed quite natural to see them run
ming again. The crowds along the
streets jeered and hoOted the new men
some, but no one seemed anxious to get
out in plain sight and do any yelling.
The motor trains were run on good
time and met with no incident of any
kind. There were a large number of
passengers on each train, and some
seemed apprehensive that some one was
going to blow up the train. or else run
them into ditch. But there was no
trouble, and every one was happy. Not
a striker was around the junction dur
ing the day, nor was an old man seen in
the vicinity of the street car barns.
The new men did fairly we'll in their
work, except on the most difficult lines,
where several cars jumped the track.
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IMMENSE NUMBERS MOVING.
And the Railroads Will Be Heav-
ilY Taxed.

WIcCITA, Kas., April 2e.-The first
train south on the Santa Fe, consisting
of fifteen coaches, arrived to-day, and
there was not standing room in the
coaches. People filled the spaces be-
tween the cars and clung to the
steps. One enterprising boomer
rode in on the cow-catcher. The crowd
choered him as the train entered the
depot. There were about 400 people
on the train. Arrivals to-day number
at leastf 5000. OF this number about
One-third went south to reach the line
word Go" Others went to Pur-
cell. Railroad officials are greatly
worried over the prospects of moving
so many people tomorrow. The side
tracks are filled with fiat cars, cattle
cars. and a gravel train is also in the
collection. Everything on wheels will
be utilized if necessary. Thieves are
busily at work on the trains,
and many poor boomer has been
feeced of his all. Among the VIC
TINS who have complained of being
robbed are Elijah Brambaugh, of Iowa,
and Edward S. Trawn, of Nebraska.
There are no less than fifty professional
thieves under surveillance by the de-
Baker," who did clever business in
the lightning chain act'' in Pennsyl-
vania in 1885. The Crescent town
site company, with most of its MEM
bers from Iowa. had representative at
work on each train this morning in the
interest of the scheme. About 1000
boomers listened to a sermon this morn
ing delivered by preacher known as
Aaron Mitchell, of Southeast Kansas.
The mayor of Arkansas City issued a
proclamation permitting stores to be
| kept open to-day, for the conven-
fence of the boomers. They were well
patroniZed. Tonight the people are
preparing to enter the promised land
along the line. John Murphy, mem
ber of the improvement company, met
john Horton, a member of the league,
at o'clock this morning, and
quarrel followed. 1t was stopped
by a party of the friends
of each, but revolvers and Win
chesters were called into requisition,
and firing was kept up in the main
streets of Purcell until daylight. The
contendiHg parties being under cover
the firing did not result as seriously as
it was feared it might. Three of the
town-site men were injured, Ton Myers
being shot in the head, Joe Martin in
the arm and one Simpson, colored, was
struck in the leg. At daylight the
fighting ceased.
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The Oklahoma Boomers Ready
to Enter the Promised
Land To-Day.
Confusion and Turmoil EX.
peeted to Reign Supreme
at First,
And Officers Of the Army Fear
There Will Be Consider
able Bloodshed.
Project on Foot for the Gem
ePal Confiseation Of Set
tiers Arms.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
On THE OKLAHOMA LINE, by Cour-
ier, via Arkansas City, Kan, April 21.-
The boomers Sabbath has been quiet
as well as happy one, with only few
hours between them and the green Ell
dorado in which their hopes ale cen
tered. They are experiencing the first
feeling of contentment they have felt
in many day. They will all be ready
to go when the signal is sounded at noon
tomorrow, and, if they carry out
their present plans, it is safe
to predict the most of them
viii be comfortably settled on home
steads before the sun goes down. They
will have a race with cowboys and spec
ulators for the fertile fields along the
banks of the Cimarron, but as the ones
who are going into the interior are well
mounted, they are confident of finally
winning the homes for which they have
been struggling so many years. Capt.
Hayes, who is here on the line with his
company of troopers, rode down toward
the Rock Island track to-day to consult
with Capt. Woodson relative to the best
means 10 De adopted lOf
PREVENTING BLoODSHED.
The captain has tried to find out
something about the plans of the boom
ers, but the latter have been reticent in
talking to him. Each man knows what
he is going to do, but is afraid to say
anything about it, lest his neighbor
might profit by his words. Capt. Hayes
regards the silence as ruinOus, for he
believes it will result in confusion and
turmoil, and finally. in bloodshed. He
is now considering the advisability of
disarming every man along the line, and
if Capt. Woodson acquiesces in his
views, he will send out his whole
troop, with orders to search
wagons and confscate all fire.
arms that are found. 1t the
plan is adhered to, the captains collec-
ton of shooting implements will be the
wagon on the Cherokee strip that does
not contain Winchester, shot gun or
a brace of siX-shooters. Even the
schooner" manned by the three pretty
Blackburn sisters has its armament
ready for action. The boomers did lit
tie this afternoon but hunt for shelter
from the sun, which came down like
midsummer. Tonight camp fires are
burning low and only a few shadowy
figures are IN sight. Nearly everybody
is asleep. They need rest to be able to
join successfully in to-morrow's con-
fuSiOn and turmoil
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the reporter, and, turning to the mob,
said:
sit is all right, boys, this is only a re-
porter: he is all right
The crowd was about as tough a look
ing one as could be we'll imagined. 1t
was composed of young men, mainly,
who bore evidences of hard labor. That
they were
DETERMINED TO DO VIOLENCE
was evident. AS the hack started off,
| one of them baWled out:
I You can say in the paper in the
morning that during the night lot of
| track on the Cedar avenue line was torn
up and that the turntable was smashed.
| There will be no cars run on this line
for some time to come if we can help
it. No man from the street car barn
| dare show himself around here"
-Four patrolmen guarded the barn all
| night, and more than once prevented a
| crowd from getting at it. The crowd of
! men who are tearing up track and do
ing other violence in South Minneapolis
| are desperate, and if the chance offers
| will not stop at anything.
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was partly mail car. There were also
ten freight cars. A flange of the wheel
on the last freight car broke, letting
down the remainder of the train and
spreading the track. The train was
thus dragged about one hundred feet,
at which place trestle across Cedar
creek was reached. At this point the
last two coaches plunged down the
bank about thirty feet. The mail car
caught fire, from which four span Of
piling ignited and was soon consumed
by the flames. Among the number in
jured were the following: Express
Messenger Rogers, limbs broken. The
mail agents shoulder blade was broken,
and he was injured internally. The
conductor. Robert Colville, of Peoria, is
dying. Clifton Reed, brakeman, is
badly injured. Four passengers were
dangerously wounded. Will Savage,
of Berwick, was found dead. 1t IS
thought that woman was on board the
train. If so, she was burned with the
coach
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ENTIRELY DESTROYED.
West Depere, Wis.,, Suffers Ami
hilation by Fire.

n1laCiOn Dy FIRE.
DEPERE, Wis, April 21.-At p. m.
Saturday the Meisenwinkle Wooden
Ware company's factory caught fire,
burning the sheds containing slaves
and stock, and, in fact, everything in
the town. While it was burning a
heavy wind set in and blew sparks and
Goals of fire on to neighboring houses
and making the largest fire ever seen in
this city. Twenty dwelling houses
were burned. The total loss on the
dwellings and contents will probably
amount to 100000 or more, and it is
said that not one quarter is covered with
insurance. The Meisinwinkle works,
where the fire originated, have loss of
about $4,000 with an insurance of $780,
600. When the fire first started the
Green Bay fire engine was sent for and
arrived shortly after the fire started.
The Green Bay and the Depere steam
ers were set in the middle of the burn
ing district and were doing good work,
when the wind changed suddenly and
hemmed the engines in, driving the fire
all to that immediate vicinity. The fire.
men had to abandon the engines and
they were burned up. The steamers
from Oshkosh and Appleton arrived at
II p. m, and succeeded in getting the
fire under control. Depere is city
composed of two parts-East and West
Depere. West Depere is the partwhich
caught fire, and to-day there is not
enough left of it to be identified. The
people who were burned out have
nearly all been taken un der shelter by
their neighbcrs of the East side. The
full loss is estimated to be more than
$500 600.
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IMPATIENT TO MOVE.
Boomers on the Southern Borders
Restlessly Waiting.

PURCELL, I. T., April 21.-Final
preparations were made to-day for the
exodus which will begin tomorrow.
Wagons were overhauled, supplies pur-
chased, and guns and tools given care
full inspection. The day was lovely,
but there was no suggestion of Sunday
in the street scenes. From the
hill overlooking the beautiful val
toned bell called those religiously in
cIined to worship in the Catholic mis-
sion of st. Augustine. In the town
itself there are two Insignificant church
structures, but they are not centers of
attraction to-day. The supreme mo-
mentls so near at hand that the thOus-
andS who have spent weary months in
waiting can hardly contain them
selves. At s o'clock this morning
the public square contained a
large assemblage, and by 10 o'clock
the throng had Swelled to such an eX-
tent that passage was exceedingly
difficult. Several prominent men were
induced to mount lmprOviSed platforms
and harangue the crowd on the great
issue of the day. Judge Green. of Ken
tucky. the only man in town who wears
store clothes and silk hat, spoke for
half an hour. The people wanted light
on the townsite, school land and other
questions connected with the OPEN
ing of Oklahoma, and he dispensed
it with apparent knowledge of the situa-
ton. The judge is charged by many
with being mixed up in townsite
schemes, and is not, therefore, deemed
above giving advice which, if followed.
would result to his personal advantage.
He and others were surprised to dis
cover this morning placards pasted
about town bearing this inscription re-
garding the late order made at the reg
ular meeting of the Oklahoma Legion:
Resolved, That we again pledge ourselves
to protect our brother members in their long
respected rights on selected claims, and that
ali townsite sharks and claim jumpers shah
be dealt.with in summary manner.
OKLAHOMA LEGION.
As the town is full of the gentry
named in the notice, much uneasiness
has been caused. There have been any
number of attempts to discredit the ex-
iStence of the Oklahoma legion, but
that it does exist, and will WELD a tre-
mendouS power in the near future, is
conceded by many. Tonight in
Purcell the strain on the wait
ing thousands of boomers seemed
almost unbearable. The situation
in Purcell tells the story for the south
ern border of Oklahoma, of which Pur-
cell is on the edge. Along the entire
north line of the promised land the lat
est advices show that the conditions
there tonight are even more exciting
than in the south. 1t is estimated that
on the north side of Oklahoma tonight
over $4,000 people are camped in the
darkness waiting for to-morroW's per-
mission to ''go up and possess the
land"