Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-09
SCENES AT THE RING.
The Scramble for the Cars and Rush for
the seats at Richbnrg.

fight is over. Kilrain has been fairly
squarely, honestly and honorably
whipped in contest in which the beater
man has no cause to be ashamed of hi.
defeat. There is no manner of doubt
that Jake KilraIn is game mar
and good fighter, and men who saw
him fight to-day viii put up their money
on him next time he enters the ring
against any living man except Sullivan
No account of this much talked of con-
test will be complete unless the thread OF
the narrative is taken up at the time OF
the departure from New Orleans Monday
morning at l: 80 o O'clock.
The rush fog admission to the fifteen
coaches waS something indescribable
| Thousands of men were at the depots be-
fore the hour OF the announced time OF
! the departure and madly jostled each
other for a favorable position. When
the doors were fairly open the crush was
frightful and o-hundred- pound men
were lifted off their feet and suspended
in the air by the mere force of the for
ward and backward pressure. 1t took
nearly two hours to seat the S15 ticket
holders, but there was not room for all
of them, and some had
| TO OCCUPY CAMP STOOLS.
| The anxiety to see the fight amounted
| to almost frenzy, and those who were
without means to pay SO or S15 trans
| portatiOn and admission took the chance
of losing their lives in attempting to steal
a ride. Just before the Sl5 train started
from New Orleans it was discovered that
scores of men and boys had concealed
themselves on the cross-beams connect
ing the wheels whilE others hung on to
the long iron rods connecting the trucks.
A greater number, however, were
perched on the roof of the cars, in some
cases as many as twenty-five to a coach
These interlopers were discovered and
driven off by the police before starting,
but once the train was in motion they
swarmed back like so many flies, and re-
manned to the end of the Journey. A re-
markable feature of this daring per-
Torrance is that 80 per cent. of the fool
hardy actors in it were beardless boys,
ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen
But the most reckless deed of all was
that of three young rascals who concealed
themselves on the inner side of the cow
catcher and
WERE NEVER DISODGED.
The ring was pitched at Richburg in a
clearing on the edge of a pine forest near
the little village, which is l02 miles
from New Orleans and ninety-six from
Meridian on the Queen and Crescent
road. The ring was pitched on a patch
of green turf and surrounding it on three
sides were tiers of seats ten feet
high put up by an enterprislng
local Spectator who charged 81 for the
privilege of a seat. Unfortunately,
however, he occupied the space set aside
for the inner ring seat holders, and those
who had paid SIS for accommodations
there claimed the right to sit in the i'm
prOVised amphitheater without extra
charge. The local man who had
taken the risk of receiving 81 for occu-
pancy of the seats appealed to the crowd
to pay him, and made the point that the
gentlemen who were occupying them
were in honor bound to accept his terms
The crowd jeered at this suggestion, and
those who in their anxiety to get seats
had paid So repented their rashness.
Four-ffths of the seating capacity of the
rink was filed by the SIS crowd, some
one hundred in number, who arrived on
the battle ground an hour before the
$40 people came along. It was
o clock when the first train reached
Richburg, but even at that early hour
the three upper rows of seats were found
occupied by Viclksburgers who had set on
THEIR ELEVATED PERCHES
since daylight waiting for the show to be-
gin. The assembled multitude sat boil
ing under the blaze of the hot sun.
Those who had umbrellas were
allowed to open them, but the |
intimation was plain that when |
the fight began the umbrellas would |
have to go. The general aspect of the |
crowd was anything But tough. The |
hoodlum element was largely outnum- |
bered by an eminently respectable |
crowd. Professional; merchants, bank |
ers, some from New Orleans, others from |
states, were present to a
preponderating degree. Many of the |
spectators came from points as far dis
tant as San Francisco in the West and |
New York and Boston in the East, but |
these were mostly of the sporting variety,
bookmakers, gamblers, professional
pugilists, etc.
While the holders of gilt edge tickets
at SIS each were disembarking and
for places of vantage at the
ring, the SO people on the second train
were having experiences between New
Orleans and the battle ground at 2:40
o clock the tram which was booked to
leave at 2 o'clock started. and then
those who had secured seats
settled themselves comfortably, many
going to sleep. Those who were
with tickets felt i'll at
ease, fearing each moment that the con-
1uctor would demand tickets On the
roofs of the coaches quite a number of
deadheads
HAD TAKEN REFUGE
and withstood the clouds of dust and Gin
lers as best they could. The train
reached q point within mile of Slidell
Station when it was discovered that there
vas no more coal. The engine was de-
-ached from the train and ran five miles
up the road, where q supply of coal was
After a delay of half an
lour the train again started and
'unning at the rate of about thirty miles
IN hour passed Bailoo Station, where a
arge crowd cf men who had come out
IN the Sunday excursion train TO witness
he fight were seen standing disappointed
beside the track. Just beyond this sta
ion IS the West Pearl river trestle and
about hundred men and boys had
placed themselves here in order TO jump
N the train when the speed of
he engine. was slaekened. OF these