The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-07-19

rived in this city this afternoon from
the southwest, where he had been on
business trip. He was one of the
passengers on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texa. train that was held up at
Adair, l. T., last night. He was
awake and witnessed the entire fight
aud has some very strong opinions
about the detectives and Indian police
on b ard the train. He character
yes their conduct as c)wardly in the
xlreme and deserving Of universal
condemnation. In speaking Of the
very exciting episode Mr. Hearn said ::
at was about 10 o'clock and every
one in the sleeper had tired except
myself. We were bowling along right
merriiy on the other side of Adair
and on stopping at that station l
glazed out of the window. l saw
some rather uncertain figures and a
wagon standing near. Then came a
few scattering shots and then the
batch of detectives piled out of the
coaches. Inside of ten minutes there
were no less than 200 shots exchanged,
and during that time the passengers
were secreting their valuables or
crouching low to avoid the rain of
bullets from ali sides. Then the firing
let up a little, and the valiant detec-
iives came tumbling in pell.mell, any
way to find shelter. Chief Detective
Kinney had a slight wound in the
fie, by parl of the left arm. There
seemed TO be about fifteen of the de-
tectives, and early iu the evening l
had noticed them and remarked what
fearless looking fellows they we're
Every one looked the typical bad
man and they were armed to the
teeth.
"a passenger aske 1 the chief if the
men were gone, and be answered that
they were in the car. Then some one
asked why the detectives were not
outside trying to prevent the robbery,
and they made scant reply. Several
suggested that they could waylay the
robbers IS they emerged from the car,
as by sciuai count they were only
eight of them, but the detectives only
replied by filing to safe pl ces behini
the seats and rear platform. / had
placed my watch and pocketbosk
under the end of the carpet on the
floor of the sleeper, but there were so
many detectives on the floor that l
thought the valuables would be safer
in my pocket. so | returned them to
their proper place. After awhile the
robbers dumped all the stuff they
wanted from the express car int the
spring wagon and upon the seats and
drove twice around the entire train,
firing as they went.
"All the time the detectives were
in their holes with the exception Of
one about 81 years OF age. He was
fighting al; the time until he received
a wound in the shoulder from one bull
let, while another plowed a furrow
across his br asst. Another msn was
shot through the left forearm, the bull
let passing on and striking mis- watch.
That stopped b;th the bullet aud the
timepiece. Afterward he laid the
watch out on a piece of peper: 1t
was in 60 many pieces that it could be
gathered up aud sifted through the
fingers. A stray bu let struck a ply
stefan in drug store up town, emitting
an artery in the thigh. They thought
when We left that he would bleed to
death. That batch Of detectives was
on the train in the expectation Of an
attempt being made at robbery, and
they were very brave until the time
came for action"