Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-02-10


thing 70 drink they won't be apt I
bother you tonight However, l.
sit up with you for a while for con
rauy's sake. Are your firearms loat
od?
''ics. The gang appears 10 hav
four or five revolvers, aud Two bullet
have been fired through the window.
"Well, don't show any light, an
Won had better bnnk down on YOU
cot. The fellows will get over thci
llilariIy pretty soon"
II was five minutes before hear,
from her again. Tie engine Of lh
freight train was standing almost op
posilc the door, aud during the inter
val went out aud reused tho slecpin;
engineer and fireman and told then
what was going on at Loae Pine. Il
things got desperate with the It'll,
woman | proposed to take half
dozen of tho mechanics aud go up L
her reliof. When she called me agaii
she said:
Zone of the gang has routed me ~
and demanded whiskey and somcthin.
TO eat When ordered him away HI
made threats Of what they would do.
"Dcn't get shaky," replied. "Irl
probably a bluff Construction No
s is lying here. and in case you neet
help a lot of us will come up on lh,
engine. Well have clear road anG
can make it in fifteen minutes"
1t was seven minutes before she
called again. The locomotive had
been fired up, and the fireman had
gone back TO the caboose and routed
out six men who had revolvers, and
they were ready TO make dash with
us.
"fou remember the old caboose car
at the end of the side track ?" quericd
the little woman at Lone Piue.
"Yes."
"Well, they have made bonfire of
it, and it's blazing away even in this
rain. There are fourteen of the fell
lows and the toughest lot I've ever
seen. / think they mean 10 attack the
house. Hadn't you better come up?''
"l don't want to take the response
bility unless II is positively necessary.
You arc expected to stand them of il
You can. No one will blame you il
you wipe out the whole gang. Talk
right up to them if they come to the
house.
Three osfour minutes.slippcd away,
aud then she announced that they had
given her five minutes in which to
surrender, aud that one of the empty
freight cars had been fired.
"They can't set fire 10 the house
with the water falling like this | re-
piled. "You have stont shutter Mt
the window, and they c,n only attack
by way of the door, if at all. They
can't shoulder it in with Two bars
across ii, aud if they bring up bat
terins ram you want 10 fire on them
through the lower panels"
What was TO be The last message
came about ten minutes later.
"rhcy brought up beam,' tele.
graphcd the little woman, "and | gayo
hem the bucksllot through the lower
panels. think / hit three or four.
Some Of them are now firing into the
house. while others are bringing up
lirebrands to burn Inc out"
Coming don't give upl" rat
lied of 10 her, and thirty seconds later
The engine was moving away with our
crowd. We had wet track, but a
clear run, aud after Tie first two miles
we simply few. We mad some fear
that the fellows might have turned the
switch or pushed a freight car down
on the maiu track, but no such idea
had occurred to them. We went
through two miles of snow shedding
like u rocket shooting along tube,
aud which we popped out at the east
crn end we were among tie lramps.
The two cars were blazing away, and
fire had Just been started in third.
Fiicbrands were piled up against the
house at three different places. and
three or four fellows with rcvOlyers
were blazing away at the door and
window.
Before the engine had come to a
sop we dropped of and began shoot
ing TO kill, aud in five minutes we had
cleaned ont The gang. Perhaps you
remember the way that certain news
papers pitched into us about that
affair. calling il massacre, sud howl
ing for our arrest. There were four
killed and seven wounded. Three
men were hit when the little woman
fired through the door. know what
became of the killed, for helped to
bury them, but the wounded were
taken East that afternoon.
When the little woman opened tho
door TO us she had her revolver in her
Jeff hand. because one of the stray
bullets had passed through the palm
of her right. she had also been grazed
OH tile shoulder, aud two bullets had
passed through her clothing. She had
fired both barrels of the shotgun and
eleven bullets from the revolver, and
was doing bravely when we turned
the scales. Aud did she continue at
Lone PineP Oh, no. A division su-
periutendent fell in love with her, re-