San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-03-31


"What's wrong?n
IA number of those tramps who
wore bounced at Big Rock to-day
have reached here and have taken
possession of two empty freight cars
on tho siding The whole crowd
Is half drunk and raising Cain"
"If they have shelter and some
thing to drink they won't be apt to
bother you tonight However, I'll
sit up with you for awhile for COM
pany's sake. Are your firearms
loaded?"
''Yes. The gang appears to have
four or five revolvers, and two bullets
have been fired through the window. -
well, don't show any light, and
you had better bunk down on your
cot. The fellows will get over their
hilarity pretty soon"
1t was five minutes before l heard
from her again. The engine of the
! freight train was standing almost OPP
/ pOsite the door, and during the inter-
val | went out and reused the sleep
ing engineer and fireman and told
! them what was going on at Lone
Pine. If things got desperate with
the little woman | proposed to take
/ half dozen of the mechanics and 90
up to her relief When she called
me again she said:
lone Of the gang has routed me up
and demanded whisky and something
to cat When | ordered him away
he made threats of what he would
do.
Don't get shaky, | replied. 'It's
probably bluff. Construction No. 8
is lying here, and in case you need
help lot of us will come up on the
engine. Wen have a clear road and
can mako 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 lightning
dash with us.
you remember the old caboose
car at the end of the side track"
queried the little woman at Lone
Pine.
Yes"
well, they have made a bonfire of
it, and it's blazing away even this
rain. There are fourteen of the fell
lows and the toughest lot I've ever
seen. think they mean TO attack
the house. Hadn't you better come
down."
Il don't want to take the RESPONSE
bility unless It is positively necessary.
You are expected to stand them eff II
you can. No one will blame you if
you wipe out the whole gang Talk
right up to them if they come TO the
house"
Three or four minutes slipped
away, and then she announced that
they had given her five minutes in
which to surrender. and that one of
the empty freight cars had been fred
They can't set fire to the house
with the water falling like this, -
replied. You have stout shutter
at the window, and they can only
attack by way of the door, If at all.
They can't shoulder it in with TWO
bars across it, and if they bring up
battering-ram you want to fire on
them through the lower panels
What was to be the last message
came about ten minutes later
They brought up a beam, telc-
graphed the little woman. land I
gave them the buckshot through the
lower panels. think | hit three or
four. Some of them arc now firing
into the house. while others are
bringing up firebrands to burn mo
out
Coming don't give up.n I ratified
of to her, and thirty seconds later
the engine was moving away with
our crowd We had wet track but
a clear run. and after the first two
miles we simply flow. We had some
fear that the fellows might have
turned the switch or pushed freight
car down on the main track. but no
such idea had occurred to them. We
went through two miles of snow she'd
ding like a rocket shooting along Il
tube, and when we popped out of the
eastern end we were among the
tramps. The first two cars were
blazing away and a fire had just been
started in third. Firebrauds we're
piled up against the house at three
different places, and three or four
fellows with revolvers were blazing
away at the door and windows.
Before the engine had come TO a
stop we dropped off and began shoot
inc To kill. and in five minutes we had
cleaned out the gang. Perhaps you
remember the way that certain news
papers pitched into us about that af-
fair, calling it massacre and howl
ing for our arrest. There were four
killed and seven wounded. Three
mon were hurt when the little woman
fred through the door. know what
became OF the killed. for | helped to
bury them, but the wounded were
taken Fast that afternoon. When the
little woman opened the door to us
she had her revolver in her left hand.
because one of the stray bullets had
passed through the palm of her right
She had also been grazed on the
shoulder, and two bullets had passed
through her clothing. She had fired
both barrels OF the shotgun and eley-
en- bullets from the revolver and was
doing bravely well when we turned
the scales. And did she continue at
Lone Pine? Oh, no. A division su-
pcrintendent fell in love with her, re-
aroused the tender passion in her
breast, and away she went to settle
down on the Pacific slope and become
a nobody-that is, she couldn't be
heroine any Chicago Herald.
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