The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-19
TRAGEDY ON A RAILWAY.
Terrific Battle Fought on a Nov
ing Passenger Train.
TWO PERSONS SHOT DEAD.
Officers Have a Desperate Fight with
Prisoner and His Friends.
The Sheriff Is Killed, His Deputy Thrown
from the Train and Dangerously
Hurt-He Holds His
Prisoner.

LOUISVILLE, March ia terrible
passenger train this morning before day
light at HELPS Point, one mile and half
east of Newcomb, in Campbell county,
Tenn, in which Sheriff John Burnett OF
Campbell county. was killed. Deputy
Sheriff John Dali, and Crusoe Smith,
mortally wounded, and Jesse Jones sus-
tanned several serious injuries. Sheriff
Burnett and Deputy Sheriff Dali went to
Jellico yesterday to arrest miner by the
name of Jesse Jones. The arrest was
made on the Tennessee side of the line,
not far from Jellico, and soon afterward
number of miner friends of Jones, came
to the rescue and succeeded in taking him
away from the officers.
They then fastened to the Kentucky
side and babe defiance to the Tennessee Of
ficers, who deemed it prudent not to cross
the line. When the train left Jellico this
morning the officers were aboard on their
return home. Just after passing New
comb Conductor Brown passed through
the smoking car and found the water
closet locked. He suspected that Jones
was in there hiding from the officers. for
he had got on at Jellico and paid fare to
Elk Valley.
The conductor demanded that the party
on the inside should open it. The door
opened and Jones was found inside when
the sheriff arrested him and took him to
seat and began to search him. Deputy
Dali was sitting close to the sheriff and
prisoner. BY the stove was seated an old
man named Smith, evidently friend of
Jones. Another man, clad like miner,
carried a big Winchester in his lap,
which he handled rarvcuslV
Near the center was another friend OF
Jones named Crusoe Smith, who at
tempted to draw pistol on Sheriff Bur-
nett, but was prevented from using the
weapon by Deputy Sheriff Dali. The
elder Smith then rushed at Dali, and the
unknown man opposite commenced to
fire upon the officers. The sheriff was
another entering his body in close
proximity to the heart, either ofwhich
would been fatal.
In the meantime Deputy Sheriff Dali
freed himself from the elder Smith and
opened fire, but he was overpowered and
rushed to the rear platform of the car and
was thrown of, his assailants jumping
after him while the train was rolling
swiftly along. The train was stopped by
the conductor as quickly as possible and
run back to the point where the shooting
commenced.
Dali was found wandering about in a
partially dazed condition and it was
found that he had been shot in the tenn
pie, receiving very dangerous wound.
Crusoe Smith and Jesse Jones were
found lying by the side of the railroad as
if dead, but they soon recovered con-
seriousness. One of Jones' arms was
broken and he was injured about the
head. Crusoe Smith is in critical condi-
ton, being shot in the breast and stom-
ach and his right arm broken.
Dali sufficiently recovered to take
charge of Crusoe Smith and Jones. What
became of the elder Smith is not known.
He probably fed as did the unknown
man who commenced the shooting, both
having no doubt jumped from the train
at the time their confederates did.