The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-19

motives combined III roar similar 10 tnaC
accompanying the progress of tornado.
In the race many men were injured and
some killed. Of the latter some met death
by accident and two were murdered. The
details of the crimes are not known, put
the dead bodies--One stabbed and the other
shot through the head-tell the manner of
death. Many dead horses have been found
on the prairie. Some died of Over-eXertlOn,
some were killed by failing in the race,
and Others received broken limbs in the
rough prairie, were shot by their owners.
Four Populous Towns,
Tonight, the strip which twelve hours
ago was wholly deserted, is populous
country. -Four of the new town sites have
populations estimated at 5000 each: Others
boast populations ranging from lUOO to
5000. Every desirable claim has at least
one claimant and may have two to four.
Contests will. of course, be numerous.
The reports of crimes resulting from the
settlement of the land are few and the gov
eminent officers, who superintendent the
opening, are "ongratulating themselves up
on the comparatively peaceable manner in
which the settlement was made. The I'M
fortunate occurrences We're the shooting
down of ''SOOners' near Saltwater, .. T.,
and Arkansas City, Kans. The soldiers
who did the shooting were instructed to
prevent ''sooners," at all hazards and they
point to their orders i'll justification of their
action
Wagon and freight loads of supplies fol
lowed the settlers into the strip. The
teams distributed provisions at the various
county seats and town sites. where stores
have been opened in canvas tents, pending
the erection of buildings Camp fires dot
the praires in all directions tonight, where
the home seekers have established temper
AIRY camps. The recent drought has closed
up the streams and those who failed to pro-
vide themselves with water were forced to
endure suffering from thirst, for water is Oh
tainable in only a few places on the strip,
except from the rivers.
DR.. Gallagher of the general land office
has received instructions from Washington
10 keep the registration booths open until
further orders and to issue certificates to
all who We're unable to obtain them before
noon today.
The Scenes at Guthrie.
Guthrie. o. r., September 16.-The
scenes that We're enacted here today beggar-
ed all descriptions. People fought like
wild animals to get aboard trains to get
into the Cherokee strip and hundreds were
injured, some fatally.
Men forgot their manhood and women
lost their self-respect in the wild struggle
for advantage.
the trains, one man had his shoulder broken
one q dislocated leg, anda woman an arm
broken. Twenty others We're badly tram
pied upon.
a mighty shout went up as the first train
moved out over the prairie, followed by a
to the town site of Perry was made in forty
minutes. but when the trains came in sight
of the town two-thirds of the best lots were
taken by "SO0nerS. HOrSemen We're pour
ing in down over bluff to the cas-, at the
rate of fifty minute. Those on the first
train secured some business lots and those
on the second some residence lots in the
outskirts. but the 1000 in the other trains
got nothing. 1t was Il wild and exciting
race all the way between the trains and
hOrspmpn m ~ of
horses.
W. c. Ramsey, of Eldnrado. Kan. was
the first horscman to arrive from the south
line. and he staked a fine corner lot at Dds
He says Il large portion of the town site
was taken by "sooners," who were walking
leisurely into the town from the west when
he arrived
The "Sooners" Got the Best
Carl Craig. of Guthrie, made the run
in twenty five minutes and was the first
man TO file, securing a claim adjoining the
the townste north. worth $1,000. The land
office men We're new hands and worked
bunglingly, making only seven filings IN
TWO hours
At l o'clock over five hundred people were
In line at the land office and the line soon
claims in the strip are held by 'sooners'
and innumcrable contests are the result.
One unknown woman fell from the
second train near Wharto and was fatally
injured Lorenzo Holcomb, of Mulball, Q.
T., was fatally crushed by his horse fall
ing upon him and John Mccain had his
leg broken. but afterwards rode six miles
and secured Il good lot. At one bad gully
on the trail three cOnveyances were wrecked
and six horses and one mule killed. An
other nan was fatally injured near by.
All along the line are strung wrecked
vehicles and MANI injured people are being
brought into Orlando and other towns along
the line.
The first legal settlers to arrive at Perry
found the town in the possession of soon
trS," and most of the stakes pulled up and
destroyed. BY mistake the land office had
been built on square of private lots and
things are in such confusion that tonight
the streets, alleys and all are being held
by lot stakers
The whole affair ha. been badly man.
aged from beginning to end AMI there are
ioud denunciations of the United States
marshals and Secretary Smith FOR the
shameful abuses that have been allowed.
Hundreds of people left in disgust to.
night, but there are still 10000 people
there holding lots on the site and all over
the adjoining claims.
At Saltwater about 10000 people entered.
but as they scattered much the casualties
were not numerous or serious. Only one
man is reported killed and one injured.
At HennpSSey the struggle to get on the
train was nearly as bad as at Orlando and
one man was badly hurt. Ten thousand
people went to the TOWNSHIP OF Enid.
An Indians Description.
An Indian who stood upon hill and
viewed the whole race expressed the entire
situation in the following terse way:
white man heap fool; train no good:
horse beat train; man on foot who comes
sneak beat horse. Ugh