The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-17
Wild RUSH OF BOOMERS
The Cherokee Strip 0verrun
by Racing Hordes.
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED.
Between Noon and Twilight 100000
Claims Are Staked.


score-Many Accidents Reported-Twd
Women jump from Moving Trains-srea
Shot by Unseen Hauds-1oO,o00 Homea
and Scores OF Cities Sprung Into Beings
Disgust for the Government Methods.
GUTHRIE. o. T.. Sent 1o.-A rising sun looked
down upon six million acres Of virgin soil
devoid Of o single inhabitant In setting 10
cast its rays over q hundred thousand
established homes. Between tho rising and
setting a half score cities had been born.
Texans. Kansans. Missourians. Arkansans,
white men. black men. and red men, all played
. part to-day.
Two hundred thousand people camred upon
the border Of tho land last night and early
morning trains brought many thousands
more large force Of clerks had registered
everybody In line last night. and this morning
newcomers had no trouble in getting certins
Gates.
The greatest number OF certificates issued
| at any one place the southern line Of the
strip was $4,000 at Orlando. Hennessy came
next with close to 10000. and saltwater with
1900.
Tho largest crowd to-day was at Orlando,
| and four ffths Of the 10000 people massed
there were bound for Perry, the county seat OF
P county, which is tonight tho largest city In
all Oklahoma.
was one long to be remembered. The house,
tops OF prairie schooners fires Of camping
boomers. and tethered horses gave tho scene
a military aspect. There was considerable
confusion early In the evening. caused by
many new arrivals. who were seeking advans
| tageous places for the race.
Those who have been waiting on the border
for days looked upon newcomers as inter-
lopers and would not give way one inch Of
fhair nd {1l-fa in
as a consequence. and In some instances So
! rious trouble was narrowly avoided.
Just at the same moment, at high noon. the
thousands in railway trains. on foot. in wage
| ons. on ponies. and on race horses. went over
the line in one mad. wild rush, scattering over
the country like cloud OF grasshoppers. They
ran as though for life, over Rullies and ridges.
and the wonder was that hundreds were not
killed. The soldiers at no place had any trou-
Bile with the crowd. 1t was an American gaths
ering and acted as a check upon ITSELF
The signal for the start at every place was
the firing OF the guns OF the soldiers and deps
uty marshals
| The greatest struggle OF the day took place
in the rush Of ten thousand people attempting
| to get aboard the first train. which could carry
but q few over thousand.
Thousands Of people had stood and sat along
the track all night, go as to be nearest the
leaving point whom the trains made up. and
thousands M orc crowded in upon them during
the morning When the trains arrived at Or
lando from the south scores OF deputy United
States marshals entered the cars and drove
the people out swearing. cursinC. and waving
clubs and guns.
Men were pushed of upon the ground. wo.
men jostled rudely. and tho cars cleared OF oil
save few favortes in the ring. The people
in the first train were told that everybody
must go up to the line to get in the trains. and
hundreds walked through mile OF strangs
ling dust to the line. only to find the train FROM
which they had been elected go by them withS
The, first train was filled with people who
had had been given inside Information The
tary Smiths order ' to wait Upon the line for
the FIRTH left sAndng :s ths1 Sn the
srsHs pulled W to ss linz the
and undsr ioS
w.ss aa and Ss and
struggle ed like 80 many wild animals. At last
hs bs psoDS wer nsY Ss
The first train into Perry found the best lots
tho time. the second train arrived 70 ost Of tho
town site was preemptGd; sly the pe9PiS
Before night business houses were doing
g.ass a dh g.. lst s S fs.dsn e:
ond and d third SECURED nothSs upon ''
The race between the the trains and horaeme9
Perry from, the line was W. II .Kamseysr Of
lot. He says Hundreds Of sooners were leisure.
iyWHlkins int the town site from the wes, and
nshts IS felt hat the eGe @
the part OF the Goyernment. both national and
The people are cursing the ADMINISTRATION
roundIy which ssioTed, brutal abuse, shane
and thous ands of sooners to come IN before
the given time,
ONCE first and filed his registration ut 1870,
and by O'Clock GOO were In line there. AZ
ds IT, s5 5s s sfa VS. Ss WIT blnR
ready to do business: tho darlington Miller
Lumber Company opening thor yards i've
The old stage route from tho. line to Perry.
c MsGon haa Several Very T cfossne
and at onegucht twenty vehicles were wrecked.
The Rev. John II. Angler OF Mu!hall was badly
lorenzo Holcomb OF tho same place was IA
tally crushed by horse falling uron lin.
One woman was Injured in falling from u inov@
4 cowboy from Texas fell from MS horse.
The trail is lined with broken down wagons
and buggies and hundred dead horses he
adjoining hills.
Three extra train loads OF people left Perry
tonight. but there are lJ.UOu people stu leit
and more coming in with supplies OF every
kind
The water in tho Government wells was
strong with salt. yet the people drank them
dry In forty minutes.
: At Saltwater the crowd numbered about
1000 most, q whom, went into the Sa,,Ypps3
country and scattered ono man was Killed
there and several badly injured
At Hennessy about 1000 people. were
town site OF Enid. and the same scenes were
enacted as at Perry one mani reported shot
over a town-lot quarrel and one woman ina
jurcd by throwing herself from train.
Il. Ham Of Paul's Valley beat the train on Q
bicycle and occurred u lne claim adjoining tho
town site. and ten other bicyelists got lots.
Ii is feared the death list will reach score
aud the injured he numbered by hundreds
HuNSrwELL. Kan. Sept, 1.-THE day for the