St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-17
A GREAT RACE.
Some Stirring scenes on the Strip
Near Arkansas City.

Some Stirring scenes on the Strip
Near Arkansas City.
ARKANSAS CITY. Kan, Sept. 16.-At
high noon the carbines of hundred
cavalry men cracked in the dry air, and
the greatest race for home that has
ever been run was commenced. Massed
on the border south of this city were
fully $4,000 people, all guided by one
impulse and ali eager for the race. In
the mass were hundreds of fast horses
aggregatIng in value many thousands of
dollars, and many that could be bought
in any horse market for $40, yet every
one was confident that he would win
the best quarter section. At noon, every
man, his watch in hand. and almost be-
fore the starting gun was heard, the
shrll zip, zip of the cowboys was heard.
A patter of hU, is and the whole mass in
Irresistible motion. As it got under way
it rOared like an express train crossing
a treStle. A dense cloud of dust arose
as the hoofs beat up the dry earth and
soon enVelOped all in an impenetrable
cloud. Away i'll front were the fast
horses riGden by the cowboys.
Soon after they had disappeared dense
clouds of smoke arose i'll their rear and
those following knew that they had
fired the prairie to retard those follow
ing. A good many of the settlers were
driven back by the smoke and flames.
The grass is high and as dry as gunpow-
der, and burns tiercely.
Am alden lady named Sabetha Sharp,
from Oklahoma City, went in on
a BOOMER WAGON.
Whpn If naSSHd tho fret al lai
she jumped out and planted her flag
Thousands of people had passed over it,
but, as she expressed it, "It was good
enough for her." After the rush was
over she was offered 81, 900 for it by a
banker. A young man named Hill was
| murdered by soldier OF the Third
Cavalry just as the rush was about to
begin. Hill and two companions were
| OH reStive horses which rushed beyond
the line couple of times. They were
| warned back by the soldiers Just before
| by Hill became very much excited and
| got away from him. The soldier be-
| came enraged at the apparent dis
| obedience of his orders and shot him
through the head.
| Two men who have lived here mum.
ber of years, and who have lately been
| on bad terms, got into all alteration
| about claim few miles south of here.
One of them, Charles Kelly, was
stabbed and instantly killed by Will
Bartel, his head being literally cut in
twain.
The scene at the Santa Fe depot was
simply indeScribable; hundreds re-
mained there all night. At an early
hour this morning people began throng-
ing to the depot by the thousands to be
OH hand for the trains. For hours a
| long line of men and women waiting to
buy tickets extended from the ticket
window out half the length of
THE PLATFORM.
The waiting rooms and platform
| were packed to suffocation. The crowd
| swarmed across the tracks, and fiagmen
| preceded the engine to keep people
back. Seven trainlOads were hauled
| into the strip from here, and they were
so crowded that several persons who
were clinging to the tops of the coaches
were iostled off. and seriously in
jured. The trains moved yery
! slow, or many would have been
killed. Rumors of many shooting
ARRAYS are current here tonight, and.
while some have undoubtedly occurred
between sOoners and homeSteaders, it is
absolutely impossible to corroborate
them. One is to the effect that five men
were killed in free fight over a
Continued On Fourth Page.