Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-01-20

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"
We'll they have made bonfire of it,
and it's blazing away even in this rain.
There are fourteen of the fellows and the
toughest lot rye ever seen. | think they
mean to attack the house. Hadn't you
Letter come up
IL don't want to take the responsibility
unless it is positively necessary. You
are expected to stand them off if you
can. No one will blame You if you wine
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 sur
render and that one of the empty freight
cars had been fired.
They cant set fire to the house with
the water falling like this" replied
lyon have n stout shutter at the win
dow. and they can only attack by way
of the door, if at all. They can't shout.
der it in with two bars across it. and if
they bring up n battering ram you want
to fire on them through the low panels.
What was to be the last message came
about ten minutes later.
~ frhf oil
graphed the little woman. land | gave
them the buckshot through the lower
panels think hit three or four. Some
of them are now firing into the house,
while others are bringing up firebrands
to burn me out"
Coming don't give up!' ratified off
to her. and thirty seconds later the en-
gine was moving away with our crowd.
We had wet track. but a clear run, and
after the first two miles we simply flew.
We had some fear that the fellows might
have turned the switch or pushed a
freight car down on the main track. but
no such idea had occurred to them. We
went through two miles of snow shed
ding like rocket shooting along a
tube, and when we popped out at the
eastern end we were among the tramps
The two cars were blazing away. and a
fire had Just started in third. Fire
brands were piled up against the house
at three different places, and three OIL
four fellows with revolvers were blazing
away at the door and window
Before the engine had come to stoI
we dropped off and began shooting t.
kill and in five minutes we had Gle lneC
out the gang. Perhaps you remember
} the way that certain newspapers pitched
into us about that affair, calling it
massacre and bowling for our arrest
There were four killed and seven wound
= ed Three men were hit when the li5tl,
woman fired through the door. | know
! what became Of the killed. for helpe,
/ to bury them, but the wounded wer,
taken east that afternoon.
When the little woman opened tn
door to us she had her revolver in he
! left hand. because one of the stray bul
} lets had passed through the palm of he
right. She had also been grazed on tn
/ shoulder. and two bullets had passe,
through her clothing. She had fire.
both barrels of the shotgun and clever
2 bullets from the revolver and was doinI
8 bravely well when we turned the scales
Q And did she continue at Lone Pine? Oh
no. A division superintendent fell il
I love with her. rearoused the tender pas
l sion in her breast, and away she went t
b, settle down on the Pacific slope and be
t come a nobody-that is. she couldn't b
. heroine any more.