The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-13

miles, tho pursuors came in sight Of an
engine on branch mining roNd. but
before reaching 1t tho hand cat. wont
on tho track, throwing MI hands into II
dl'c3, Tor Andrews party had tHken up
n rall nnd CIT tho wirC ut this point.
gathering themselves up, the Conduc.
toT party again took TO their logs and
ran TO tho engine, which they boarded
ana continued tho pursuit, but Andrews
WAS now lar IN advance, ana was walt
lnH NJ Kingston, thirty miles from tho
surfing poInt, to paJs u iroght train.
Tho freight train being Into And rows
llhu 10 wait moro than an hour, nEd Just
rs lie got under way the pursuing on
Elho camn in sight Of Kingston, but AM
drows did not know that no was pur-
sued. While waiting ut Kingston An
tirews had many explanations to mako
about his train, but with tho moat per
iect coOneas no told it was Il powder
train taking powder to BeOurogard's
army. Tho cars boing box cars the mon
wcro shut in thoro aud not aeon.
AN EXCITING PURSUIT.
Aitcr passing tho freight Andrews
ran fcw minutes, stopped aud cut tho
wiro and raised Il rail, then PIT on all
steam so as to roach the next station,
ton miles distant, Ia order to meet
passenger train. a run OF nino miles
was hero madc in seven minutes. An
drows, by having train schedule, was
enabled to make stations without acct
don't, for he was running on tho passcn-
ger schedule. The pursuing party, by
mooilng trains and getting their on
Gines, were enabled to keep not iariu tho
roar Finally Androws passed tho last
train he would hGvo 10 meet, having
passed five, and started out with full
speed for short timo and thcn stopped
to tear up tho track aud cut'the wire,
but before rnil could DO removed the
pursuing train was upon them aud lt
became a race for life. Wood and tics
woro thrown from the train on the track
with view to wrccking the following
train; efforts were made to tire bridges;
fire was mado in ono pi the cars which
was uncoupled on the track, but every
effort to cause wreck Jailed, ana the
rain extinguishcd the fire. Atterasmost
II whole days chase, and when he was
within twenty miles OF CHATTANOOGA,
Andrews decided TO abandon his engine.
all the cars having been dropped, and
attempt flight, by causing tho members
OF tho party to jump from tho engine
lew Mt time, and escape through the
country to the Union lines. When the
men were all oil, the engineer made Il
final effort to cause wreck by revers-
ing his engine, but the .pursuera were
too wary and stopped their engine be-
lore collision.
FINALLY CAPTURED.
By means Of scouting parties, blood
hounds, and d general turning out OF
the country it was only few days un.
til Andrews and every member OF his
party (twenty.one in number) were
hunted down, captured, heavily ironcd
and placed in Chattanooga jail, known
as the "EIole" or "Sims' niger jail"
Andrews was tho frat one tried by q
court-martial aud was sentenced to DO
hanged rs apy. After he was tried
he made his escape from prison and al
ter thrilling chase. in which he swan
the Tennessee river twice, was finally
discovered in q tree on an island BY
some small boys. He was taken back
to prison, heavily ironed, and on the
9TH OF June, Just two months IRON the
day ho left tho Union camp. was re-
moved from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
and executed.
Seven OF the soldiers wero tried later
by q court martial and met tho same
fatu as A1arews. Eight others over
powered the guard at Atlanta and es-
capped and made their way to tho Union
lines after months OF wandering aud
starving and most thrilling Adventures,
and the remainder, after nearly years
imprisonment, were exchanged.
Those who were executed we're buried,
without collins, in shallow trench Mt
tho place OF execution. After the war
their remains were removed to tho beau
tiful national cemetery at Chattanooga,
and in 1890 tho state OF Ohio erected n
beautiful granite monument to their
memory and the other members of the
expedition. Ono side OF the monu-
mcnt contains the names OF those who
were executed on another side the
names of those who escaped, and on the
third side the names OF those who were
exchanged.
The monument is surmounted with u
perfect fac smile OF the captured engine
III bronze about seven iect in length.
The original engine, the General" is
now owned by tho state Of Georgia and
is kept in the shops at Atlanta. 1t was
on exhibition at the Worlds Fair, in the
transportation building, where it was
no doubt seen by many OF the readers
oil the INrRLLlGEXcER. II. &C.
Sir Harry Tern cy Dead.