The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-09
THEY'RE COMING.
Cripple Greek IndustrialS Seize
a Train at Pueblo.
They Are Coming Eastward
Through Kansas.
Engines Thrown Into bitches
by Missouri Pacific
In A VAIN EFFORT
To Stop the Band of Train
StealerS.
They Build Around the Obstruc-
tiOnS and Move On.
SIX ENGINES DITCHED
In Different Places All to No
Avail.
Bale Waggener Leaves Atchi-
son on a Special.

evening as engine of the Rio Grande
was taking coal here it was suddenly
surrounded by fifteen of the common
veal army under Gen. Sanders of Cripple
Creek. They took the engineer and ran
the locomotive down to the Missouri Pa
citic yards, where were six coal cars that
had been left there short time before.
The whole band boarded these cars, and
attaching Rio Grande engine started
for the east at lively gait
The superintendent Immediately had
an engine anG freight car overturned
at Olney in cut
News was received this morning that
the Coxey industrials had succeeded in
getting around the obstruction near
Olney and had resumed their journey
eastward about $3.50 IL. NJ.
Superintendent Derby, when notified
by wire that the train sellers were again
ia motion, ordered four engines which
had been awaiting Developments at Ar
lington,I1 80 miles from here, to go east
rapidly. He also ordered another loco
motive to be ditched near Haskell which
is beyond Arlington. Not train except
the stolen one is now running on the
Missouri Pacific in Colorado.
The tank al Ordway, ten miles beyond
Olney, has been emptied and the water
for the locomotive can be secured only
from wells. Itis thought likely that the
engine will run dry before the new OBJ
struction is reached. No little anxiety
was felt when it was learned that the
track around the engine was completed,
lest the industfialS should cut the tele-
graph wires, but the train went through
without any molestations of the wires.
1t will be almost impossible to pursue
the army from this direction, since to
build their track around the diIched en-
gine they have taken up 800 or 400 feet
of rails and ties.
United States Marshal Jones in ID en-
yer has been advised of the interference
with the movement of the mail and cOun-
sci for the Missouri Pacific in Denver
has been instructed to apply to the fed
eral court for injunction to prevent
further interference by Sanders and his
men with the operation of the road.
Di;ched More Engines.
The COxeyites' stolen train encountered
another obstacle near Arlington, eighty
miles east of this city. where four en-
gines were ditched by order of Superin-
tendent Derby. The industrials are now
laying track around this obstruction.
Sheriff Moses has been trying all the
morning to raise a posse to capture San
ders and his army, but so far has not
been able to secure more than forty men,
The railroad authorities here are in COM
munication with Judge Hallett at Den
yer in regard to securing federal aid.
A telegram was received here this
afternoon saying that the industriaIs are
SLalleQ at haSWell, Twelve miles
east of Arlington by four engines
ditched in cut At latest accounts they
were tearing up and relaying track.
At Ordway the water in their engine
gave out and they obtained a supply
from a well, carrying it in their dinner
pals and coffee cups
2 p. m.-Sanders' industrials have got
beyond the Haswell wreck and are now
going east. Another engine has been
ditched at Diston, 119 miles from Pueblo.
3 p. m.-Sanders' train is reported to
have reached Eads, the last station west
of Diston where another engine has been
ditched. Diston is 80 miles west of the
state line. Engines were ditched at
Olney, Arlington, Haswell and Diston.
Making Haste Slowly.
DENVER. May 9.-The Missouri Pacific
railroad company applied to United
States Marshal Jones today to capture
the Coxeyites, who seized a train at
Pueblo. The marshal was in doubt as to
whether he had any right to act and
asked Judge Hall to advise him. The
judge has taken the matter under con-
sideratiOn.
VIII Take No Action.
DENVER, May 4-Judge HaIIett this
afternoon advised Marshal Jones to
take no action in regard to the stolen