The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-15
THE SOLDIERS HOME.
Col. Green's Men Have Made a
Proud Record.
READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY.
story OF the Trip of the Two Compa-
mics TO Spokane and Baek-Bsby
Buggies for Mutineers.

Col. Joseph Green and his detachment Of
| 10 men from Companies B. ID and Z. OF
Seattle. and +. Of Whatcom, arrived in
| the city at I0:s0 o'clock yesterday morn
! ing, over the Northern Pacific, from Spo-
! kane. where they had been as escort 70
| Company q. of Spokane, which mutlnIed
| at Tacoma. The return was triumphal to
q certain extent, for the boys had made q
| good record and thus honored their COM
/ mander. Every man was sunburnt and
brown, and as he marched there was
something about the way he carried him
self that caused thrill OF pride TO the cit
| liens who Iooked on. From the time the
4 men left Camp McGraw until they landed
! the train safely in Spokane and came back
/ 10 their homes nothing but praise has
been accorded them, and 70 say that Col.
/ Green is pleased with his men expresses IL
/ very mildly.
The trip OF the militia to Spokane was
/ full OF stirring incidents, and after the
| assault at Lester. whenever the train en-
/ tered town il looked like q moving
| arsenal. ready to pour forth lead in volleys.
| It was on July 8 at 8 O'Clock, when the
| militia was breaking camp at Camp Nc
| Graw, near Olympia, that the word came
| that trains could not be obtained 10 take
| home the troops from the east side of the
| noun tain. For short time the wire was
| hot with messages between the militia
| officers and railway officials, until the
| former guaranteed TO deliver the train safe
| back at Tacoma after the trip to Spokane.
Col. Joseph Green received instructions
| from Brighten. Curry to take detatch-
| ment from the First regiment, consisting
| of two companies, which were composed
OF details of thirty men each from Com
panies B. d and f. of Seattle. and f, of
Whatcom.
No sooner had the order been given
than each man in the companies named
from officers down set up clamor to be
one of the detachment. Everyone wanted
TO go and Col. Green found himself in
| dilemma as to whom he should take. After
the men found out that only thirty men
| from each company could go one would
offer to purchase the right of another to
take the trip. There was not a case of
wanting to stay at home. At last Col.
Green placed the companiesof his detach-
| ment under command OF Capt ]. ]. Weis-
enberger. of Whatcom; Capt. L. S. Booth,
| of Seattle, and Lieuts. Milroy, Clark.
Saum and Barnes. In addition there were
Surgeon L. r. Dawson, Hospital Steward
ANS anu lutt hQSpAAaA SAdiRs EOuStStlnk
of ten men from the different companies
of the regiment.
The train was divided into three Sec
tons. and Col Green's was the third.
Camp was left July at midnight and Ia
coma was reached at a. m, without any
other trouble than the third section being
delayed a half hour at Lake View by the
breaking of a coupling. On the third Sec
| ton, as far as Tacoma. in addition TO Col.
Green's detachment, were Companies
and G., of Tacoma, and Company I, of
| Port Townsend. and the balance of the
companies not detailed for the trip to
! Spokane. All those on the train not de-
| tailed to go to Spokane left the train at
| Tacoma.
| The train for Spokane was then made
| up. and consisted of six cars, engine and
! tender. In one car were Brig. Gen. Curry
| and staff. consisting of Lieut.-Col. Lake
| Paymaster Mount, Surgeon Freeman,
| Lieut. Cromwell, Commissary Hatfield
| and also several of the wives of Second
| regiment officers and other ladies who had
| visited the camp. In other cars was Com
| pany q, Of Spokane, which was being es-
| corted. In the other three cars was the
| detachment under Col. Green. Before the
train left the disagreeable incident about
| Company q. of Spokane, occurred, and
| not until Brig Gen. Curry had persuaded
them TO go on the train was the order TO
| leave given.
IL was $3.50 o'clock on the evening of
| July 10 that the big train drew out and
proceeded on its way. Lester was reached
without trouble. The engine was un-
| coupled from the train and proceeded to
| coal about goo feet from the remainder of
| the train, guarded by a squad OF six men
| under Sergt. Turner, of Company D.
| While il was backing down the switch
| under the bunkers il was discovered that
the switch had been tempered with.
| and two trucks of the engine ran
! Oh the track. Without much de-
lay the engine was gotten back
on the track and run TO the coal bunkers.
| While the tender was being loaded with
coal. TWO shots were fired from ambush ar
the cab of the engine. The first struck
tue arm rest of the fireman, bat was de-
| Elected and did not touch him, although
| an inch higher would have made it very
different for him. At the second shot. n
minute or so later. which went over the
cab. the squad fred a volley of six pieces
at the flash. $50 yards away. ii being so
dark that no object could be seen. No
one was hit, but the troabie ended there.
Two men who were found on
the track. near the engine. after
the firing, we're captured and turned over
20 the United States marshal until the
train pulled out a deputy marshal who
had been sent out from Tacoma as an ar
resting officer Sas 80 scared bv the shoot
ing that he tainted and was carried 20 the
baggage car and placed under care of the
surgeon. From that time on be was unfit
for duty and was turned over to the chief
deputy United States marshal al Ellens-
burg.
The train pulled out OF Lester strongly
guarded and amidst silence that vas as.
sumed not 70 be voluntary. and reached
EilensbaTg Saturday morning st . O'clock.
There was a large crowd Of strikers. but
owing to the fact that the train vas 81
| heavily guarded and every preeaution had
been taken 70 avoid trouble. no EFFORT Was
made % commit any depreciation. The
train took water and pulled ouL Yak
I ina vas reached ia the afternoon
and no further trouble was experienced
1 uat. spEagae was reached. although there
was n small demonstration at Paseo. " here
the crowd howiea and swore az the en-
giaeer and nTeMan. Cox Green appeared
ard told the crowd that the denonstra-
iions must STOP sud. unless they
stopred quickly. the crowd would be dis
persed. 81 RiiEvile = long stop was
made. Saiiing for the conductors order,
20 move Bat owing 10 bridge hav-