Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
GEN. KELLY's ARMY
In the Midst Of vicissitudes ON
the Borders OF Iowa

The k.ilroads Wont Haul the Mea ssa
Kelly Opposed to Acting In an On.
lawful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Railroad Tactics.
Omaha Workingmen Demand q Train for
Kelly.
OMAHA. Neb., April 2O.-When, at 10
O'Clock this morning, the committee
reported that the Kelly army had not
vet obtained transportation the agreed
signals were given, church bells runp
and whistles blown and the working
men of the city to the number of 5000
turned out and thronged jefferson
from which. after the report
was heard, the crowd organized and
elected officers and started on foot for
Council Bluffs The manager of the
bridge line offered them the free use
of the bridge, and two abreast they
started on their long walk.
THE DEMAND REFUSED BY THE RAIL
WAY OFFICERS.
They were met in Council Bluffs by
a delegation of workingmen of tina:
place, and all marched to Bayliss park
and elected committee to wait on
the railroad officials and make known
their demands. A mass meeting of the
women of Council Bluffs was held in
the opera house, and they marched in
body to where the conference was
held and demanded that the Kelly
army be given a train.
At 5 o'clock the conference between
the committee and the railroad officials
was completed. The members of the
committee were given to understand
that TRANSPORTATION would not be fur
nished to Kelly and his men.
A THREAT TO CAPTURE A TRAIN.
This information was conveyed to
the waiting thousands who had congre-
gated about the courthouse to await
the coming of Chairman Tichnor.
Reaching the grounds, he elbowed his
way through the crowd and assembled
the courthouse steps. When he an
nounced the result of the conference
it was greeted by a roar of bowls. jeers
and Misses After making a short adj
dress he stated that the committee had
decided to wait until 4 o'clock, at
which hour, if a train was not furn-
ished, one would be taken and run out
to Kelly's camp, where his men would
be loaded on and started on their east
ward journey.
A TRAIN TAKEN BY FORCE AND SENT
To WESTON.
1t was the understanding that if this
plan carried the train would start from
Omaha He spoke in strong terms
against violence and cautioned the men
against any destruction of property.
Five thousand men started for the
transfer with the expressed intention
of getting train before they re-
turned. If they could not get an en-
CINE at the transfer they were to
march to South Omaha and get what
they wanted there.
About 7:30 this evening an engine
belonging to the Union Pacific was
captured at the transfer depot by the
Council Bluffs women, who had gone in
a body to the depot. They swarmed
upon the engine and the crew were Or
dered off, and the engine was at once
manned by crew of women. Empty
box cars were picked up. and the train,
dreds of the sympathizing crowd,
started for Weston to pick up the Kelly
army and bring the men back to this
city.
Gen. Kelly Equal to the Emergency-A
Law-Abiding Citizen.
OMAHA, Neb., April 2O.-Gen. Kelly
has proved his claim to be the leader
of an army of peace, las he has emphati-
cally refused to accept a train taken
to Weston by his Omaha friends.
The train was captured at the Council
Bluffs transfer for the purpose of
bringing the industrial army back to
Council Bluffs, and Gen. Kelly says. as
that would be an express violation of
the law, he cannot think of using it.
The crowd at the transfer was led
by Omaha men who declared they
would have a train. A train was
stopped, but it was found to be bound
for st. Louis and was allowed to pro-
coed.
BY A MOB WITH WOMEN IN
THE FRONT RANK.
In the yards was Union Pacific engine
$40, having three empty cars. The
crowd made dash for this engine and
captured it, and were soon heading for
the bridge and Omaha.
The successful capture of this loco
motive inspired the others with more
courage, and when Union Pacific en-
CINE 1885 pushed string OF cars
up into the yards the mob rushed for
and easily captured it.
Two young girls. May Cromer and
Annie Hooten, were in the front rank
of those who clanibered up the cab
steps and on the tender, where they
triumphantly waved an American flag.
In less than a minute the engine and
cars were covered with people and the
men in the lead frantically waved their
arms and shouted to the surging crowd,
but their voices were drowned by the
cheers of the mob. Dozens OF women
were surging about the train and were
ran against and knocked about by the
crowd. but they pushed with the rest
and cheered or hooted as the occasion
demanded.
MEN SENT OUT TO TEAR UP THE TRACK.
The engine and trainwere run up and
down the tracks. with the engine bell
changing and its whistle blowing and
the steam kissing from the escape
valves.
Finally, train was made up by the
engine and started for Weston, eleven
box cars loaded with sympathizers be-
ing the makeup of the train.
The railroads had sent out men to
tear up the track between Council
Bluffs and Weston, and had already
gotten several rails up when a COM
pany of Kelly men appeared and made
them replace them. The track was
also torn up for some distance east OF