The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-11
After Chasing Them All Day United
States Marshals, with Winchesters,
Catch the Cripple Creekers.
SERIOUS FIGHT AT YAKIMA
Two Deputy Marshals and Three
Train-Seizers Wounded.
Fry Attempts to Bluff at Shelbyville-
DOingS of the Sullivanites, RAN
dailites and Other "Wealers."

KANSAS CITY, May 1o-General San
ders's reckless assembly of commonwealers
defied pursuit and laughed at obstacles
again to-day, but for the last time. Three
times their stolen train was reported
stalled before cars and engines purposely
run off the track ahead of them, and each
time the Missouri Pacific railroad officials
believed they were masters of the situa-
tion. But In less time than ii took the rail-
road company TO throw their engines from
the track at one place. tear up the rails
at another, the go-ahead "wealers' had
built a new track around the feeble OBJ
structions and relaid the torn up rails with
their force of over four hundred men. But
they came to grief tonight, as the follow
ing bulletin from Salina, dated 1870 d. m,
Shows: THE war is over. The intrepid
Colorado contingent of the commonweal
which has kept Colorado and Kansas In an
uproar for two days, has surrendered un-
conditionally to Marshal Neely. They were
450 strong, and every man was put under
arrest The surrender was made peace
ably, and the entire army is being taken
to Topeka for trial. The special train is
now with the captured army, and is MAX
ing rapid time on its return trip"
The army's sympathizers were hoping
that the daredevil band might run the
gauntlet Of United State Marshal Neeley's
one hundred winchesters and reach Topeka
without further molestation. Once at the
capital they believed the train stealers
would be free from care and penalty. The
attitude of Governor Lewelling gave this
idea encouragement. The executive en-
tirely noncommittal when questioned. but
to Sheriff Hart, Of Horace, Kan, who ap-
piled for troops, the Governor sent the fol-
lowing:
''Your telegram asking for troops to ar
rest five hundred men who have stolen a
Missouri Pacific train received. Was train
stolen In Kansas? Have any depredations
been committed In your county! Have war
rants been issued and processes been re-
sisted? Are. the men still in your county?'
The railroad officials found themselves in
a peculiar fix. The State attorneys having
declined to help them and the county au-
thorities not caring to do so, preferring to
let the wild train move on to having several
hundred arrested men to feed and place on
trial, it took legal ingenuity to get the rail-
road officials in a position to apprehend the
men and runaway train at ali. They de-
pended on their general attorney, Bailey
Waggener, to drag them out OF the diff
Guilty, and he succeeded In pressing the
United States into service by getting the
clerk of the United States Circuit Court
at Topeka to issue writs of arrest for the
unknown commonwealers. act which the
Populist leaders condemn as unlawful.
With United States Marshal Nicely and a
force of fifty men, each armed with rifle
or shotgun, Waggener started west on
special train from Topeka. The forces and
firearms were increased en- route, and when
the special reached Scott City, Kan, one
hundred deputies, each with a gun, were
aboard.
Meanwhile the "wealers'' we're reported
as flying eastward. Formidable ohstruc-
tions were reported as being thrown up
before them at Diston in the shape of
three engines and several box cars, and
the supply of water for their engine was
said to be cut off. But these Instructions
detained them only short time.
The man at the throttle it was said, was
old Missouri Pacific engineer, end ne
knew every sag and curve of the road.
The wild train reached Horace, Kan,
about o'clock. There they found An
east-bound passenger and mail train that
had been held by the company. The veal
ers' commanded the crew of that train
to move and, after an exchange of dis
patches with the superintendent, the train
sped away. Regarding this train as a safe
pilot, the special kept close in its wake.
The ''wealers" had now first-class loco
motive, having abandoned their rusty old
switch engine at Horace and appropriated
the best passenger engine they could find
in the roundhouse. Without ,nishap the
runaways reached Scott City, which they
approached warily. They saw fifty feet of
track torn up in front Of the station there
and one hundred men with one hundred
rifles lined up on the station platform
The engineer reversed quickly. and before
the deputies had time to think their ex-
pected antagonists had disappeared in the
distance from whence they came The
Missouri Pacific promptly started a train
east from Leoti. Kan. twenty-five miles
west OF Scott City, to intercept the re-
turning army and succeeded in capSuring IL