The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-04-29
HOGAN AND HIS MEN
They Had a Hard Trip Of II 10 Fort
Forsyth
AND IT'S NOT ALL OVER YET
Yesterdays Developments In the
Matter of the Hundreds OF Men
Who Are Now Under Guard
Of tho Federal Troops.
|. necIal nIsnatch 10 the Standard

IOkNhIilE, Aprll 81 Nc llltle TOWN. OF
forsythe has suddenly bloomel into a city
Of 10 mean proportions. Its former popu.
lation of 30 has been swelled bv moro
than 400 Coxcyi;es, $50 regular troops, 10
deputy marshnls, and quite u number of
outsiders as spectators. All the troops,
marshals, and prisoners are still quar-
tered in the cars except the officers of the
Tweniy-sccond infantry who sleep on the
floor of the old Occidental hotel.
Colonel Page still holds the prisoners,
keeping guard over them, while Deputy
Marshal NJ. j. Haley of Helena has charge
OF the commissionary arrangements for
them. To-day Haley issued two
wagon loads of provisions including
-four, potatoes, beans etc, and
last but not least both chewing and
smoking tobacco, and the commonwealth
are beginning TO look Oh him as genuine
phllanthropist.
They lounge about between the cars and
tracks and seem perfectly contcnted, IN
fact they are doing so well that they are
continually gaining in numbers. Ycster-
day when census ana names were
taken there were just 33l. to-day there
we're 3)S and tonight about 20 more have
broken into the camp. This rapid increase
in numbers will have to DO stopped as tho
officers do not intend To feed any cxcep,
those originally arrested.
There is no change in the outlook, and
everybody is simply waiting orders from
the secretary Of war. Ii is generally
thought, however, that the Coxey men will
DO sent TO Helena and there turned over
TO the United States marshal. hut il is all
conjecture. Dcpgty Marshal NJ, j. Haley
was seen hy the STANpAED correspondent
this evening and hc feels that he has not
been fairly dealt with. lie says he knows
he is on the unpopular side of the case
and has come to the conclusion that 10 he
popular one must fail To do his duty. llc
served an apprenticeship in the same line
when he was special agent in the land de.
partmcnf. lie states that the account oi
the Billings fight in the Helena MdepcH-
dent and that given by 4. =. Hart are in.
correct.
He says IN substance he was ordered to
follow, and if possible 10 capture the
CoXey train. lie made three attempts be-
tween Grey ClilTc and Park City. aud got
on the engine twice but could do nothing
The second time his men pulled their re.
volyers and ordered the engineer and fire,
man off, but they refused and started of
with the train every time. They had men
around the engine armed with rifles, but
they were strictly ordered not to shoot
under any circumstances. Three de-
putios were on the engine at one time but
could accomplish nothing. lie says he
had orders TO prevent the CoSey train from
getting an engine at Billings.
I'VE pulled our train into that place
about third of q mile behind the Coke,
train," said Haley, "and took about Il
men. eight or 10 of whom had rifles. We
went up TO tho Coxey train, having ins,ruc,
ted our men not to shoot. We went along
the left hand side OF the train through a
bowling mob TO the engine and again or
dered the engineer and fireman off as ",
had done three times before. The crowd
from both sides OF the train closed in and
il became regular assault with fists
Two men grabbed me and pulled me bach
toward the tender, but pulled away from
them. did not even pull my revolver
but as was struggling with tho men Tho
| firing began and about j. OF
| 10 shots werc fred. dom
know who did the firing, think most o.
the shots were fired in the air. Th,
people were packed as thick as they coult
stand, as It was two mohs meeting eacl
other. The deputies did no, fire all tht
shots. | saw stranger getting of III,
tender with n revolver IN his hand, ant
another passed by me carrying one.
"My posse lost five guns in the fight
| We were several minutes in getting bacl
| to the cars, but the mob did not follow N
at all. have never fired n shot out of I'M
revolver since | started on the trip. ant
my orders have always been strict!
against II. Only two OF nay men were IN
jured in the fight and neither OF then
seriously
Superintendent Dorsey is still here and
though really quite sick, remains on duty
directing the operation OF the railroad
which has now been running clear for 4
hours. Colonel Page has headquarters il
! Mr.. Dorsey's car aud is very comforiabl.
fixed. Notwithstanding the crowd in tow
good order prevails.