Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-07-14
AT SIOUX CITY.
An Onicer of Company l. of Algonl
struck With a Coupling Pin.

An Onicer of Company l. of Algona
struck With n Coupling Pin.
Sioux CITY, Ia, July 5.-About 7:3C
o'clock last night the train bear,
ing the militia came in. A fat cal
with q gatling gun on it brought
from Ames was ahead OF the engine.
Behind the engine were two or three
freight cars containing camp equip
ments, and behind these was a line OF
cabooses and coaches, in which were
the militia. As soon as the train mr.
rived at Tenth street il was stopped
and the companies were unloaded and
formed from there down to Seventh
street.
There were six companies on the
train as follows: Companies X o.
Toledo, + of Algona, C Of Webste,
City, l of Boone, g of Fort Dodge and
X OF Cherokee. Another special ar
rived later In the night bringing Com
panies A of Mason City and ID o.
Hampton.
Colonel Foster I'm
Colonel Foster Immediately took com
mand of the regiment, and under hi,
u AuiSS POA VI thO az
Central and upper Omaha yards were
cleared TO give roo for the troops
Each company formed by itself and
picket lines were thrown out on either
side 20 prevent any outsider from mix
ing with the troops. The g%atling CUR
vas then unloaded and the march foi
the Union Passenger station, which 1,
TO be the barracks Of the troops while
they are in the city. was commenced.
During the wait in the yards the ele.
ment In the crowd that has caused mos,
of tho trouble was very defiant an6
buried all kinds of slurs at the militis
men. They wereieered and made tho
butt of all sorts of ridicule and the tar
gets for a great many firecrackeri
thrown by boys.
An Illinois Central switch engin,
started to move near where Company
I of Algona was stationed. when sew
eral men in the crowd moved NJ
toward it.
An officer of the company ordered {
squad Of his men TO drive them back
They refused to go and the militiamer
prodded them with their bayonets
One Of the men brushed the guns asid,
and struck the officer in charge in tn,
face with q piece of a coupling
pin, cutting a cash in his cheel
and bruising his eye. There wer,
several scenes where militia men prod
ded the crowds TO keep them back, bu
this was the only one in which any ont
was hurt. Three men who refused I.
move out Of the way ut Seventh stree
were arrested and hurried off to tn,
station in the police patrol.
Company q of Fort Dodge led tn,
march from the yards to the depot ant
kept the crowds back. The march wa
down through the yards to Third stree
and up Third street 10 the depot. Thu
crowd followed and was joined by new
recruits all along the line, SO that wheI
tho depot was reached the streets wcr'
packed for blocks around.
The militia marched in under tn
train sheds, stacked arms there afte
| the crowd had been driven ont. and fel
TO devouring the food that had beel
provided for them. Colonel Foste
cssa6iiahsd heaAa~@~A>vs--ia tha.d apo
masters Office. II Is the intention
to put out pickets all about tn
railroad yards and prevent persons no
authorized TO do so from going on rail
road property. Escorts will also b
furnished all trains in and ont Of tn
city.
The railroad companies. now tina
| the militia is here, will endeavor :
ret all passenger trains on time, bu
will not cndeavor to move freigh
| trains.