The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-12-27


AND IN ANOTHER MOMENT GRAVES WAS
TEiPrED.
pany, where the west-bound express
was supposed To find ample sustenan, q.
for its passengers before pushing on
for the long days run through the
mountains. The sheriff and the cor
oner, as was the case in most frontier
cities of the day, were by long odds the
hardest-worked officials, and just now
the sheriff was fairly used up. The
first intimation of anything wrong cast
If Butteville was the sudden stop of
the wires. Up 10 daybrcali train
tispatchcrs and night operators sit
ting. rcd-eyed and weary, over their
instruments. after the long hours of
vigil, found everything working
smoothly. The night had been still,
neither storm nor excitement any
where along the line, until just about
four o'clock Butte, called up by Paw
nee station, was asked: What's afro
1T Alkali?" Butte didn't lnow-hadnt
heard. Pawnec explained that dis
patch for Paymaster Graves from Min
dcn met No. } at Pawnec. and said
bridge was down at Alllali. Two
Ilnchmen from over Painted Lodge
way rode into Pawncc at three n. III.
and said hell was broke loose down the
Mini Slia-Sioux scalping and burning
everything in sight. Where were CO..
Winthrop and the cavalry? Butte an
swcrcd: The colonel and xix companies
had marched for Painted Lodge two
days before; couldn't bc far from
Alkali now. Sioux wouldn't dare
come that far up the valley. Who
said the bridge was down and burnt?
Pawncc rcplicd Hold on minute.
More refugees from vallcy are reported
hurryiug 10 the railway. and Pawncc
wanted To see the ranchmcn who first
came before they got good and drunk
md couldn't talk reliably. Perhaps
Mindcn could tell about the bridge nj
..llSali. Butte called Mindcn accord
lngly. Mindcn said some of the caval-
~ had come up from AllIali an hour
i,eforc. said they'd been sent to Alkali
IN the first place to meet the paymas-
ter on No. ,, but they found the bridge
across the Mini Ska aiirc, so the am
bulance, escort. etc, were all on the
way mp to Mindcn, and these two rode
ahead with dispatch for Maj. Graves.
explaining the situation and telling
uim to keep on and meet them here.
Minden sent il 10 Pawpcc. and Pawnec
gave it TO the porter OF the sleeping
car. That's all Mindeu knew about
fire or anything else. luttcvillc was
Che west end Of the division. however,
and Buttcvillc demanded further par
tlcularH-told Mindcn To ask the caval-
~ II any OF the buildings at Alliali
were reported aiirc. Mindca said wait
r minute, he'd find out: No. 3's head
Light just coming around Buffalo
BLUFF. The soldiers had gone out 10
meet the lieutenant as soon as assured
hat the dispatch had been delivered 10
No. ;. and they were now watering
their horses ut the creek. II was just
light enough 10 see them out there,
Then No. reached Mindeu. was duly
in and out and then the wires
went down. No. 3 came into Butte.
Vile at breakfast ON time and MI right
The division superintendent asked
.fnut Mdo inc iIldAltI III AlhNll SllliOll. [
nd the conductor replied, nothing
that he knew Of They had come live
Iy down Antelope grade and struck the !
Mini Ska valley, running forty-iivc !
niles an hour. which they didn't check. |
IS Mai. Graves telegram said: Come I
N To Mindcn." Had he seen the dis /
Patch? Why, certainly. II was all .
light, signed by some lieutenant or |
,ther, commanding escort, Had he /
zen no fire at Alllnlie Oh. yes, over
IN the bank of the stream five hundred /
rards or SO from the station there was
somc fire. Thought II was only n camp |
ire or two. There were two or three
nen, soldiers, he thought, on the old
platform, but Il was barely dawn, and
he engine left such trail of smoke
md steam that the men were envel-
pped In II, and he couldn't make them 4
put distinctly. No. . dropped the major
and his clerk at Minden, where other
soldiers met him, and then hurried ON.
What's the trouble?" "Well, said the |