The record-union., 1894-05-11
1t Reaches Scott City, Kan, in
Spite of distractions.
WHERE THE ARMY SURRENDGRS TO
U. S. AUTHORITIES
Sixty Coxeyites Capture Coal Car at
Clealum, Washington. and Reach
Enensburg, Twenty-EighU Miles
Distant, without an Engine-The
Situation at Yakima Still Serious.
Special TO the REcoaD-UN1oS.

Special 20 the RECoRD-UNIoN.
KANSAS CITY, May 10.-Sanders' reck-
less army of Commonwealers defied pur-
suit and laughed at obstacles again to-
day. Three times their stolen train was
reported stalled before cars and engines
purposely run off the track ahead of them,
and each time the railroad officials be-
lieved they were masters Of the situation.
But in less time than it took the railroad
company to dump their engines from the
track at once place, and tear up the rails
at another, the go-ahead weaiers had
built a new track around the feeble OBJ
structions and relaid the torn-up rails.
With their force of something over 400
men'these undertakings were but few
hours of enjoyable recreation for the
wealers, who, when riding, were packed
in their coal cars like sardines in can.
The army sympathizers We're hoping
that the daredevil band might run the
gantlet of United States Marshal Neely' S
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 SAID
nothing sympathetic when addressed on
the subject by interested parties, but
neither did he say anything condemna-
tory. He was entirely non-cOmmittal
and abstained from interesting himself in
the matter beyond replying to communi-
cations sent him by railroad officials or
petty peace officers. 70 one who applied
Tor troops the Governor sent the follow
ing:
''Jdmes Hurt, Sheriff, Horace. KdS.:
Telegram asking for troops to arrest 500
men, who stole Missouri Pacific train re-
ceived. Was train stolen in Kansas? Have
any depredations been committed in your
county? Have warrants been issued and
processes been resisted? Are the men
still in your county?
IL. ID. LEWELLING, Governor
The railroad company found themselves
in a peculiar fix, the State authorities
having declined to help them and the
county authorities not caring TO do so,
preferring TO let the wild train move on,
10 having 900 arrested men to iced and to
place on trial. It took legal ingenuity to
get the railroad in a position to apprehend
The men and the runaway train at all. 1t
depended on their general attorney, Bal
ley Waggoner, to drag them out OF the
difficulty. 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, an ac-
tion which the leaders condemn as unlaw-
ful.
With United States Marshal Neely and
a force OF fifty men, each armed with
rifle or shot gun, W q ggoner started out
ON special train from Topeka. The force
and fremen were increased. and when
the crew reached Scott City, Kas., 100
deputy marshals, each with a gun, were
about. The special made an exciting race
10 that place, as here 1t was determined to
give battle TO the foe ii battle there had
TO be.
Meanwhile the wealers were reported
as flying Eastward, having broken camp
at Chivington, Col, where they peace
fully spent the night rolled in their blan-
kentS IN the open air, while their train
stood still on the main track. Formida-
ble distractions 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 en-
gine was said to be cut OH. But the first
dispatch OF their movements for the day
showed them as having passed Sherida
Lake, Col, at lO:lS A. NJ. mountain time),
and as passing the State line into Kansas
at lI-o'clock. They were by the 'sditch'
and other barriers, and their engine was
steaming all right. At different points
from there Eastward the wealers' wildcat
was reported as moving carefully, and
roaring by other places at forty miles an
hour. The man at the throttle, it was
said, was an old Missouri Pacific en-
gineer, and he knew every sag and curve
in the road.
The wild train reached Horace. Kas,.
about O'Clock. There they found an
Eastward bound passenger and mail that
had been held up by the company. Tho
wealers commanded the crew of this train
TO move, and after an exchange of dis
patches with the Superintendent the train
sped away. Regarding that train as
safe pilot, the wealers' special kept close
in It's wake, The wealers had now first
class locomotive, having abandoned their
rusty old switch engine at Horace, Kas.,
and appropriated the best passenger en-
CINE they could find in the roundhouse.
Without mishap the runaways reached
Scott City, which they approached war
ily. They saw fifty feet OF track torn up
in front of the station there, and 100 men
with 100 rifles lined up on the station
platform. The engineer reversed quickly,
and threw her wide open. Before the
waiting and trembling deputies had
time 10 think, their expected antagonists
had disappeared in the distance from
whence they came. Then the deputies
breathed easier, and were once more
courageous.
The Missouri Pacific promptly started
a train east from Leoti, Kansas, twenty
five miles west of Scott City, to intercept
the returning army.
THE ARMY sURRENDERS.
SAIdNA tKans.), May 10.-The Com
monweal army is now 10 P. NJ reported
at Scott City, in consultation with the
United States Marshal Marshal Neely
served the writs on the Coxeyites with a
posse of twenty-eight men, saying II
they refused to surrender the train the
fprnn rr
enforce the order III the Federal courts.
DENVER, May l0.-A special to the
AelcS from Scott City, kanS., announces
that the COXeyites who stole a train at
Pueblo have surrendered TO the authori-
ties at that place.
The capture of the stolen train was ef-
fected at Scott City at $50 this evening,
the wealers having been compelled TO re-
turn TO that city by the train sent TO
Modoc. Shortly after the train was
stopped Marshal Neely served the writs
OF replevin- There was short conference
between Sanders and his officers, and il
was decided 10 camp here on the prairie
all night. Sanders asked permission of
the Mayor for such proceeding, and the
request was quickly granted. In a few
minutes there were two dozen bright
bonfires burning near the track, and Il
party of hungry Coxeyites around each.
They had little With them to eat but their
mite was eked out to contributions from
the citizens, and by s O'Clock nearly all
of the Commonwealers had been fairly
fed, Sanders himself was invited TO take
supper with Superintendent Clark in his
private car Magnolia, and accepted the
invitation. To provide against surprises
of any kind the eastbound mail train was
held 10 obstruct the track, and the armed
deputies were set to guard the prairie.