The herald., 1894-03-29
.ILL-STARRED PILGRIMS,
General Frye's Army in Very
Hard Straits.
Without Food and Shelter for
Many Hours.
The Men Famished to the Point of
Desperation.
Governor Hogg Says the RAiIrOsd Must
Haul Them-Rslief on the Way.
The Coxeyites Far
ing Better.
By the Associated Press.

MEMPHIs, lenn., MarCn 70 " olum-
inous reports received by the Associated
Press from Sierra Blanca, Tex, are to
the effect that General Frye's army, 400
strong, are threatened with starvation
on the unsheltered prairie. Many OF
the men are unable to stand or walk,
being iamished. The Industrials an
nounce they will help themselves to-
morrow if relief does not come.
PROVISIONS FORWARDED.
Ell PAso. March 28.-General Frye,
who is still at Sierra Blanca. 90 miles
east OF here, with 47O men, wired A, L.
Whiteside:
"We need provisions and boxcar
transportation to San Antonio. Can
anything be done for US ?"
This afternoon 5000 worth of provis-
ions for the hungry men WAS forwarded
by express.
GOVERNOR HoGG is HOT.
DALLAS, Tex, March 28.-Governor
Hogg telegraphed the following from
Austin to the Times Herald today:
"You can truthfully say that neither
the cormorant nor the commune can
disgrace Texas while l am governor.
When q railroad company hauls unem-
ployed or penniless men in this state, it
cannot dump them into q barren desert
and murder them by torture and starva-
tion without atoning for it, if there is
any virtue in the machinery OF justice.
Nor will | permit them TO be shot down
on Texas soil by any armed force what
ever, no matter how much the Southern
Pacific and other enemies OF the state
may howl about the commune.
[Signedl 81. S. HoeG."
WARNING TO THE RAILROADS.
New ORLEANS. March 28.--A special
to tho Picayune from TFonston, Tex.
says: The following correspondence
passed between General Manager Krutt-
schmidt of the Southern Pacific and
Governor Hogg yesterday and today:
General Manager Galveston. Harrisburg and
San Antonio railway, Houston:
Reliable reports have reached me that
your company and your lines, in other
words, the Southern Pacific, now dom.
mating your line, has brought into
Texas from other states about 700
men and left them at or near
Findlay, in the desert, where
they are being as much as murdered by
starvation and exposure. As your com.
pany and the other that dominates it
have brought them into Texas, you
must carry them out or transport them
to some place OF refuge. You are given
a reasonable time to do your duty in the
premises, or failing, to submit to the
consequences from the state of Texas.
Take due notice that this state will not
submit to such Wholesale murder OF anv
human beings on her soil. without test
ing the compsny's life and every right
claimed by it under Texas laws.
(Signed) ]. s. Hoae,
Governor.
THE GENERAL MANAGERS REPLY.
The general manager replied, denying
the accuracy of the governors informa-
tion. Continuing, he said the indus
trials compelled the company to haul
them. "They seek to seize our trains
and appropriate our property against
persistent rsmonstrance and the destruc-
tien of our legal rights, and in spite of
our appeals to you, supported by proof
which your reply shows that you held.
We have simply refused to surrender
our trains and yield our property to
them. We have 80 far taken
no affirmative action and have
not taken or contemplated
single step in the premises, except in
obedience to the plainsst provisions OF
the law, and any reports to you to the
contrary are wholly untrue. II we are
failing in any duty, we are we'll awere
how to cheerfully perform it If pointed
out. While the men have reached their
position by force, overcoming US, and
while we are not under the slightest OBJ
legations, legal or moral, to do so. never
theless we will order our trains to take
them to Ell Psso II you desire, but no
farther, and with the expectation
that the company nor it's employees
will be subjected to any penalties pre-
scribed by any ordinance of such city
for the voluntary carrying of such men
into their limits. This is purely gratu-
itous without the slightest recognition
of legal or other obligation resting upon
us in the premises, or any lawful right
or any power on your part to require
and enforce it"
STANDING BY THE NOTICE.
To this the governor replied: "You
are advised that the state OF Texas
stands by its notice to you Of yesterday,
and will not multiply words on this
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