The Meeker herald., 1894-05-19
THE COLORADO ARMY.
sanders Forces Capture Train and
start Eastward.

start Eastward.
News came from Pueblo Tuesday night
that Sanders and his army OF 400 men from
| Cripple Creek and Pueblo had started for the
east. All efforts TO secure transportation Mt
reduced rates having proved unsuccessful,
Sanders and the other leaders resolved on a
bold stroke. At 80 in the evening us an
engine OF the Denver u Rio Grande railroad
was taking coal, the fireman being oil the en-
ginc, 1t was surrounded by fifteen OF the men
under General Sanders. They took the en-
ginecr and ran the locomotive down to the
Missouri Pacific yards. train consisting
OF a ID. Il X. G. yard engine, one coach, one
man car, one baggage car ana seven eoA sv'fs
was run down TO the camp, the men speedily
boarded ii when the train pulled out for the
east over the Missouri Pacific road
Fou. miles out they met an engine which
wa. coming in for the purpose of taking out
the regular passenger train, as none OF the
rolling stock has been kept near the town
since the Cripple Checkers arrived. The en-
gineer reversed and ran back, keeping ahead
OF the industrials. The latter stopped their
train Mt Boone and took coal and water. The
train passed Nepcsts going at the rate OF fifty
miles an hour.
The railroad officials ordered that an en-
CINE and box car be ditched In cut at Oluey
thirty-nine miles out. Il was thought that
this would stop the runaways. 1t was re-
ported during the night that the men wore
hard at work laying a track around the OBJ
structon. Superintendent Derby, in antci-
| patton OF their succeeding ordered the water
| tanks beyond 10 be cmpt.ed so that they
| could not run their engine far. He said
other cars would be ditched in front Of them
| II necessary.
The army succeeded in laying temporary
track around the ditehed engine at Oiney and
proceeded eastward. At Haswelrs another
similar obstruction was met and gotten
around the same way, after four hours hard
work. Near Chlvlngton a more serious
wreck in big cut proved serious obstacle
in their path. part of the 554 men went to
work there, while the others wandered into
| ChivIngton, where they camped for the night
The wrecked cars may be burned to clear the
way. The men said they must ge: into Kan
sas Thursday morning.
The chief incident of the day occurred
when the engineer on the commonweal en-
| CINE discovered that he was running low on
water. The tanks used for filling the tenders
with water had been drained by order OF the
railway management. The commonwcalers
we're aware OF this move, and So when the
water was announced 10 be low, the men were
drawn up into line, after the fashion Of an
old-tme fire brigade, and by the use OF tin
cans, coffee pots and few buckets, the en-
CINE tender was replenished from an irrigat-
| ing ditch which ioSe conveniently near the
| track.
The county and state officials of Colorado
and Governor Lewelling OF Kansas, all having
declined to interfere with Sanders army, the
Missouri Pacific management decided Thurs
day morning that they must get the federal
| government TO assist. In order TO accom-
plish this the distractions at Chivington were
removed aud the industrial train allowed to
proceed into Kansas. Mail trains from each
direction soon had Sanders train between
them, and then case could be made out OF
having INSTRUCTED the mails. A special train
from the east, bearing United States Marshal
Medley and 100 deputies, the United States
commissioner and officials of the road, met
the indus,rials and General Sanders was
the marshal to arrest only the leader, and he
quietly submitted, saying he would leave 1t
all to the men. Each oUpany went intu
consultations and stated that they would sub
nit TO the generals arrest only on the terms
| that the entire army was placed under arrest
| The marshal agreed 10 accommodate them,
and In short Time train OF passenger
! coaches was made up to carry the whole army
to Topeka, Once q. Topeka, the industr!als
hops 10 he released, and lhsT would be that
much neaFsF Warrington Ths fsi!i1al OIL.
eials shlnk that lbsy eaH ss lpss, eoDyiQ. tho
tpaders
The l'alf lead Of arrested msa reached Ts.