Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-09
TROOPS EN- ROUTE To BRIDGEPOET

TROOPS EN- ROUTE To BRIDGEPORT.
How Two Regiments and a Battery Made
the Trip From BsllaIre.
Adjutaut General Howe with the
Second sud Fourteenth regiments and
Bottery Il, consisting Of two GatIing
guns, Bellairs about two o'clock,
after having left the Eighth aud Seven
teenth regiments and Battery B on the
line o. the B. S o., aud being assured
that that road was thoroughly open
for all sorts of transportation.
The train was In two sections and
cOnsiSte Of twenty-five passenger cars
for troops, a baggage car, a platform
car for the battery, and passenger
car for the headq quarters Of the General
commanding. A REGISTER reporter
met the train at Bellaire and went with
the troops TO Wheeling Creek mines.
The train was transferred from the
3. s. o. tracks to the Cleveland and
Pittsburg, the c., L. & w. road being
out of service between Bridgeport and
BeIlaire owing 10 the FIRE az the Whisky
Run bridge. II was half past four be-
fore the transfer was made and the t-O
loag trains had been run up as far as
the Beiiaire steel plant.
Here General Howe ordered a halt
until he could communicate with Gov
ernOr Mckinley, for orders, the original
instructions having no bearing upon the
disturbance along the c., l.. & w.
While the troops we're waiIing the Com
missary General and his staff began a
skirmish for supplies, and il was not
long until wagons loaded with bread,
meat, coffee aud other supplies, were at
the tram, and the food was transferred
90 the baggage car While this Was
going on an immense crowd Of Bellare
people, largely made up OF women and
Chiidfen, assembled along the track.
While they were generally quiet, and had
evidently assem blsd from pure curiosity,
% see the troops, IL was evident, from
the remarks of many Of the men, that
the general sympathy was with the MI
nerS, and against the troops.
About q quarter past five telegraphic
order were received from Governor Nc
Kinley for the troops TO proceed out
the c., L. & W., but as passenger
train was about due from Bridgeport
another DELAY snsued, and il was not
until twenty minutes past six that the
order came for the train 10 advance.
The two sections were then made up
into one long train, with the headQuar-
terS car, which contained a dozen or tif-
teen newspaper men, ia advance,
and the Gat car with the gat-
things next, aud in this or
der the run 90 Bridgeport was COM
menced There was a general feeling
among the troop that II they were TO
have any trouble al all they were getting
close 10 it, aud as the train approached
Bridgeport the military regulations
were tightened I'D. A squad of men
were sent ahead into the cab aud upon
the tender Of the engine, other men
we're placed in the headquarters car,
while the platform car was lined on each
side by infantry, who crOuched down
under the low sides, with loaded rifles.
The canvas covers were also taken off
the Gattling guns.
When the glass house, at the south
end Of KirkwoOG, was reached, the en-
DlONHS eW2I lAu4 uul uuu JGCAuu ~ tu6
soldiers. A little above the train was
halted, ana ths headquarters was trans
ferred to a c., L. & w. passenger coach,
the B. & o. coach being under
orders 70 return to Bellaire. While the
transfer was being made, a squad OF
men alighted and the track was cleared
and seutries posted. A very large
crowd Of curious peOple collected while
this was going on, and spectators were
thick all through Bridgeport.
AT ten minutes OF seven o'clock every
thing was ia readiness 70 proceed out
the c., 81. W, and after a conference
between General Howe, Sheriff Scott
and General Manager Woodiord, OF the
C., l. & W., the start was made from
the Bridgeport yards of the c., l. & w.
for the scene of expected trouble at the
mines.
When the troop train arrived at
Bridgeport General Howe was very
strongly inclined 20 90 into camp there,
aud defer moving out TO the mines
until this moraiRg, bus Manager Wood