St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-27
The Montana Commune Made
No Resistance.
GLIsTEKlEG BAY0HETS DID IT.
The Maneuver Of Col. Page
Was Brilliant.
HOGAN TRIES SPEECH MAKING,
But the Colonel Bids Him
Keep Quiet.
STORY OF THE Capture.
Further Particulars of the
Battle Of Billings.
CAPTURE.
COZ. PAGE AWAITING ORDERS.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MILES CITY. Mont, April 26. = The
Montana contingent of Coxey's army
came to grief last night, and now, about
500 in number, is under the guard of
the United States army. Your CORE
spondent accompanied the troops to
Forsyth at IL o'clock last night when
the surrender was made, and found that
the Coxeyites arrived there at lo
p. ni., having no trouble from
Billings, barring the continual heating
OF the engine, but here they found no
end of trouble in store for them.
Switches were all solidly spiked. en-
gines were all dead, being minus fire,
water and throttles, but, undaunted,
they selected Engineer O'Neifs pet,
No AIS. and proceeded to fire her up,
using hose to convey steam from the
abandoned ''hog.' to cause a forced
draught. 1t required the presence in
the shop of about fifty men and numer-
PRODUCE A THROTTLE.
All this consumed about two hours.
and accounted for their presence when
the troops arrived. In few seconds
the bluecoats were in line on the
ground. One company was then thrown
along the platform beside the Coxey
train, and the Montana commune, which
for sixty hours had full sway on the
Northern Pacific. were made prisoners
of war withouta shadow of resistance
from any one. Your representative was
then afforded the opportunity to
inspect the commonwealers and
their train. The latter consisted
of fourteen cars, one of provisions (and
1t was well filled). one of coal, one of
railroad tools and eleven TO carry the
army, each of which was we'll lighted
and contained from thirty to forty men,
together with their baggage, camp
equipage. etc., making total of about
400 men. About three hours later,
when two passenger traius came from
the west, they received
ABOUT 100 RECRUITS
who refused to pay fare. These were
also taken in custody by the soldiers.
The commouweal army failed to con-
trast very favorably with Lieut.. Col.
Pages regulars, whose blue uniforms
anu brown leggings, long toms. glisten-
ing bayonets and well-filled knapsacks
and cartridge boxes caused the dirty.
dusty and begrimed faces Of the ''army
of peace' to look even more Iepul-
sive than would otherwise have been
the case. as they anXiously gaZed from
the car doors upon the Twenty-second
regiment. Gen. Hogan's men had the
appearance of ordinary la5Orers. but,
as would be natural in such a
collection, there were numerous spec
linens of the professional tramp. Resi-
dents of Forsyth spoke highly of the
conduct of the CoXeyites, saying that
the officers kept them under close discip-
line preventing any overt acts. and it
was not until after the regulars arrived
that few of them scattered around
town. Capt. William Hogan is rather
under medium height. of slim build,
has light mustache, and is by no
means man possessing any of the
of
LEADER OF MEN.
He was inclined to be quite talkative
and desired to make spec CHI, but Col.
Page declined to permit 1t. To your
however, he was profuse in
the declaration that his followers were
peaceable men, having grievances
which they desired to make known i'll
Washington; that they had done moth
ing wrong, had not fought anybody.a and
did not intend to, and tnat one company
could have stopped his command just
as easily as whole regiment. AT pres
ent all of the comm onwealers are held
in the custody of the troops. and moth
ing will be done with them until orders
are received from the secretary of war
tinctien of being the first state to put an
effectual stop to the
RAvAGEs OF THE CoXEYITEs.
who simply did Just as they pleased,
stealing train and running the track
to their own notion, and forcing mail
trains and all to come to their time.
Whenever they reached station they
went in. registered the same as regular
trains. and asked for orders, which, be-
ing refused. they would pull out for
the East. Great credit is due to both
Supts. Dorsey and Finn for
the good Judgment which they
displayed in handling serious
matter. as well as to Lieut.. Col. Page
for the rapicity with which he equipped
and moved his regiment. This is the
nrst case of its kind on record The
witnesses of the tragedy at Billings
Wednesday say that the commonweal-
ers, having reached Billings about
noon, took another engine, and were
about ready to pull out when the train
carrying about fifty or sixty deputy
marsEals arrived. After the latter had
pulled up close to the Coxey train and
stopped, about dozen of the deputies
jumped down, all
ARMED WITH RIFLES.
and started toward the front end of the