The morning call., 1894-04-21
TOOK A TRAIN
Which General Kelly
Refused.
ANGRY MEN OF OMAHA
Rose on the Railroad
Companies.
1T LOOKED LIKE TROUBLE
1T LOOKED LIKE TROUBLE
When Throngs Surged Through
the Streets.
WISER CoUNsELs RULED ATLAST
And the California Industrial Army
Will March Out of Iowa
on Foot.

OMAHA, April 20-General Kelly dis
played the rarest of Judgment and fortitude
tonight when he declined to put his men on
board train stolen at Council Bluffs by
the engineers and flremen of the Union
Pacific. 1t was Union Pacific engine
with Union Pacific cars on the Rock Island
track. Kelly declined it because he said
he had not yet broken any law and did not
intend to start il here. There was great
excitement here all day and it was inten-
sified at nightfall by the news that train
had been captured to relieve Kelly.
Crowds thronged the streets and an I'M
mense open-air meeting was held. Ru-
mors of the, calling out OF the Federal
troops, OF State troops, of deaths In Kelly's
ranks and of every conceivable nature
kept the crowd at tension hard to under
stand, but no disorder unusual ensued and.
as If by miracle, the clash that seemed
inevitable was avoided and Kelly's army
slept in camp at Weston waiting for day.
break to march to Council Bluffs, whence
a new start East will be made on foos.
Quiet was restored in The three cities by
midnight.
Three thousand laboring men marched
out of Omaha to-day with banners flying
bound for the camp of Kelly's Common
wealers at Weston. Iowa. fourteen miles east
of Council Bluffs. At O'Clock the signal
agreed upon, the ringing of church bells
and blowing of whistles, was given, an
nouncing that Kelly's army was still at
Weston unable to secure train for the
East. Inside of FIVE minutes 1000 men
ga hered in jefferson Square. quickly or
ganlzed and the march was taken up. At
every street recruits were received, formed
into companies and provided with banners.
The column had been preceded to Council
Bluffs by committee of prominent citi-
zens to call upon Governor jackson and
the managers of the railroads and urge
that the Commonwealers be at once
started East.
While the column was marching Gen.
eral Kelly was in Omaha with Governor
Jackson and President ST. John of the
Rock Island Railroad. st. John said he
was not in the position to grant train, as
the matter was wholly in the hands of the
president of the trunk lines. A promi-
nent man suggested that the army levy on
the farmers for horses and wagons: that
the army be split into squads of 100 and
spread out over territory of TWEEN ty-fve
miles wide and march on foot across the
State, as such plan would soon bring the
people to time, for the army would practi-
cally devastate the country through which
1t passed, and the railroads would then be
forced to carry the Commonwealars out OF
the country. 1t is said the anarchists in
the column marching out of Omaha had
dynamite with them, but how much was
not known.
Meanwhile the column marching to
Kelly's army swelled to 5000 on
the march, It halted at Bayliss
Park. where committee was ap-
pointed to present the demands to the
railroad people. Mr.. Dnryea told the
committee that he had done all that was
possible 10 get transportation, but in vain.
He said that the army must go back to the
Chautauoua grounds and await transpor
tation to Kansas City.or take advantage of
the Rock Island offer to carry the meu as
regular passengers.
Kelly had long interview with Gov
ernnr jackson. The Governor notified
Kelly that the citizens of Council Bluffs
army to Kansas City and provided shelter
during the preparations. Kelly replied
that he refused to go. but would submit the
proposition to the men.
The outpouring from Omaha began to
make its lungs heard as the streets choked
up with the crowd and Kelly fairly pulled
away from the Governor, excusiDg himself
for haste by the extreme desire not to be
ecognized and delayed by the crowd. He
expressed himself to the Governor as not
blaming him for the detention caused by
the railways. but said he and his men
came here-as citizens of the United States.
peaceabIe and orderly. and they simply
asked to be treated with decent hospital
ity. In bidding the Governor good-by he
shook him by the hand and said:
81 may never meet you again, yet hope
that If should thus be favored the next
time we enter the State of Iowa, it will
not be as mendicants, but that we will be
welcomed as worthy citizens Of the coun-
try anxious to further all its best inter-
ests."
His voice trembled, and his courteous
bow and retirement made such an I'M pres
sion that for several moments there was a
the problem continued, until 1t was broken
up by the noisy entrance OF the committee
from Omaha with a crowd behind them.
In the meantime Kelly hurried out a
back stairway, stepped up an alley and by
a short cut reached horse standing in
front of the Bee Office and hurriedly
mounting was off for Weston. AS he rode
away one enthusiastic fellow grabbed his
leg and strove to detain him. urging him
to talk to the crowd. but he pushed him
aside and galloped away.
While the committee was at work In
Council Bluffs other committees were be-
siegng the telegraph Offices with tee-
grams to the presidents Of the two trunk
lines. At II o'clock the following Vas
sent:
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Iowa, April 20.
TO Maruin Hi,0l1itt, president Chicago and