The Bessemer indicator., 1894-05-12
SANDERS TAKES TRAIN.
The Cripple Creek Army Leave Puebi.
but Meet with Trouble.

but Meet win Trouble.
News came from Pueblo Tuesday
night that Sanders and his army OF
400 men from Cripple Creek and Pu-
eblo had started for the east. All
efforts to secure transportation at re-
duced rates having proved unsuccess-
full, Sanders and the other leaders re-
solved on a bold stroke. At $50 in
the evening as an engine Of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad was taking
coal the fireman being of the engine
it was suddenly surrounded by fifteen
of the men under General Sanders.
They took the engineer and ran the
locomotive down to the Missouri Pa
cifc yards, where six coal cars had
been left short time before. The
whole band boarded these cars, and at
taching the Rio Graude engine, start
ed for the east at lively rate. -Four
miles out they met an engine which
was coming in for the purpose Of tax
ing out the regular passenger train, as
none of the rolling stock had been
kept near the town since the Cripple
Creekers arrived. The engineer re-
yersed and ran back, keeping ahead Of
the industrials. The latter stopped
their train at Boone, aud took coal
and water. The train passed Nepesta
going at the rate of fifty miles an hour
The railroad officials ordered that an
engine and box car be ditched in a cut
at Olney thirty-nine miles out. 1t
was thought that this would stop the
runaways. 1t was reported during the
night that the men were hard at work
laying track around the obstruction.
Superintendent Derby in anticipation
of their succeeding ordered the water
tanks beyond to be emptied so that
they could not run their engine far.
He said other cars would be ditched in
front Of them if necessary.
The army succeeded in laying tie IN
porary track around the ditched engine
at Olney and proceeded eastward. At
Haswell's another similar obstruction
was met and gotten around the same
way, after four hours hard work
Near Chiyington a more serious wreck
in big cut proved serious obstacle
in their path. A 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 that they must get in to
Kansas Thursday morning.
The chief incident of the day oc-
CURED when the engineer on the com.
monweal engine discovered that he
was running low on water. The tanks
used for filling the tenders with water
had been drained by orders of the rail
way management. The commonweal-
ers were aware of this move, and so,
when the water was announced to be
low, the men were drawn up into line
after the fashion of an old-time fire
brigade, and by the use of tin cans
cotfee-pots and few buckets, the en-
gine tender was rcplenishe1 from an
irrigating ditch which flowed conven
iently near the track.
Neither the county, state nor United
States officials in Colorado have made
any move toward the capture of the
men. United States officials in Den.
yer refused to act because it had no,
been made clear to them that the
United States mails were being de-
layed. The sheriff at Pueblo an.
nounced that he would move east with
a posse Wednesday morning, but foi
some reason not made clear he aban.
doned the plan.
\ special train bearing railroad off
cials and 300 deputies was reported
Wednesday night to be moving west
ward to meet and arrest the army.