The Delta independent., 1894-05-16
THE COLORADO ARMY.
sanders Forces Capture = Train and
start East stward.

sanders Forces Capture = Train and
start Eastward.
News came from Pueblo Tuesday night
that Sanders AID his army Of 400 men from
Cripple Greek and Pueblo had started for the
east. All efforts to secure transportation at
reduced rates having proved unsuccessful,
Sanders and the other leaders resolved on u
bold stroke. At 6.3O in the evening as an
engine of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
was taking coal, the fireman being of the en-
gine, it was surrounded by fifteen of the men
under General Sanders They took the en-
gIneer and ran the locomotive down to tho
Missouri Pacific yards. A train consisting
Of a D. & r. G. yard engine, one coach, one
mail car, one baggage car and seven box cars
was run down to the camp, the men speedily
boarded it when the train pulled out for the
east over the Missouri Pacific road.
Four miles out they met an engine which
was 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 Creekers arrived. The en-
gineer reversed and ran back, keeping ahead
of the industrials. The latter stopped their
train at Boone and took coal and water. The
train passed Nepesta going at the rate Of fifty
miles an hour.
The railroad officials ordered that an en-
gine and box car be ditched in . cut at Olney,
thirty-nine miles out 1t was thought that
this would stop the runaways. 1t was re-
ported during the night that the men were
hard at work laying track around the OBJ
struction. Superintendent Derby, in antici-
patton Of their succeeding ordered the water
tanks beyond 10 be emptied so that they
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other cars would be ditched In front Of them
If necessary.
The army succeeded in laying temporary
track around the ditched engine at Olney and
proceeded eastward. At Haswell's another
similar obstruction was met apd gotten
around the same way, after four hours hard
work. Near Chivington q more serious
wreck In a big cut proved q 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 they must get into Kan
sas Thursday morning.
The chief incident Of the day occurred
when the engineer on the commonweal en-
gine 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
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-timc fro brigade, and by the use Of tin
cans, coffee pots and few buckets, the ell
gine tender was replenished from an irrigat-
ing ditch which foSed 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. Mall trains from each
direction soon had Sanders train between
them. and then case could be made out Of
having obstructed the mails. A special train
from the east, bearing United States Marshal
Neelcy and 100 deputies, the United States
commissioner and officials Of the road, met
the industrials and General Sanders was
paced under arrest. 1t was the intention of
the marshal to arrest only the leader, and he
quietly submitted, saying he would leave It
all to the men. Each company went into
consultation, and stated that they would SUBJ
nit TO the generals arrest only on the terms
that the entire army was placed under arrest,
The marshal agreed to accommodate them
nnd 10 short time a train Of passenger
coaches wns made up TO carry the whole army
to Topeka. Once at Topeka, the industrIals
hope 10 be released, and they would bs that
much Reassr Washington Tho railroad ofa,
nials think ihsl they osn n less. coaytet The
leaders.
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