The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-20
A DRUNKEN DEBAUCH
Was the Sunday Base Ball Excur-
sion to Leavenworth.
FIGHTING AND SPEWING In THE CARS.


Windows Smashed Out by the Drunk
en- Occupants-The Sound of Break
ing Glass Almost Audible Before the
Train Got Into Town.
1t seemed last night while the train
was returning that at least half the peo-
pie who went on the Leavenworth ex-
cursion went for the sole purpose of get
ting drunk. If they did they succeeded
in accomplishing their purpose. 1t was
a bowling, drunken crowd which came
home All were not drunk but enough
were intoxicated to make the home trip
most disgraceful.
Leavenworth saloons were open to re-
ceive the visitors and no regard was paid
to the fact that it was Sunday. In some
cases the front doors were locked, but
there was always a back way to the bar
and some obliging man near at hand to
show the way. Leavenworth is a drunk
en-, ill-smelling hole seven days in the
week.
Long before the train left Leaven-
worth, drunken men reeled up and down
the aisles of the cars, singing, shouting
and staggering hopeiessly against those
three cars and not sitting-room for all,
and that fact added to the confusion.
When the train started a wild shout
went up as if the drunken men them
selves were glad to leave Leavenworth
and its 270 saloons. The train had
hardly started when trouble COM
menced The middle car was the
| center of confusion and that was the
scene of the first drunken fight. 1t was
- b. n
dies, but in the other cars the women
were compelled to listen to vile language
and swearing from the drunken men.
| They should have known better than to
have gone.
There are several species of drunken
men. One is pulled up with his own
| importance, and wants to fight every one
in sight; another is exceedingly happy
and all the world are his friends: and
still another sits with heavy eyelids and
| falls to sleep at the first opportunity;
while others throw up the contents of
their stomachs on the floor. All these
| were on the train last night.
81 can lick any man on EARTH" shouted
a young man who moves in swell society
in Topeka, and he brandished his fist
with show of ferceness.
We'll see about that" said another
fellow near him springing to his feet
They rushed at each other, but friends
held them, and the air became very blue
as they fought the battle out with words.
sAnother young man was doing his best
to steady himself on a seat when some
one in the aisle said something which
offended him. He made lunge and the
man behind him grabbed him by the
coat and the feet of the pugnacious
young man went through a car window
and hung outside.
"Do you think l am drunk?" asked
some one who was doing his best to sus-
tain his equilibrium in the aisle. ~Just
watch me and l will walk the bell rope. -
If was after the train was half way
| home that the crowd became the noisiest.
! Three different men in the middle car
were pushed against windows, which were
broken, and once or twice the men came
near falling through When the train
reached Topeka five windows in the car
had been broken.
No one was seriously hurt in the fights
which occurred in the middle car though
one man had his hand badly cut by glass.
| Before the train reached Topeka many
of the drunken men were sleeping sound
| ly and instead of maudIin shouts and
singing the cars echoed with their snor-
ing
| The Ball Game.
| There were at least $50 neonIa who
went to Leavenworth on the excursion
train. The base ball game came off as
advertised but not many OF the Topeka
people witnessed it. 1t was 11:3O when
| the train reached the Union Pacific danot
/ The ball game was somewhat OF a dis