The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-02
MAD AS HORNETS
MRS. LEASES VICIOUS ATTACK on
OKLAHOMA Is RESENTED

| OKLAHOMA Is RESENTED
10 Despised of God Because it Wa
Taken From the Poor Red Man an,
That the Floods, Cyclones aud Crime
are all visItations From = vengefu
DeIty-This Most OutIandish sentimen
Makes the People of Oklahoma Wear,
and Hot-OAIahoma News.
Guthrie, o. T., May Those people
| here who have read Mrs. Leases viciou!
attack on Oklahoma are indignant. Ok
laho,na is verify believed TO be a God
favored spot, and the argument is made
that divine wrath is no more visited or
Oklahoma than in Mrs. Leases owr
Kansas or in Tennessee. Mississippi o,
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Leases interview
on the Guthrie food was given out al
| Topeka. In it, Mrs. Lease sees the hand
OF an angry God, and declares that tins
curse Of the Almighty rests on that land
She said:
THE people Of Ell Reno who prayed
daily for rain ought 10 have been build
ing an ark Mrs. Lease said. Il believe
in prayer. but what mockery such a
prayer is in Oklahoma!
The curse of the Almighty rests upon
that land. That was the last spot OF
ground left for the Indians. They have
been driven there from every quarter of
the continent. But the greed Of the
white man prompted him to possess It
for his own use, and the Indian was
forced to go. Then God frowned on the
territory.
Look at the crime that has been COM
mitied in Oklahoma; look al the drouih ;
look at the disaster at Chandler; look at
the deIuge at Guthrie, Ell Reno and else
where. Do you doubt that the hand Of
Jehovah is in these things? If ne had
been pleased with the people. would He
have washed away their homes with an
angry flood when they asked for show
er to save their crops?"
WRECK ON o. H. G.
The Manchester Journal says: The
first wreck Of any note that has ever
happened on the H. & S. road occurred
about o'clock Wednesday afternoon IN
a cut about TWO miles north of Manches-
ter. Engine No. left Medford with
train Of cattle, and after reaching the
state line Engineer Wilkie discovered
that ne was short of water, whereupon
he cut loose from the train and pulled
out for Anthony at thirty or forty mile
gait TO replenish the water supply A
heavy gale OF wind and rain was coming
from the north facing the engine and it
was impossible to see any distance
ahead. There is curve in the track at
the cut where the accident happened and
just when making this curve the engin-
eer discovered, less than 100 yards away.
a fat car on which was loaded railroad
tool house coming down the track at
lightning speed Wilkie reversed his en-
CINE and took refuge behind the boiler
head. Fireman Ed. Rowbottom left the
cab AMI received several bruises on
striking tne ground, but they are not
thought to be serious. Brakeman Ball,
son Of Y. Ball of this place. was on the
engine and held mis- position. The crash
was fearful one and came so sudden
that the speed Of the engine, though re-
versed, had not been checked. The lit
tie building on the fiat car was lifted
clear off by the engine and struck the
ground fifty feet or mora in the rear.
The fiat car was mashed into smither-
Gems and the engine trucks We're driven
back almost against thed rive wheels.
The engine was knocked off the track
but did not leave the roadbed. Wikie
and Bail experienced considerable shak-
.rs up but were unifurt The wild fiat
car had been side tracked at SpringSta-
ton and wnen the storm struck 1t it ran
through the closed switch. over the hill
and then, started down the long grade to
the state line at. lightning speed. En-
CINE No. 3 was telegraphed at Meiford
and a force Of men worked all night
building the track around the wreck.
Trains were running on time the next
OLD FILES HIDDEN.
The K:ngfisher Free Press mas the fol- |
lowing: The Guthrie Capital claims to
ssue being printed IN Winfield, Kansas, !
March 80. 1889. The Capital is mistak- !
IN. The Kingisher Free Press, which |
S the outgrowth Of the Oklahoma World |
lntedates the Capital nearly two months. |
The first seven issues Of the Oklahoma |
World are not on file in this office, but !
he eighth number is, and that II dated /
March so, 1889. The Oklahoma World |
vas published by Ellis Brothers in !
Wichita, Kansas. and edited by Colonel |
:. C. Cole. and he may have the original |
numbers II he is living. The last time
We saw him in Wichita he promised to
END them 10 this office. but has never
lone so. When We first took charge os
he World one or two earlier printed pa
,ers were on file. They contained some
ettsrsf rom persons who had come down
nto this country too soon, ana these per-
ons after became interested in suppress
ng this evidences and the papers disap-
feared.
Oklahoma City also had its fright The
,klahoman relates that Tuesday after
DON during the rain particularly WICK
d looking cloud came up from the west.
ne court room was crowded with law
ers. witnesses and spectators Of the
trial The cloud caused con-
iderable nervousness, not only 20 the
rowd. but 70 Judge Keaton. Several
mes he sized up the cloud through the
-indow and finally stated that a bad
,ok:ng cloud was coming from the wes.
ust al that time a gust OF wind howled
5ou; the court house. rafting the avn
lgs- The judge was just on the point
aijourning court AMI hurryinS 70 a
yclone cave. The crowd FASTENED nois-
Y from the court room. II an instant
ls wind laid and the rain began fall
g. The cour; recovered its dignity AM