The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-09

on the west end there never would
have been a strike
Sitting at their camp fire while their
crews mingled, Blair noticed in the
flicker of the blaze how scanned the
throat and breast of the cattleman
were; even his sinewy forearms were
drawn out of shape. He asked, too,
whether Blair recoilected the night the
barracks burned; but Blair at that
time was east of the river. and so
explained, though he related TO the
cowboy incidents of the fire which he
had heard. among others the story Of
Fitzpatrick and Sielone Clark.
And Fitzpatrick is alive and 81
clone Is dead" said Blair, in con-
cIusion. But the cowboy disputed him.
You mean Clark is alive and Fitz-
patrick is dead" said he
NO" contended Sidney, 'sFitzpat-
rick is running an engine up there
now. 1 saw him within three months"
But the cowboy was loath to couvic-.
ton.
Next morning their trails forked.
The foreman seemed disinelined TO
part from the surveyors, and while the
bunch was starting he rode a long way
with Blair, talking in a random way.
Then, suddenly wheeling, he waved
goodbye with his heavy Stetson, and,
galIoping hard, was soon lost to the
north in the ruts of the Yellow Grass.
When Blair came in he told Neigh
Dor and me about it, Blair had never
seen Siclone Clark, ana SO was no
judge as to his identity; but Neigh
Dor believes yet that Blair camped
that night way down in the Panhandle
with no other than the cowboy en-
gineer-
Once again, that only two years ago,
something came back to US.
Holmes Kay, one of our staff of sur
geons, the man, in fact, who took care
of Fitzpatrick, enlisted in Illinois and
went with the First to Cuba. They
got in front of Santiago just after the
hard fighting of July 1, and Holmes
was detailed for hospital work among
RoOsevelt's men, who had suffered Sc
verely the day before.
One of the wounded, a sergeant, had
sustained a gunshOt wound in the jaw,
and in the confusion had received
Scant attention. Kay took hold of him.
He was a cowboy, like most of the
rough riders, and after his jaw was
dressed Kay made some remark about
the hot fire they had been through be-
fore the block house.
i've been through a hotter before
ever saw Cuba answered the rough
rider, as well as he could through his
bandages. The remark directed Kay's
I attention to the condition of his breast
and neck, which were a mass of scars.
Where are you from?' asked
Holmes.
Everywhere"
Where did you get burned that
way?"
out on the plains.'
How"
But the poor fellow went off into a
delirium. and to the surgeons amaze
ment began repeating train orders.
Kay was paralyzed at the way he
talked our lingO-and a cowboy When
he left the wounded man for the night
he resolved to question him more close
ly the next day; but the next day or
ders came to rejoin his regiment at the
trenches The surrender shifted things
about, and Kay, though he made re-
peated inquiry, never saw the man
again.
Neighbor, when he heard the story.
was only confirmed in his belief that
the rough rider was Siclone Clark 1
give you the tales as they came to me.
and for what you may MAKE of them.
l, myself. believe that if Siclone
Clark is still alive he will one day vet
come back to where he was best
known and, in spite of his faults. best
liked. They talk of him out there as
they do of old man Sankey.
/ L say L believe if he lives he will one
day come back. The day he does will
be a great day in McCloud. On that
day Fitzpatrick will have to take down
the little tablet which he placed in the
brick facade Of the hotel which now
stands on the site of the old barracks
For, as that tablet now stands. if is
sacred to the memory of Siclone Clark
Copyright, 1890, by Frank II Spea rman