Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-14

LuChyg luC to swim across, but Morgan ordered him back. Turning in the river, the willing slave shouted: "Luk yer, Mars Morgan! Eff de Yankees take yo' dey gwine let yo' off on payrole, but ef dis niggah get cotched in a free state he atn't gwine get back hum no mo- en- turin dis long wahv' He made for the Virginia shore, narrowly missed being run down by a gunboat and, gaining the bank, disappeared in the woods.
 For six days longer the raiders and their pursuers raced northward. On Sunday morning, July 26, Major Ways battalion of Ninth Michigan cavalry dashed into the flying column and be- gan sabering and shooting right and left. Major Way rode up to Morgan, who was riding in a carriage, and reached for him, but the agile Ken tuckian jumped out at the opposite side, leaped a fence and mounted the horse of one of his troopers who had been shot from the saddle. Away he flew, followed by the boldest of his men, who took the cue from their lead CT, broke from their captors and gal loped at his heels.
 Morgan struck out across country to- ward Smiths ford, intending to cross to Pennsylvania soil. Before reaching the river the handful was again cir cumvented, this time by Major Rue's battalion of Kentuckians. Several of the raiders tried to ride out of the trap at breakneck speed, but they were fired upon from all sides, and Morgan in per son hoisted the white flag. Morgan claimed to have surrendered to q home guard captain under q treaty wholly in his favor. This was repudiated by Gen. eral Shackleford and Colonel Wool ford, whose brigades were at hand. Morgan asked to be placed on the field again with $50 sabers for a settlement of the dispute by trial of arms, but
 finally yielded to the advice of Colonel Woolford, a Kentuckian and an old friend of the raider, who had been at the head of the pursuit from the start
 The raiding adventure eliminated in one of the most remarkable prison es- capes in lestory. Morgan and his off, cers, to the number of seventy, were imprisoned in the penitentiary at Co., lumbus. Their cells were set in solid masonry so formed as to constitute an interior structure similar to cage i'll q large room. The raiders were locked in the cells between sundown and sun- rise, were not permitted to have news papers, and their correspondence was rigidly censored. '.:H. A..a.
 After some study one of the prison CTS, Captain Thomas H. Hines, came to the conclusion that there must be an air chamber beneath the floor of the cage. Cutting away the cement floor with steel case knives, Morgan, Hines and four others found chamber six feet wide and four feet high. It ex- tended to the end of the wing in which the cage was built. Working from the chamber, the prisoners tunneled through twenty-seven feet of wall and earth to the prison yard.
 With five comrades Morgan went out one night. They scaled the outer wall by means of a rope and grappling hook, exchanged their prison garb for citizens clothing and boarded train for Cincinnati. Morgan and Hines jumped from the train before it reach ed the station, crossed the Ohio in a skin and were soon in Kentucky among friends. Tn few days they had horses, money and pistols. After sev- eral adventures and narrow escapes Morgan reached his own lines, but Hines was recaptured while shielding his chief in most daring manner. GEORGE l.. KILMER.