The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
STORY OF THE ANDREWS RAID.

1 hope of stopping the passenger train and thus avoiding a collision The crew of the passenger train heard the signals, and the raiders also heard the scream of the Texas, and to them no doubt 1t
 Sounded Like the Crack of Doom. As he neared Calhoun, Andrews noticed the passenger train standing on the main line-it had started to pull out, but hear ing the whistles had stopped He ran up close enough to be heard, and telling his story about the powder train, shouted his orders for the track to be cleared. With some hesitation, they were obey ed, the obstructing train backed on 10 the side track, and Andrews passed triumphantly on, waiving his hand to the crowd at the depot as he passed.
 The Texas with Fuller and Murphy were right behind. They slowed up enough to tell the news. and to snatch up and help aboard a telegraph operator ard passed on in hot pursuit. This operator was a young mana mere hoy in tact who had charge of the office at Dalton. Finding that the wires would not work south he had boarded the down train Tor Calhoun in an. effort to find out what was the matter. 7 Es9 .'- .f
 About. three srfiles from Calhoun the pursuer and pursued came
 In Sight of Each Other For the First
 Time.
 The raiders had stopped to remove an- other rail- when the Texas came in view This probably removed their last vestge of hope, while to Fuller and Murphy it must have acted as an inspiration, and no doubt the brave engineer of the Texas moved his lever one more notch, If his throttle was not already wide open.
 The only direct conflict of opinion be- IL. |. ass about what occurred at this stage of the game. Rev. Pittenger and his companions insist that a rail was taken up and in the first edition of his book, gives CaE- tain Fuller for his authority for rather remarkable explanation of now the Texas passed over the gap witfou halt. He says that the broken rail was on the inside of a sharp curve, and that round- ing curve at high speed the weight Is almost wholly on the outer rail, con- sequently the Texas passed over the gap with only a sharp jolt To practical rail- road men this solution w11i appear more ingenious than plausible. I have before me letters from Pittinger to Murphy dis cussing this matter, in the last of which he promises to make correction in the second edition of his book, as he says Captain Fuller's memory does not seem to be entirely clear on the subject. Murphy is very positive that no rail was taken up and that there was nothing amiss with the track when the Texas passed over it.
 As the pursuers neared them. the raiders cut loose one of the. three box cars and left 1t on the track. Quickly coupling on this car, the crew Of the Texas moved forward in pursuit of their prey. To prevent being closed in on. the raiders burst out the end of one of their remaining cars, which they had partially loaded with cross-ties, and commenced to drop them on the track in an effort to derail the following engine. This made hard work for Fuller and his crowd, and required great care and coolness to avoid accident and destruction. Many times they were able to reverse and stop just in time to remove the Instructions before running Into them.
 As they neared Resaca the raiders cut loose another car on or near the bridge over Oostan river, but were too close ly pursued to fire it, as they had in- tended. This car was also coupled on and both pushed into the side track at Res aca, and the chase resumed.
 From Resaca to Triton the road is very crooked, and the pursuing party were compelled to move with some degree of caution, as they were so close behind the raiders that they had apprehension Of an ambush, or of Andrews reversing h's engine and driving 1t back on them. But just beyond Triton there was a stretch of straight track of almost mile with curve at each end. Here the crews of the two engines were again in sight ef each other, as the Texas rounded one curve and the General disappeared around another. Seeing that the General was go-- ing as fast as steam could move 1t, Bracken let out the Hast link he had The road bed was in bad condition, and T ~I.~1 Ilr en man as she bounded over the track at the rate of about mile a minute
 The next station was Dalton and the raiders flew by with scarcely a halt, hut the Texas slowed up enough to let off the telegraph operator, who rushed to his instrument to forward the dispatch to Chattanooga, which Fuller had written notifying General Ledbetter of what had happened. A short distance above Dalton the raiders stopped to cut the telegraph wires and attempt to remove another rail. They succeeded in cutting the wire, but the boy operator was too quick for them, as at least a part of his message had gone forward and Fuller and the Texas were too close on them to give time to remove rail or damage the track.
 Just before reaching Tunnel Hill, she next station, Is a long tunnel. and as they approached this the pursuers became convinced that the race was theirs, and that the General was nearly out of wood, for there was but little smoke emerging from the tunnel as they approached 1t. Rushing into the midnight darkness of this tunnel seems to have been the most reckless part of the reckless race of Full Ter and Murphy. The raiders had no more cross-ties to drop, but the crew of the Texas had no knowledge of this. Neither did they stop to think that the General may have been abandoned inside the tunnel and left to wreck them in tke darkness.
 End of the Race.
 After passing through the tunnel the General was soon In sight again, and by her gait showed plainly that her race was nearly run. Between Tunnel Hill and Ringgold Andrews played his last card, by setting fire to his remaining box car and leaving it on the track inside of the covered bridge across Chickamauga creek in the hope of burning at least one bridge. But as it was raining In tor rents, this too, was a failure. It succeeded only in delaying their capture a few miles, as Fuller and Murphy had to couple on to the car and stop long enough at Ringgold to shove 1t into the side track. About three miles from Ringgold the Texas bore down on the General, as the raiders were jumping off, some on one side of the road and some on the other.
 The pursuers had expected a fight. and realized that they were poorly prepared for it, but Andrews had given the order for his men to scatter and each man to do the best he could for himself. This was fatal mistake as their case, though desperate was not by any means hope less. There were only seven men and