The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07

took a position at the rear end of the train, twenty car lengths from the en- zine, and started Backward, in the direc- ton of Adairsville, without taking time to explain to the conductor or engineer. When he got within two hundred yards of the switch at Adairsville, Captain Fuller jumped off the train, ran ahead and changed the switch so as to throw the cars on the side track He accom- , plished this, changed the switch to the main track and jumped on the engine which had been uncoupled from the train. This feat was accomplished so quickly that the train and engine ran side by side for fully three hundred yards. He resumed the chase. making Calhoun, ten miles distant, in twelve minutes. As he approached Calhoun. Captain Fuller rec ognizad the operator from Dalton, lad 12 years old.
 The operator recognized Captain Fuller and as the engine passed by at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, grasped the hand of Captain Fuller and was safely landed on the engine. The ouerator hav- ing discovered that the wire had been cut, made his way down to Calhoun, looking for the break. As they sped along back wards. as fast as an engine with five foot ten-inch wheels could possible run, Cap tain Fuller wrote the following tee- gram to General Ledbetter, then in com mand at Chattanooga: My train was captured this morning at Big Shanty, evidently by federal soldiers In disguise. They are making rapidly for Chatta- nooga, possibly with an idea of burning the railroad bridges in their rear. If I do not capture them in the meantime see that they do not pass Chattanooga
 Captain Fullers desire now was to reach Dalton and send the telegram be- fore the fugitives could cut the wire be- yond Dalton.
 Two miles beyond Calhoun the fugitives were sighted for the first time, and from their movements they were greatly ex- cited. They detached one of their freight cars and left it at the spot where they were discovered. They had partially talk en up rail but that or the car did not detain Captain Fuller. He coupled the care to the engine without stopping, got on top of the freight car and gave sig nals to the engineer, by which he could run. as the car in front obscured his view. Two and half miles farther Cap tain Fuller came across another freight car which the fugitives had detached As before, he coupled this on, without stopping, and pushed on to Resaca, where he switched the two cars off on the siding.
 Again he started with an engine only. Two miles north of Resaca, while stand ing on the rear of the tender, he dis covered in short curve a Trail diag onally across the track, and being too close to stop the engine went over it at the rate of fifty-fve miles an hour. After this, until they reached Dalton. only occasionally were Instructions met with. At Dalton he dropped the telegraph operator with instructions to put through the telegram to General Ledbetter at all hazards, and continued the chase.
 1.Ax. Q fugitives tearing up the track. in plain view of Col Jesse A. Glenns' regiment, camped nearby. They cut the wire just after the telegraph operator had flashed Captain Fullers' telegram, preventing hm from receiving the usual acknowledg-