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

places, carrying with them about a hun dred yards of the wire. This statement satisfied Captain Fuller that these men were federals in disguise. This added new stimulus to his resolve, and his de- termination then was not only to capture the engine but also the federals.
 With the assistance of the track men he placed a hand car on the track, and went back for his engineer Knowing , the schedules, grades, stations, and dis tances well. he was confident that by using great effort he could reach Etowah river by the time the fugitives could reach Kingston. At that place he knew that the" would have to contend with num- Der of freight trains, which would nec- essary detain them several minutes. As soon as he got his comrades he told them of his plan to push on to Etowah as quickly as possible, for there he hoped to get old "Yonah' an engine used at an iron works. His plan proved successful.
 They found no Instructions until they reached short curve two miles from Etowah. Here two rails from the outside of the curve had been taken up and as result the hand-car was ditched.
 The "Yonah" was found as expected on a side track with the tender on the turn table. This was turned around, pushed to the engine and a coal car attached. Some six or eight Confederate soldiers NOlunteereu III the cndSe, ltklnS passage in the coal car. From Etowah to King ston Captain Fuller nan at the rate of sixty miles per hour. and found the fugi- tves had passed by.
 Several freight trains had pulled by the station so as to let the fugitives out at the further end of the track. The agent informed Captain Fuller that the leader of the fugitves had claimed to be Confederate officer who had i'm ho tpa ot Riy ShantU md tl,a three cars were loaded with ammunition for General Beauregard at Cornth Captain Fuller. he said. was behind with the regular train. He insisted that the agent should let him have a switch key and instruct the conductors of the down trains to pull by, and get out of his way as it was important for him to go on to Chattanooga and Corinth as rapidly as possible Realizing that it would re- quire too much valuable time to get the heavily laden freight trains out of the way. Captain Fuller abandoned the "Yonah' and took possession of the Rome engine which stood on the 'Y' and was headed towards Chattanooga.
 He had not proceeded far before he found crossties on the track every two or three hundred feet. After passing King ston the fugitives had punched out the end of the rear car, which enabled them to drop out ties without stacking up. Removing these instructions, of course. took time. Laboring under these disad- vantages the pursuers redoubled their energy, and proceeded to Adairsvlle. Reaching point four miles from the latter place, Captain Fuller found sixty wards of track torn up, and he then set out on foot. calling on his men to follow Murphy only obeyed. An ex- press train was overtaken after two mile run. and having gun and knowing the signal the engineer recognized Cap tain Fuller. and stopped his train im- medately.
 Knowing that MT. Murphy was only a short distance behind. the train was detained until he came up. He then