The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-17

Sitting nt their campfire while theiI
crews mingled, Blair noticed in the
flicker Of the blaze how scanned the
throat and breast OF the cattlemun
were. Even his sinewy forearms were
drawn out of shape. lie asked, too
whether Blair recolIected the night the
barracks burned, but Blair at that time
was east of the river and so explained
though he related to the cowboy Incl
dents of the fire which he had heard,
among others the story OF Fitzpatrick
and Siclone Clark.
"And Fitzpatrick Is alive. and ST.
clone Is dead" said Blair In conclu-
sion. But the cowboy disputed him.
you mean Clark is alive and Fitz-
patrick is dead" said he.
NO" contended Sidney. "Titzpat-
rick is running nm engine up there
now. | saw him within three months"
But the cowboy was loath to convic-
tlon.
Next morning their trails forked
The foreman seemed disncllned to
part from the surveyors, and while the
bunch was starting he rode II long way
with Blair, talking in random way.
Then, suddenly wheeling, he waved a
goodby with his heavy Stetson and.
galloping hard. was soon lost to the
north In the ruts OF the Yellow Grass.
When Blair came in he told Neighbor
and me about it, Blair had never seen
Siclone Clark and so was no Judge as
tO la ~ 1,ttf nj
yet that Blair camped that night way
down in the Panhandle with no other
than the cowboy engineer.
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 /, and Holmes
was detailed for hospital work amorg
Roosevelts men, who had suffered Sc
verely the day before.
One of the wounded. sergeant, had
gunshot wound in the jaw
and in the confusion had received
scant attention. Kay took hold of
him. He was 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 before the blockhouse
I'D been through hotter before
ever saw Cuba" answered the rough
rider as well as he could through his
The remark directed Kay's
attention to the condition of his
breast and neck, whicn We're mass
Of scars.
Where are you fromw asked
Holmes.
'Eveywhere.'
"Where did you get burned that
way?"
"Out on the plains"
"How?'
But the poor fellow went off into a
lelirium and to the surgeons amaze
nent began repeating train orders.
Kay was paralyzed at the way he
alked our lingo-and a cowboy. When
lie left the wounded man for the night
le resolved to question him more
closely the next day. but the next day
'rders came to rejoin his regiment at
The trenches. The surrender shifted
things about, and Kay, though he
made repeated inquiry, never saw the
nan again.
Neighbor when he heard the story
was only confirmed in. his belief that |
he rough rider was Siclone Clark. |
give you the tales as they came to me
md for what you may make of them.
! myself believe that If Siclone Clark |
s still alive he will one day yet come |
back to where he was best known and, |
n spite of his faults. best liked. They |
ak of him out there as they do of |
I'D man Sankey.
say believe if he lives he will one
lay come back. The day he does will
De great day in McCloud On that
lay Fitzpatrick will have to take down
he little tablet which lie placed in
he brick facade of the hotel which
low stands on the site of the old bar
'acks. for as that tablet now stands
t is sacred to the memory of Siclone
Clark.