Year: 1876

/ =


| An incident occurred on the Union Pa


cific express train from the west yesterday,


on its passage between Ogden and Omaha,


that created a great deal of CONSERVATION,


and some very excited and lively scramb-


ling around in one of the Pullman sleeping


cars. About o'clock yesterday morning,
| when the train was at Ogallala, passenger
got aboard and took berth in the sleeper.
! He did not get aboard in the full light of


the station lamps, but jumped ON in the


darkness, after the train had passed the
platform, and Immediately got into his


berth without removing any of his clothing,


except his boots, and otherwise acted as if


he feared that something would catch him,
And something did catch him, sure enough,
at the next station. The fellow was a


gambler who had been carrying on opera


tions at Ogallala in way that would not


square with even the gamblers code Of


morals. Ogallala is the great shipping


point for cattle on the line of the Union


Pacific, and at times great many cattle


dealers are there. The chap in question


had got to playing with these fellows, and


beat them out of $4,000 or $4,000, and


refused to disgorge. He had succeeded in


sneaking out and getting aboard the train


in the manner related, and was sneaking


off with his big stake. The enraged cattle


men did not propose to submit to the Cir


on, ond inco fhofr II, fbaf


way, SO they telegraphed the particulars to
some friends in Alkali, the next station,


who were likewise of the same resolute
stamp of cattle men. When the train
arrived they had possession Of it, and were
tearing through it to find the man who got
on at Ogallala. They found him innocently
pretending to sleep in his berth about the
middle of the Pullman, and the trouble
commenced. The fellow refused to leave
the car, but the cattle men assured him if
he wouldn't go they had the tools to take
him, and directed his attention to mule
standing quietly in the moonlight, with
long rope coiled up on the saddle. The
bell rang to start, and matters were pre-
cipitated by all parties drawing revolvers
and beginning to shoot promiscuously.
Curtains were torn down and frightened
passengers tumbled out to escape the
whistling bullets, and the utmost confusion
reigned, women screaming, and everybody
was rushing out of the car by means of
windows as we'll as doors, and soon the
prairie was covered with white-robed forms
fitting like ghosts in the moonlight. Tho
cattle men finally dragged out their victim,
tied him On the mule and started away
with him, and the passengers returned to
the coach, whence cries and screams and
groans were still issuing. One young lady
whose parents were on board was scream
ing and declaring that she was shot in the
leg, and medical attendance was summoned
from the station. The train was held to
await the arrival of the man of knives and
probes, and when he came professional
examination revealed the fact that pin in
the lady's stocking was cruelty sticking
her, There were some bullet holes through
the coach and several narrow escapes, but
not single passenger was hit by the reck-
less firing. The fate of the gambler who
caused the trouble could not be learned,
but it is known positively that he rode
back to Ogallala on that mule with the
rope in sight. The hunks, curtains, and
sides of the Pullman were pretty freely
perforated with balls.-O Omaha Herald.