| Show complot COm SlOT k at a ralrh aej baur chicano april 2 A daily wf special from guthrie oklahoma vin city baa Is plunged in inextricable ont the differences of ihal factions ais to the beat 0 lie central town haie the efforts of half a doyen bublic meetings to settle them excitement is at a very hiah pitch and ia beginning to waver the ing of fifteen thousand un and nn provisioned people is eliat ronld be endured only amid a furore the decenes of tho night and day are unexampled thousands aro fleeing the town and country and thousands more have poured in there is a feeling of wild uncertainty and apprehension that amounts to diffraction there ia no food no water no cover foi the cold of the night and the withering lipat of the day the railroad is ported with and ia temporarily inoperative alie townsite tow ia changed aery hour by rival catties as each a temporary dominant no buildings have been started and but few edits have been reared no one knows where the are and every one is just now yielding all else for the clamor for food drink and shelter or nicana of light to complete this tremendous excitement a disastrous wreck occurred just south of town during alie forenoon A freight and passenger train met beadi on and both euginea went into the ditch no one was hurt but the track was blockaded for hours alie sight at guthirie Gut lirie upon which the eun rose this morning was probably beer before witnessed in the history of the world alie majority of people lay upon the ground beitter guarding claims or w hero they had fallen from fatigue from the depot platform they lay as close ag corded wood and in he few tents they crowded in huddled masses As many as could look alie meagre shelter afforded them but cheso quickly came to the limit of capacity beyond which neither tears or bribes could prevail among the thousands stretched upon alie ground were many of quality chono w ho could not bleed bleep and they were legion crouched around in groups swearing or w ing as suited their spirit alie sun fairly leaps out of the prairie and two izoura tho cold had been supplanted with a sahara heat alie wind neing but without any cooling deflect blew a hot atiat scorched alie flesh and filled the air with blinding alkali dust to complete the general misfortune mib fortune tie only barge tent which nag accommodating one ind people fell under the stress of the furnace bilat it could not bo repaired and other tenta could Biar fely bo mounted the climate provoked an insatiable thirst and water was the first supply to fail there is quite a stream hard by ant it is too with alkali to illick A railroad tank eliat takes its supply by a privity pipe from a distance and an elevated paring afforded the only po aiala drinkable water and that is brackish it was attacked by thousands of people until alie railway officials called military protection under pretense eliat they needed alie water to operate alie road the water at five cents a pint thereafter ai did the locomotive engineers from the tanks of engines alie railroad decma to bo completely prostrated and does not delicier the of tho throng and are beginning to claim their victims but alie abick hae neither refuigo nor sympathy the acene in ita countless varied and painful details is simply indescribable here stands a big city out of doors and without supplies only one train left over the crippled road and was crowded bo 5 ond additional space for a bouee on the floor or a sparrow on the roof clione alio could not get on cheered defiantly as the train pulled out and another jut pulled su from alie north atie daily afu correspondent secured a tooting on the pilot of the locomotive to reach arkansas city nearly eighty miles north with this dispatch along the route during the long hours of the laggard ride scores of boomers lagona could be seen forging across the Clie retracing liard the journey aliey had just completed hundreds and probably thousands of them will halt on the strip and try to force a settlement aliey are strapped and desperate and alie government must yield fine pegton now uselessly sequestered or cause great trouble good humor is splendidly maintained in the face of these hardships one boomer hailed from the train as to whither he was bound shouted 1 I am going back to my people everybody of whom inquiries were made on the train declared he was disappointed in the country and would bot put up with suffering for a scant chance of gain THE USUAL PIONEER guthrie is filling up with gamblers thimble and and the shrewdest and most scheming is practiced THE KILLINGS the last night aliat three men ciul been killed settled down today to day to one man killed and the name aal location were given alib luly A cit representative rode over to tho acene about 3 miles west of Gut lirio and found the facts to bo eliat two men had divided equally a disputed claim aal sleeping in the same tent pistols were drawn twice last niklis and today to day in alio town but in each case one parly retired before forcing the trouble some nena of a in die oilier part of the territory was bronchi in by deputy marshal Var nuu fourteen milca west of oklahoma city a man named martin was found by the patrol this morning industriously building a sod house A few yards distant a man lay cliot through tho body and dead martin raid he had left liln family on the lorder and biad ruu lif librea to a claim bo had in he had found it occupied by a boomer alio had lain for days in the lin lipa and in a quarrel bad killed him the dead man could not be alie patrol and mabun buried him without a box or shroud in a shallows shallots sh allots grave on alie phalna general has ordered martins A monog man named compia who biad failed to secure a lot in guthrie filed on a claim about two miles northwest of town this afternoon 10 lo was accompanied by a friend bainn is unknown allm two had scarcely drlich their w lian a man armed with ft from aliu brualdi and ordered them off compia showed the jiin cliot him the breast tho wounded man was dragged into tho timber by his friend and there died in liala an hour the news reached Gut lirio a of twenty men organized and twelve milt north ho refused to and was killed by a volley reference ference Ke tu alie entry books show that liis nimie was probably C ak deemo OF MEN A meet of oklahoma boomers disappointed of securing in tho territory was held in the opera house at arkansas city Kasi this evening there was a very largo and enthuse acetic attendance speeches were denouncing ibe manner la which oklahoma was battled Bitt led it was freely declared hint laro bodies of anpo as united y talon marshals la aler to ret into alie country and M lecter the beet claims and eliat abia was unfair to the la settlers they camo to secure and ais aliey in oklahoma aliey were to have in alint fineu in atkin sas city to naghi pledged themselves to go to to the chero iceo strip and stake off claims and left the to he hat they may alie and fertility of this strip co useless to alio indians and of profit only to cattle longn have been remarked upon heretofore hy tle A ru there beinus nothing unreasonable in opening it at bocc and to do no will aart alie ercal triable eliat now genais inevitable is a pressure of surplus people driven back here tawn Oklahoma and awaiting in the territory alie farst liante to get out that aint lie re lioves tho here bre earnett and dismayed will execute their purpose alie trompa in thia region fortunately anre in command of captain jack iiames an old frontiersman and u cool and discreet alere is nevertheless boing to he areat turmoil in the atri tho at ington at one intervenes |
