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Show One Trial Was KnSugb. "When the Kansas Pacific was first opened," said B. W. Veddar, a locomotive loco-motive engineer, "the Indians wero very hostile and there was constant fear that they would wreck the trains. That they did uot is due to their ignorance igno-rance of the irou horse and of the best methods of destroying it. "One of my firemen bad an experience expe-rience with the Chcyeunes that he will never forget. He was on the road near Fort Wallace when he saw that the Indians hail cut the telegraph wire and knew that he might look out for squalls. They wero never satisfied with simply cutting the wire, but chopped it into inch pieces with their tomahawks to effectually stop the mysterious mys-terious messages. As the train came near a large patch of sunflowers which grew on both sides of tho track over 100 Indians rose up, stretched a strong rope across the track, braced themselves, them-selves, and prepared to receivo tha shock of tho locomotive. As was afterward aft-erward learned, they had taken rawhide raw-hide strips, braided them together, and, with n force of fifty at each end of the rope, thought that they would be able to stop the train. The instant the locomotive struck the rope the air was full of Indians. They were thrown in all directions. Somo were jerked clear across the train and more than a dozen wero killed or seriously injured. This was the last attempt made for years to stop the trains." SL Louis Uiobe-Htmocrat. i . .. |