Show exchange of shots and then the desperado disappears in the dark bloodhounds once more on the kraii has been seen I 1 seattle july 11 sheriff cuddihee and guard carson with and a small posse left auburn at C this morning for the place where tracy vaa last seen seattle july 11 A special to the times from wash says 1 A man answering the description of men ill gracya partner in the salem outbreak has appeared abc the man held up a family two miles east of that place for dinner and later returned to the home and procured a supply of provisions carried revolvers had two front leeth out and in other ways closely resembled merrill it is considered probable pio bable that tracy and marrill have a more or less well understood plan of action seattle july 11 not a word of tracys movements pince last night has acen received here today the posse and newspaper men arc now out of reach of the lines of communication and the next dispatch received from the scene of action will contain the news 0 f battle or escape rumor were afloat this morning that tracy had teen surrounded at a railroad bridge between covington and auburn and a little later the sheriffs office received word that shots had been exchanged between a deputy and alie convict Ta coina july 11 at 8 this morning sheriff and numerous posses arrived at covington about 12 miles from tacoma where tracy eluded the posse at midnight evera train goings toward the northern pacific tunnel through the cascades is stopped and searched the location of the country is such that tracy may be said to be naturally cornered in the point of a triangle and therefore developments arc momentarily expected all indications are that tracy is following the palmer railroad cutoff cut off up the mountains keeping in the timber a hundred feet or so from the railroad tracks if he started at daylight he now has five hours start of the posse following with the hounds at 1145 a m tracys trail was picked up leading from covington toward lake covington july 11 1213 p m jhc thc gospe in charge of ex sheriff jim wooley with sheriff has just arrived here the train was a mile west of the station and the three hounds liberated to make the attempt af picking up the scent from where anc battle last night occurred the dogs soon got the scent and within half an hour afterwards were a mil up the railroad track in the direction of palmer the ground is exceedingly dry and the ghent ia at least nine old the hunt will proceed east covington wash july ai p in dave morgan a young rancher has just ridden in with the information that tracy was seen at 10 this morning at the forks road two and a half miles north of here sheriff and posses arc leading leai ing the country is exceedingly cee rough seattle wash july 11 A special from auburn wash timed a m says t sheriff received the startling intelligence mat members of the posse exchanged shots with tracy a few miles vest of at the dispatch sent by J A bunce states that ane convict was chased into the brush at a point between covington and a mile west of gnei e an urgent request is made that the hounds be sent to the spot at once this shows that tracy baffled in his attempt to board the freight train a working towards Corin gliOn probably with the intention of trying to board the next train at p point sphere the grade ia steeper it is regarded as likely that finding hl pathway barri cadee he mav try to baick track toward auburn or kent cormer chief of police and deputy sheriff Ur cuer of elyett hav been added to the lorac covering fhe region between lacre tand the river bridge the bloodhounds will be sent toward clington Co ington before daybreak in that little time as may be lost in lacing ahrn on atie buclaw convicts trail the opinion that tracy has now placed himself in a death trap from which nothing but his wonderful luck can release him tacoma wash july 11 A special to the ledger arom covington wash early this morning says i tracy ha performer again and has slipped alko a phantom through the cordon of guards atthe mouth of creek fought n battle with deputies a mile west wi ceic and escaped into the timber in the fight in no one was hurt though when the outlaw fired twice at T E crowe he was so close that the deputy could feel the burning powder as it was blown from the gun y when darkness came tracy wa thought to be securely penned on the J point of the western bluff where he had lain concealed all morning though the guards etere strung thickly one being posted every fifty feet he i fully eluded them and traveled up the roadbed of the palmer cutoff cut off toward covington five miles distant at 1145 last night tracy arrived at the saw mill plant of the covington lumber company a mile from this place deputy sheriffs J A bunce fred C bunco calvin and had been sent to guard this point deputies crome and the father fa ther and son had posted themselves on the railroad near the saw mill at the entrance of the big cut through a diio of the ground bances being the outer guard line they were hardly settled when they heard footsteps approaching from the auburn side but remained duiet until the unknown had almost come of them when the challenge to halt was given jiejin JIe JIo responded the stranger what is your name demanded J A bunce my name is andersen As lie gave this reply tracy for it was he started to run the deputies again called upon him to halabut halt but hel kept going and they opened fire shooting four times each tracy ran up tha track and a few yarda further encountered deputy sheriff crowe who goes theral challenged the officer A deputy coolly responded the out law crowe thinking it was the elder bunce started to approach when tracy commenced shooting at cloe range firing two shots the bullets whistled harmlessly by but crobo suffered ly from the burning powder as it from alie muzzle of the bitle after shooting tracy turned and bruset along the side of the track where y ho was lost in the blackness of the night the deputies made hurried circle i through the to covington to head oaf tracy but on their arrival that he had passed the station v A dispatch a m adds that since his escape north of creek tracy has attempted to board one of the eastbound east bound freight trains the grade is heavy at this point but the train was running light and at such speed that oraey was unable to board it another train passed and the con reports that while running near the saw mill some one called for him tt stop As there are no deputies there at present it is thought tracy n the man who called and the opinion is ad danced eliat he may have been wounded in the battle just before midnight A man thought to be merrill appeared yesterday at the home of a farmer few miles east of near here and wanted food lie renu ined in jhc thc vicinity all dy |