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tender was turned around and pushed
to the engine and coupled up and a
coal car attached. Some six or eight
Confederate soldiers volunteered in the
chase and took passage in the coal car.
From Etowah to Kingston, Capt. Ful
ler ran at the rate of
SIXTY MILES PER HOUR
and found the fugitives had passed by.
A large number of freight trains had
pulled by the station so as to let the
fugitives out at the further end of the
track. The agent informed Captain
Fuller that the leader of the fugitives
claimed to be a Confederate officer who
had impressed the train at Big Shanty,
and the three cars were loaded with
fixed ammunition for General Beaure
gard at Corinth. Captain Fuller, he
said, was behind with the regular pas
senger train. He insisted that the
agent should let him have a switch key
and instruct the conductors of the
down trains to pull by and get out
of his way, as it was important for him
to go on to Chattanooga and Corinth
as rapidly as possible.
So authoritative was he in his de
mand, and so plausible in speech, that
the agent, a patriotic man, believing
his story, carried out his request, and
so the fugitives, by the finesse of their
leader, passed by one great obstruction.
The freight trains were gathered here,
and so heavy to move, that had Cap
tain Fuller stopped to get them out of
his way to pass, his delay would have
been too long. Finding he could not
pass with old Yonah, he abandoned it.
The Home engine was on the Y, head
ed for Chattanooga, with one car at
tached. lie immediately took posses
sion of it and continued the chase with
all who would volunteer to go with
him. lie had not proceeded far be
fore he found cross-ties on the track
every 200 or 300 yards.
After passing Kingston the fugitives
punched out the end of the rear car
which enabled them to drop out ties
without slacking up. Captain Fuller
was forced to lose time in stopping to
remove these obstructions. Laboring
under these disadvantages the pursuers
redoubled their energy and proceeded
to Adairsville. When he reached a
point four miles from Adairsville he
found sixty yards of track torn up, and
SET OUT ON FOOT,
calling on his men to follow. When
he had gone half a mile, he looked back
and saw none but Anthony Murphy
following him. He made two miles
as
QUICK AS HE COULD RUN,
and met the express freight. Having
a gun and knowing the signal, the en
gineer recognized Capt. Fuller and
stopped the train immediately. Know
ing that Mr. Murphy was only a short
distance behind, the train was detained
until he came up. He then took a
position at the rear end of the train,
twenty car lengths from the engine,
and
ST AI IT ED 1> AC K WARD
in the direction of Adairsville, without
taking time to explain matters to the
engineer or conductor.
When he got within 200 yards of
the switch at Adairsville, Capt. Fuller
jumped oil the train, ran ahead and
changed the switch, so as to throw the
ears on the side track. He accom
plished this, changed the switch to the
main track, and jumped on the engine
which had been uncoupled from the
train. This feat was accomplished so
quickly that the train and engine
RAN SIDE BY SIDE
for fully 300 yards. He now hadotily*
the engine with the following crew:
A. Murphy ; Peter Bracken, the en
gineer : Fleming Cox, the fireman, and
Alonzo Martin, wood passer. re-
sumed the chase, making Calhoun, 10
miles distant in 12 minutes. As he
approached Calhoun, Capt. Fuller re
cognized the telegraph operator from
Dalton, a lad twelve years old. The
operator recognized Capt. Fuller, and
as the engine passed by at the rate of
FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR,
grasped Capt. Fuller’s hand, held out
to him, and was safely landed on the
engine. The operator having discov
ered that the wire had been cut, made
his way down to Calhoun, looking for
the break.
As they sped along rapidly as an en
gine, with five foot ten inch wheels,
going backward, and 165 pounds of
steam, could possibly run, he then
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wrote out the following telegram to
Gen. Leadbetter, then in command at
Chattanooga:
“My train was captured this A. m. ■
at Big Shanty, evidently by Feder
al soldiers in disguise. They are mak
ing rapidly for Chattanooga, possibly
with an idea of burning the railroad
bridges in their rear. If Ido not cap
ture them in the meantime, see that
they do not pass Chattanooga.”
Capt. Fuller’s- desire now-Mas to
reach Dalton and send the telegram
before the fugitives could cut the wire
beyond Dalton.
Two miles beyond Calhoun,
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
THE FUGITIVES WERE SIGHTED FOR THE
FIRST TIME,
and from their movements they were
evidently greatly excited; they de
tached one of their freight cars and
left it at the point where they were dis
covered. They had partially taken
up a rail, but that or the car did not
detain Capt. Fuller. He coupled the
car to the engine without stopping,
got on top of the freight car and gave
signals to the engineer by which he
could run; as the car in front obscured
his view. Two and a half miles farth
er Capt. Fuller came across another
freight car which the fugitives had de
tached.
As before he coupled this on with-
out stopping, and pushed on to R -
saca, where he switched the two cars
off on the siding. Again he started
out with an engine only. Two miles
north of Resaca, while standing on the
rear end of the tender, he discovered
in a short curve a F rail diagonally
ACROSS THE TRACK
and being too close to stop, the engine
went over it at the rate of 55 milesper
hour.
Aftertliis, until they reached Dal
ton, only occasionally were obstructions
met with.
At Dalton he dropped the telegraph
operator with instructions to put
through the telegram at all hazards,
and continued the chase. Two miles
beyond he overtook the fugitives
TEARING UP THE TRACK,
in plain view of Col. Jesse A. Glenn’s
regiment camped near by. They cut
the telegraph wire just after the Dal
ton operator had flashed Capt. Ful
ler’s telegram over it, preventing him
receiving the usual acknowledgement
of ‘O. K.’ from Chattanooga.
The fugitives resumed their flight,
and never perhaps did two engines with
five feet ten inch wheels make faster
time than the pursued and the pursuer.
The fugitives had the advantage in the
fact that the ‘General’ a ‘Rogers’ was
headed for Chattanooga, while the
‘Texas,’ a ‘Danforth A Cook’ eng’ne
was running backwards. The tifu < n
miles to Rinegold and three miles b -
yond was made in less time than Capt.
Fuller ever made the same distance in
twenty-two years’ experience as a c<>ii
ductor. Halfway between Ringgod
and Graysville he got within one quar
ter of a mile of the fugitives, who, b<-
ing so closely pressed, set their only re
maining
FREIGHT CAR ON FIRE
with a view of cutting it loose on the
next bridge. The smoke of the ‘Gen
eral’ plainly evidenced that she was
fagging. The fugitives abandoned the