Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — HOGAN’S ARMY PRISONERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOGAN’S ARMY PRISONERS.

Over Three Hundred Men Reach Helena in Charge of Soldiers. Hogan’s armv, numbering 330 men, arrived in Helena, Mont., Monday on a special train in charge of soldiers

from Fort Keogh. The prisoners were taken to the fair grounds, two miles from the •city, and went into camp under military guard. Hogan's is the Northwestern division of Coxey’s Commonweal Army, which seized a train on the Northern Pacific Railway at Butte, Mont. Col. Swaine, who is in command of the Department of Dakota in the absence in Europe of Geu. Mer-

ritt, was instructed by telegraph from Washington to use the United States troops to intercept the army and restore the railroad’s property. Acting on his instructions,Col. Swaine ordered Col. Page, of Fort Keogh, to secure a special train and capture the trainstealing contingent. He came upon

the army at Forsyth, wheie. after some resistance, the Coxey followers were made prisoners and as such have been taken to Fort Keogh.

GEN. HOGAN.

HOGAN IN CAMP AT FORT KEOGH.