Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1891 — “THE WORLD IS MINE.” [ARTICLE]

“THE WORLD IS MINE.”

Three Thousand Excited Men and Women Charged on the Site of Chandler. Ml Raced Madly for the Coart House Square, and When the Line* Came Together Many Were Trampled CnderFoot and Killed. The couriers who arrived at Guthrie, O. T„ on the 29th, give the following particulars and horrible details which attended '.he opening of the government town site of Chandler, in the Sac and Fox reservation. The town site was opened to settlement at 12 o’clock on. the 28th, and the scene which followed tho volley of musketry which announced tho hour of opening beggars description. Amass of 3,000 excited men and women, intent upon securing slot, had : gathered a boa tthe boundary of the town. Some were on horses and broncos, and others on foot, stripped of all superfluous clothing, each carrying a sharpened stick, with name and notice of lot taken thereon. All were strung to the highest pitch of excitement. At 12 o'clock sharp the signal was given, and with a mighty yell from 3,030 throats, and amid the cracking of whips and volleys of oaths, shouts and curses, a conglomerate nifiss of men and women on horse and foot rushed like maniacs for th® lots. They clambered up the steep cliff like soldiers charging a fortress. The line was one mile long on each side and half a mile long on each end. The rush was toward lot 48, which was reserved fora court-house. At the angles of the advancing lines met many riders were unhorsed and hurled to pell-mell in the mud. Many persons are reported killed and others as having received severe injuries,. Miss Daisy, a representative of tho Guthrie News, was thrown from her hofse at the beginning of the race, and, striking her head on a rock, was killed. The excited and merciless crowd bad no time to attend the dying, and rode over the body of the unfortunate woman, until it was recognized by a friend, who took it out of the urging mass of humanity. As there were three or four times as many people as there were lots, the result eon Id easily be foretold. There are from three to six claimants for a great many of tho good lots. On every hand can be heard curses apd high-worded discussions. It will take considerable time to adjust these differences. An Indian killed a white man over a quarrel in one of the tents where liquor was being sold.