Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — BATTLE WITH TRAMPS. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE WITH TRAMPS.

No LiH titan Thirty or Them Take I'c» nation of an E. & T. H. Train. About thirty tramps boarded a northbound freight train on tho Evansville & Terre Haute railroad about 10 o’clock Wednesday night, and when ordered off by tho conductor gavedihn to -understand that it would take a larger force than he could command to “lire” them: Being unable to rid the train of them the conductor telegraphed to Princeton authorities for assistance. On their arrival at Princeton a pitched battle occurred be- ■ tween the trxmps on one side and the railroad crow and the city marshal and deputies on tho other. Sevoral on both sides received severe injuries, but none fatal. As tho train pulled out from Princeton the tramps again attempted to board it, when one of their number fell under the wheels, and his body was ground to pieces. On his person was a card issued by M. T. Williams to C. E. Trostor, of Paducah, Ky., showing him to be a member of tho cigarmakers’ union, and it Is supposed he is the owner of the card. At the death of one of their members the tramps quit the train, and are camping in the woods near by- -