. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . e after our track hadpassed Plum Creek, 200 miles w^est of the Missouri River. TheIndians had captured a freight train and were in possessionof it and its crews. It so happened that I was coming downfrom the front with my car, which was a traveling Plum Creek station word came of this capture and stoppedus. On my train were perhaps twenty men. some a portion ofthe crew, some who had been discharged and sought passageto the rear. Nearly all were strangers to me. The excitementof the capture and the rep
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . e after our track hadpassed Plum Creek, 200 miles w^est of the Missouri River. TheIndians had captured a freight train and were in possessionof it and its crews. It so happened that I was coming downfrom the front with my car, which was a traveling Plum Creek station word came of this capture and stoppedus. On my train were perhaps twenty men. some a portion ofthe crew, some who had been discharged and sought passageto the rear. Nearly all were strangers to me. The excitementof the capture and the reports coming by telegraph of theburning of the train, brought all men to the platform, andwhen I called upon them to fall in. to go forward and retakethe train, every man on the train went into line, and by hisposition showed that he was a soldier. We ran down slowlyuntil we came in sight of the train. I gave the order to deployas skirmishers, and at the command they went forward assteadily and in as good order as we had seen the old soldiersclimb the face of Kenesaw under S. B. REEDSuperintendent of Construction, Union Iafific Kailway HOW WE BUILT THE UNION PACIFIC 37 Nearly all the engineers and chiefs of the different unitsof the construction of the line have risen to distinction in theirprofession since the road was built. The chiefs of the partieswere S. B. Reed, F. M. Case, James A. Evans, Percy T. Brown,L. L. Hills (the two latter killed by the Indians), J. E. House,M. F. Hurd, Thomas H. Bates, F. C. Hodges, James R. Maxwell,John ONeil, Francis E. Appleton, Colonel J. 0. Hudnut, J. , Mr. Morris and Jacob Blickensderfer. Our principal geologist was David Van Lenuep, whosereports upon the geology of the country from the MissouriRiver to the Pacific have been remarkably verified in later andmore detailed examinations. The superintendents of construction were S. B. Reed andJames A. Evans, both of whom had been connected with theroad since 1864. They had indepen
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