y to
Kingston.

Arriving there, and learning the adventurers were but twenty
minutes ahead, they left the "Yonah" to blow off, while they
mounted the engine of the Rome Branch Road, which was ready
fired up, and waiting for the arrival of the passenger train
nearly due, when it would have proceeded to Rome. A large
party of gentlemen volunteered for the chase, some at
Acworth, Altoona, Kingston, and other points, taking such
arms as they could lay their hands on at the moment; and
with this fresh engine they set out with all speed, but with
great "care and caution," as they had scarcely time to make
Adairsville, before the down freight train would leave that
point. Sure enough, they discovered, this side of
Adairsville, three rails torn up and other impediments in
the way. They "took up" in time to prevent an accident, but
could proceed with the train no further. This was most
vexatious, and it may have been in some degree
disheartening; but it did not cause the slightest relaxation
of efforts, and, as the result proved, was but little in the
way of the _dead game_, pluck and resolutions of Fuller and
Murphy, who left the engine and again _put out on foot
alone_! After running two miles, they met the down freight
train, one mile out from Adairsville. They immediately
reversed the train, and ran backwards to Adairsville--put
the cars on the siding, and pressed forward, making fine
time to Calhoun, where they met the regular down passenger
train. Here they halted a moment, took on board a telegraph
operator, and a number of men who again volunteered, taking
their guns along--and continued the chase. Mr. Fuller also
took on here a company of track-hands to repair the track as
they went along. A short distance above Calhoun, they
_flushed their game_ on a curve, where they doubtless
supposed themselves out of danger, and were quietly oiling
the engine, taking up the track, &c. Discovering that they
were pursued, they mounted and sped away, throwing out upon
the track as they went along, the heavy cross-ties they had
prepared themselves with. This was done by breaking out the
end of the hindmost box-car, and pitching them out. Thus,
"nip and tuck," they passed with fearful speed Resaca,
Tilton, and on through Dalton.