Chicago (IL) Tribune, "Escape of Fugitives," January 21, 1856

                                 Escape of Fugitives.

   A paper published in the town of Frederick, Maryland, called the Examiner, gives a description of a late stampede of slaves from that vicinity. It appears that six of them--four men and two women--having two spring wagons and four horses, came to Hood's Mill, on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near the dividing line between Frederick and Carroll counties, on Christmas day. After feeding their animals, one of them told a Mr. Dixon whence they came; believing them to be fugitives, he spread the alarm, and some eight or ten persons gathered round to arrest them; but the negroes, drawing revolvers and bowie-knives, kept their assailants at bag [bay], until five of the party succeeded in escaping in one of the wagons, and as the last one jumped on a horse to flee, he was fired at first and the load took effect in the small of the back. After going a few rods, he reeled and fell to the ground, when he was pounced upon and secured. How he was used by his captors, we know not; but humanity shudders at the probable result.