Transcript

            Exciting Dispatches.

                  ...THIRD DISPATCH

   ...The telegraph wires have been cut from Harper's Ferry, and there is no communication beyond Monocacy. It is reported that there has been a stampede of negroes from Maryland. The train due here early this morning has not yet arrived. Many wild rumors are afloat, but no intelligence of an authentic character has yet been received....

[Editor's Note: The majority of this article has been omitted from our transcription except for the portions directly mentioning the term "slave stampedes" or some variant.]

Citation

"Exciting Dispatches - Third Dispatch," Omaha (NE) Nebraskian, October 29, 1859, p. 1.

Related Escape / Stampede
Location of Stampede
Maryland
Coverage Type
Via Wire Report
Location of Coverage- City
Omaha
Location of Coverage- State
Nebraska
Contains Stampede Term
Yes