The band of robbers fill their heavy leather bags with as much as they can carry, robbing the bank of its railroad payroll. Other lookouts stationed out on the street also notice the trap that is set for them. In the climax to the spectacular opening sequence, Pike decides to make their break from the bank and use the oncoming temperance union marchers to their advantage as shields and cover. The senior bank clerk is kicked out into the street, a small diversion which triggers orgiastic, destructive gunfire from all directions. Both sides appear to ignore the endangerment that they arbitrarily cause.
Bullet wounds spray gushing blood and chunks of flesh, and bodies writhe in agony and pain.
One of the memorable images is the sight of one of the escaping riders being shot from his horse, and cascading through a store-front, glass window of a dress shop. The yellow-raincoated gang member smashes through the glass, rolling into three dress mannequins. Outside during the gun battle, Pike looks up and recognizes Deke Thornton. Both of them aim and shoot, but hit other targets nearby. In the getaway, a townswoman is trampled under a horse's hooves, and one of the gang is shot and dragged by his horse, losing his saddlebags.