Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-10-27
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Deadwood CDak. dispatch: About
o'clock this morning bold attempt wa
made by masked bandits to wreck an
rob the east Pierre & Black Hills rail
road train, owned and operated by tn
Homestake Mining company, at Reno
gulch, nine miles from Lead City. Th
train left Lead City half an hour lat
with the paymaster, w. A. Reemer, sup
piled with about SEQ, 900 to pay off til,
timber employees. Chief Engineer Dicl
Blackstone and passengers and EN-
pleyes, amounting to about twenty PEG
pie, were on board They ran at in
creased speed to make up lost time to {
point about 100 yards from the scene Of
attack, where they slowed up to lei
| some section men off This alone pre-
vented great calamity, for before the
train got fully under way the engine
slipped from the rail that had been re-
moved few inches by the robbers and
the train derailed.
During the excitement of the moment
a command of Hands mp" came from
the robbers, accompanied by a yolley
cab, flat ears and engine without any
serious results. W. A. Reemer, who
was on the engine, discharged both bar
rels of his shotgun loaded with buck
shot Mt two of the robbers, who fell NOR
tally wounded. The others fled to
where their horses were tied, mounted
and disappeared in the underbrush.
One of the wounded robbers was cap
tured and is now in the Deadwood Jail
and will probably die before morning.
His name is Billy Wilson and he is an
indicted horse thief from Pennington
county for whom the sheriff has been
hunting with warrant for the past two
or three months. He saws the other
two are named Clark and johnson.
The latter was the leader. The sheriff
and a posse of homestake employees are
securing the vicinity and their capture
is certain. Excitement runs high and
if they are captured lynch law will be
summarily dealt.
Rawlins (Wyo) special: The sensa-
ton of the hour is the work of the grand
jury of the county during the last three
days. They have found twenty-one in
dictments against conductors and brake-
men of the Union Pacific railroad, most
of whom reside in this city. They run
from this place to Green River in charge
of freight trains. They are accused of
burglariZing and robbing these freight
trains of valuable merchandise in transit
between San Francisco and eastern cit
les. The robberies are supposed to
cover period of twelve or ff-
teen months and thousands of dollars
worth of yaluables are missing. Fonr
of the parties are under arrest. and tele-
grams and officers have been dispatched
for the others. Some of the men have
been in the employ of the road for
years. The affair was disclosed through
the treachery of one of the guilty par
ties, and it is supposed immunity has
been offered him. in order to get his
confession. The four under arrest are
named Matthews, Pillsbury, Kennedy
and Dillon. The names OF the others
are withheld SO as not to defeat the
operations of the officers, Liquors, to-
baccos, merchandise, groceries and
everything that could be readily dis
posed of was taken. Suspicion points
strongly to two or three prominent bus
mess men as the receivers of the stolen
goods, but nothing definite can be
ascertained until the prosecutions begin
in open court. II is thought that an
exists for criminal pur-
poses and that those now under indict-
ment are but fraction of the larger
whole, who will Eventually be discov-
cred.