Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-14
PACIFIC COAST.
BLOODY WORK BY ARIZONA TRAIN
ROBBERS.
Several of the Bandits Captured
Outrage by Picnic Hoodlums
-Trappers' Hardships.
PACIFIC COAST.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-us1oN.l
BORDER BANDITS.
bUhDER BANDITS.
Robbery of a Railroad Train In Sonora
Trainmen Shot

Robbery of a Railroad Train in Sonora
Trainmen Shot
| GUAYMAs (Mex.), May 12th.-At 10
! O'Clock last night, the Sonora Railroad
| train, No. l, coming south, was stopped at
| Aqua Zarica, flag station twelve miles
from Nogales, by four masked Mexicans.
! who boarded the train, two at the engine
| and two at the baggage-car, after firing
| their guns.
Fireman John Forbes was instantly
! killed and conductor Louis Atkinson re-
| ceived shot in the abdomen. Express
| messenger Isaac Hay was shot in the head
and another ball passed through his body
| below the right shoulder blade Ex-con-
| ductor French was shot in the right
breast.
The robbers took the key of the safe
| from messenger Hay, but, not being able
to open the latter, carried it off, 1t was
afterwards found about 100 yards from the
scene of the robbery rif1ed of its contents.
which amounted to $130 in Mexican silver.
BACK TO NoGALEs
The train returned to Nogales as fast as
| possible, where Atkinson and French were
taken to the International Hotel, and
| Hay to his room.
Doctors Figueroa, Purdy and Frigoso at
tended the wounded men. Atkinson died
| at o'clock in the morning. Hopes are en-
tertained of the recovery of Hay and
French.
PURSUIT OF THE RAscALs.
The authorities at Nogales and Magda-
| lena were notified. An armed force LETT
Nogales Immediately in pursuit of the rob-
bers. Another left Magdalena at 3:10 o clock
| in the morning, on train No. .. for Aqua
Zarica, to take the trail there. The best of
l Indian trailprS rlilac in ol-
| vance OF the police securing the hills.
Two bad characters, Refugio Campillo
and Nicano Lopez, were arrested at Nogales
on suspicion of being connected with the
| gang. The Sonora Railroad Company Of
fers 81 900 for the capture Of the robbers.
WILL BE EXECUTED IF SHOT.
On receipt of the news General Diego NJ.
| Guerra, chief of this military zone, hastened
to offer his services to General Superintend-
| ent Richards stating that if the robbers
were caught in Sonora they will be in
stantly executed, without trial, as an ex-
ample for future ev;l-doers.
A PROBABLE CLUE TO ONE.
! A white man named j. J. Taylor, sup
posed to be "rustler" from New Mexico,
was also arrested. a hat said to belong to
Taylor was found near thescene of the rob-
! berry. Taylor claims he can account for its
appearance there, but suspicion points to
him strongly as being concerned in the rob-
berry and murder.
| MEXICAN OFFICIALS AROUSED.
| GUAYMAs, May 13th.-GoveInor Corral of
Sonora and General Manager Richards of
| the Sonora Railway have requested the
| Governor of Arizona to allow the Mexicans
posses to follow the train-robbers' trail into
American territory. General Guerra left
| for Nogales to-day, ready to pursue the
robbers with cavalry. The Federal Gov
| ernment has wired Sonora officials to spare
| no money, and TO work hard to capture the
criminals.
EXPRESS DETECTIVES JOIN THE PURsCERs.
SAN Francisco, May 13th-Promptly on
| the receipt of the news of the Sonora train
robbery by j. B. Hume. the detective of
the express company, John n. Thacker,
| one of The detectives of the company, who
left this city on train 10 last evening for
! Chihuahua, was ordered to proceed to the
| scene. R. H. Paul, special officer of the
Southern Pacific Railroad at Tucson, A. T.,
who. with Nick Pierce of chihuahua. re-
Gently cleaned up the three STEMS Pass
| train-robbers so handsomely, has been re-
quested by wire to go to Aqua Zarica 1t
| is expected that the chase of the robbers
aud murdererS will be hot one, with the
| advantage on the part of the officers of the
law