St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-20
One Of Them Smashes a Rob-
bep in the Face With a
Lump Of Coal.
Finding Themselves Foiled,
the Robbers Flee--A Big
Reward Offered.
Sioux Indians Start for a Sun
Dance Without the Agents
Permission.

RAWLINs, WyO., Aug. 19.-At 2:35 a..
m. the east-bOund Union Pacific passen-
ger train was attacked by robbers at a
water tank two miles east of Dana sta
ton. Engineer Breeze was oiling his
engine and Fireman Wallen was giving
the engine water from the tank, when
three men rushed up to the front end of
the train and cried out: "Hold up
your handsr" The engineer did
so, and the fireman jumped down
from the tender and was shot as soon as
he struck the ground, in the right arm.
In the meantime constant fire was
kept up on the train by some of the rob-
bers concealed by the darkness and
about fifty yards from the train. The
front brakeman, William Tiilman, when
told to hold up his hands, did so when
the order was repeated: sHigher, your
son of b." He was standing
Oh the steps of the engine at
the time, and as he lifted his
hands higher his lantern dropped, when
he was ordered to pick it up again. He
stopped down to do so, and at the same
time grasped lump of coal and
smashed the robber in the face, stagger-
ing him backwards and then jumped on
him. A desperate hand-to-hand con-
filct followed, both men rolling down
the cinder bank into the track ditch,
The brakeman was finally shot in the
arm and through the hip, splintering
the bone. The bullet, a forty-five cali
bre, passed out. When the robbers
found
THEY WE'RE FOILED,
they abandoned the attack and fled.
The passengers were uninjured. A
posse OF men mounted on fleet horses
and we'll armed left Rawlins on special
train for Dana led by Deputy Sheriff
Hanks. They struck the trail of the
robbers mile and half north of the
scene of attack. The camp of the
robbers was found. Their horses were
newly shOd and the trail was
easy to follow. The brakeman's
cap was found 200 yards south of
the tank, dropped there by the robbers
in order to mislead the pursuit. Five
hundred dollars per head for the rob-
bers, dead or alive, is offered by the
Union Pacific company, and $500 by the
governor of Wyoming territory. Eight
men were seen at s o'clock p. IN. cross
ing the Union Pacific track two and
a half miles east of Carbon, or thirty
miles east of where the attack
was made. They were we'll mount
ed and armed, and were heading
south toward North Park, Col. They
have made detour from the north, go
ing east and then south. A posse from
Carbon has started in pursuit. The en-
tire country is aroused. Short work
will be made of the robbers if they are
discovered. They are supposed to be
part of the Teton Basin Jackson gang
of cow-punchers.
THE LATEST DISPATCHES
from the Dana train robbers is that they
are fifteen miles north of the Medicine
Bow river, having crossed the Cotton
wood ford and are heading into the
Shirley basin and the surrounding tim
bered mountains. The Rawlins posse
are twelve miles behind them
and not on the trail, A courier
was sent with this dispatch to Medicine
Bow. There are two robbers leading a
pack-horse. If they get into Shirley ba-
sin their capture will be almost impos-
sible. A reward of $1,000 has been of
fered by the Union Pacific road and the
governor for each of the robbers dead
or alive. The probabilities are if they
are caught they will be either hung or
shot.