Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09
ADYNAMITE PLOT.
That's What the Denver and Rio Grande
Robbery Was-A Desperate Scheme.
Express Car to Have Been Blown Up with Dy-
Mantle Cartridges-The Approach OF the
East Bound Stopped 1t.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
DENVER, Col. Aug. S.-Further par
ticulars from the scene of the train rob-
berry on the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road between Thompson's Springs and
Crescent, Utah, last Tuesday evening,
would indicate that the scheme of the
highwaymen was one of the most des-
perate ever conceived, and had it not
been for trifing incident wholesale
murder would undoubtedly have been
committed. The story of Express Mes
senger Willis, given to General Manager
G. W. Cramer of the Denver and Rio
Graude express company, is to the effect
that the robbers were armed with no less
than a half dozen
DYNAMITE CARTRIDGES
with which it was their intention and
threat to blow up the train unless the
company's safes, which contained a
large sum of money and other valuables,
were opened for them. When the out
laws learned that they could not effect
an entrance to the car consultation
was held. Three of them were for using
the dynamite and argued that the
original plan of blowing up the train be
carried out TO the letter unless the mes
senger should surrender the company
property, but the fourth, who appeared
to be the leader and spokesman, objected
and his objection prevailed when he
tpointed to
LOCOMOTIVE IS HEADLIGHT
plainly visible short distance
ahead of them. 1t was the
east bound express on the
side track at Crescent waiting for the be-
sIeged to pass. 1t should have passed
the west-bound tram at Thompson S
Springs some twenty minutes previously,
but, being delayed, was ordered to lay
at Crescent siding, two miles beyond
where the robbery occurred. 1t was this
little incident, together with the warning
of the fireman who was standing by that
unless they accomplished their work
soon, the east-bound train would be apt
to come down to see what was up, to-
gether with the advice of their leader,
that caused them
TO ABANDON THEIR PLAN.
After they rode away after plundering
the passengers, one of the robbers threw
back one of the dynamite cartridges
as q parting salute, but it failed to eX-
plode and was picked up by the fireman
who now holds it as trophy. He thinks
that the buckskin pouch from which 1t
was taken must have contained at least
half a dozen of these missiles. 1t is be-
lied these robbers are the same men who
a month ago robbed the Tulluride bank
of about forty thousand dollars in broad
daylight and skipped to the. mountain near
Green river Large rewards have been
offered by the express company and rail-
road, and every effort will be made to
effect their capture.
POSSES ARE IN PURSUIT.
DENVER, COL. Aug. $40 trace has
vet been found Of the Thompson s
Springs, Utah, train robbers. Both the
Rio Grande railway and express company
will offer large rewards for the capture
sgfzthe outlaws, and several organized
posses have left Grand Junction and
Green River IN pursuit. It is the opinion
of officers that the robbers are the same
gang who some months ago successfullIsG
held up the Tulluride, Col s,Raskella4
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