Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-22

Daring Deed of Two Masked Men on the
Southern Pacific.
TULARE. January 2lst.-The south-bound
passenger train was stopped this morning
By two masked men seven miles north CT
Tulare. The robbers climbed over the
baggage-csr to the engine and ordered the
engineer to stop the train, which he did.
The men then compelled the engineer and
fireman to 20 with them and order the ex-
press messenger to open the door.
The robbers made the engineer and fire.
man accompany them several hundred
wards from the train. A tramp who was
stealing a ride was seen by the robbers
while crawling out, and mistsking him for
q trainman they shot him in the head.
The wounded man was brought to this
city. he is now unconscious, but may re-
cover. The brakeman started forward TO
see what was the matter, but ran back
when ordered by the robbers. There is no
trace yet of the men.
Engineer S. II. Depue says that the first
he saw of the men they we're coming down
over the tender. Both had shoiguns fast
ened to straps over their Decks aud Shout
deTs, so thev could be used handily. The
men ordered the engineer to stop at the
crossing of the road from YisalIa to Han
ford, which lie did. The men were very
cool and determined. When the engineer
asked the express messenger TO open the
door the robbers held the trainmen between
them and the car, so the messenger could
not shoot.
The messenger not making sufficient
haste. one Of tbs robbers began counting,
which caused The engineer to call out to
the messenger to harry up. as the man was
going to kill them. One OF the men rl1ed
the express. while the other stood guard.
The robbers compelled the fireman, G.
W. Lovei0y, 10 carry a sack of the booty
down the railroad rack, after forcing him
to put out the headlight Of the locomotive.
The amount .aken is reported to be S25,-
600. The ofdcers are securing the country.
VIsALIA, January 2ist-ShoTtly before
daybreak this morning the soUth-bound
Southern Pacific train was boarded and
robbed between Goshen and Tulare. Ru
MOI SAYS there were ten in the gang. A
few minutes afterward the Sheriff dis
patched six men from here armed and
mounted
GOSHEN, January 21st-Train 10 was
robbed By two men two miles south of
Goshen at A. NJ. One man was fatally
wounded. One of the robbers is about six
feet high and will weigh about $50 pounds.
lie were dark sloGch hat, brown duck
coat aud very dirty overalis and shoes.
The overalls were old and brown. The
hair of this robber wss dark. The other
robher is about feet inches in hight,
weighed about $50 pounds, wore q dark
SLOUGH hat and very dirty blue overalls and
shoes. His hands we're not tanned. The
two were armed with one shotgun and
rubber handled revolvers.
They fatally wounded one man in the
head with buckshot. They got all the
plumber they could carry on their backs. a
suitable reward for arrest or information is
issued.
SAN FRAEc1sco, January 2lst-At the
office Of Wells, Fargo & Co. this morning,
ard also al the railroad Offices, very little,
il anything, was known regarding the rob-
bsry, save what was contained in the press
dispatches. Il was learned that train 10
carried the United States mails, they hay.
ing been shipped over the Southern route
for the past three days, owing TO the heavy
snow-storms in the Sierras. The statement
was also made at the railroad offices that
the train was stopped at KiDgsbErg, TWEEN
ty-three miles north of Tulare.
Superintendent Flint of the Railway
Mail Service received brief dispatch from
Clerk McManus, which stated that the
mail car was not touched.
TRACKING TIE ROBBERS.
ISALIA, JhuLAfy Zlsl.-IQe tram ROD
berry is the sole topic of conversation. 1t
seems tina; the two robbers boarded the
train at Goshen and stopped it two miles
south by intimidsting me engineer and
fireman, securing about $500 from the
express messenger. They forced him. the
engineer and fireman to carry the money
for them nearly a mile down the track,
then dismissed them and struck east into
the fields.
To-day the robbers were tracked about
three miles across the field into the road
The hitching place Of the horses was found.
One horse is gray. the other a sorrel. The
print Of the money bag vas also discovered.
The officers are still after them.
TRACKED TO a SWAMP.
TULARE, January 21st.-Special officer
j. F. Bachelor with posse is on the trail
of the robbers. They tracked them to
swamp on Mil creek, where they lost the
trail, but they are still hunting. Other
officers are out in different directions