The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-07-06

A Southern Pacific Express Held
Up by Robbers In Oregon
They Pail TO secure Any Plumber In the
Express Car and Proceed To Relieve
Passengers of Their Cash
Escape with BIG sum.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. July 3. The
Southern Pacific overland" north
bound, was stopped Monday night at
1915 by three highwaymen near Rid
dies. about 80 miles south OF Roseburg.
and robbed sticks OF dynamite were
placed on the rails, which disabled the
engine by blowing the fanges of the
pony trucks and brought the train TO a
stop
Taking the fireman, two OF the high
waymcn proceeded TO go through
the train. and every car. from the
cxpress-car 20 the rear Pullman. was
searched. Nothing was obtained from
the express-car. for there was no
treasure on board. In the mail-car bet
ter success was met, and Portland. Ia
coma, Seattle and Victoria, Il. c., reg
istered sacks were rified. Passengers
were also searched pretty thoroughly.
but just what success was met with Is
not known.
One highwayman took hasty shot
at Conductor Kearncy, who was in
charge OF the train, but 40 damage re-
suited
One of tho men was feet IL inches
tall. light complexion, light mus
tache, projecting upper jaw, very
heavy pointed chin, two upper
front teeth projecting and high
check bones. He wore about No. s
shoe with taclSs Ia the bottoms. He
had on blue ovcrails The description
OF the other is that OF man about 5
feet inches in height. but as he kept
in the background definite descrip-
tion could not be had.
superintendent Fields, OF the South
crn Pacific, in an hour after learning
OF the hold-up had two parties on the
way to the scene Of the robbery. A
posse of officers was hastily made up in
Rose burg and started at once, and an
other OF rough-and-ready mountains
GERS started from here. Every effort
viii to made TO capture the robbers.
The men OF the party starting from
here are thoroughly familiar with
every foot Of ground~in the neighbor-
hood of the robbery, and good hopes
are entertained of capturing the rob
bers
The train was delayed several hours
being compelled TO turn the engine
around and back into Roseburg.
A stick of dynamite was found near
the scene of the robbery, also a hat
and a -four sack from Myrtle Creek
mills. IL is thought the robbers got
about $1,000.
The sheriff Is now in hot pursuit and a
joint reward of S., 900 for the capture of
each robber has been offered by Wells
Fargo and the Southern Pacific COM
panies.
The robbers. in going through the
train, passed all who had the appear
ancc of being workingmen, but made
others hold up their hands while they
went through their pockets, the
robbers standing over them with
pistols. The sheriff Of Klamath county
was on board with prisoner The
robbers appropriated the sheriff's
pistol. None OF the ladies in the car
were molested during the time the
train was held up, one hour
and forty-five minutes being con-
sumed. The robbers outside kept
firing sticks Of dynamite to intimi-
date the passengers. After the chief
robbcr had secured his booty he or
dered the engineer To proceed north
for one hour. He then shot out the
headlight and firing five additional
shots, which were signal shots to his
companions, disappeared in the dark
ness.