The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-12-19


tor on the line. slowly and distinctly
wrote these words, still sobbing violent
ly:
Who hears this for --heaven's
sake-report- to-train-dispatcher at
Larsnnie-quick- that-I-am-in-- the
hands-of -several-robbers- who-will
compel-me-to- flag No. - A. send
help-quick.'
"Then signed name and office call.
81 released the armature and the in
strument clicked OUT
" 'Brace-up - little - girl Il = hear
you. H.
Ii, was the train dispatcher's call.
With fierce shout the leader sprang for
ward and rudely snatched me away from
the table, and asked;
Gal, what's that?'
4" Only distant office asking for or.
ders for freight train responded.
" None o. your lynn, you little imp.
he roared. yer up to some trick!'
No. replied, Il am not. II was
doing that my fingers would be on the
instrument. Don't you see l am not
touching it, and yet it works. 1t is only
an order to freight train away down at
Medicine Bow
"Oh, how eagerly my ears drank in
every word the instrument clicked out.
| heard a telegram to the sheriff at Green
River, 20 miles west, asking him to arm
posse OF men at once and get on board a
special train which would be ready for
him.
~ heard the Green River operator call
the dispatcher and say:
The superintendent with sheriff and
twenty armed men aboard aud train ready
for orders.
'The order came flying. 1t told the
engineer he had clear track and to run
at his very highest speed to within half
mile OF my station, and with his party to
alight. Then came the welcome report
from the Green River office:
oPSNiot CdSb uCPaitSu 10.
"Oh, how my poor heart beat, and how
my every nerve tingled with excitement.
l:l5, mentally figured that the train on
such a desperate Grand should make
nearly mile minute and reach the
stopping point about / :35.
''The robber chief gave his men their
inctructions I uoo ~ ha aa,t ort aloro
to signal the train, and when it halted
the band would make rush and board it.
Bill, you jump on the engine as soon
as she stops, and hold the engineer and
firemen under your gun. Jack, you pile
into the mail car and make the clerk
give up his registered letters, an Yank
an Aleck II work the express car while
Tom an Shorty hold the conductor and
brakeman back. Do yer work quick an
bold, an don't be Altered to burn powder
II necessary. Tbar's big haul on that
train, and we've got to have it,
"How eagerly watched the clock and
how slowly, how very slowly the hands
seemed to move. One twenty-one, one
twenty-five and one thirty.five were click.
ed off. One thirty-fvel Would they
never come?
"The men sat on the bench on the west
side of the room facing the two windows
on the east. tried to figure how long
1t would require for the men to walk to
the depot from the stopping place. Per
haps even then they were surrounding
the station and might hear knock at
the door any instant. Would there be a
fight? Oh, horrible thought! In a few
minutes l might see men shot down be-
fore my face, and might myself be kill
ed. | almost tainted with fright. The
blood seemed to freeze in my veins, and
| grasped the chair or would have fall
len to the floor. One forty There came
a fearful crash of glass and the black
muzzles Of perfect cloud of rifles were
thrust through the windows and pointed
directly at the robbers. Then a voice
called out:
Men throw up your hands | am
the sheriff and 10 the name of the law de-
mand your surrender. Make but move
and I'll order my men to firen
Yer little catp Kissed the leader,
glazing at me savagely as the band sud
denly held aloit their hands. Then the
sheriff and three men entered and dis.
armed and handcuffed the robbers, and !
saw the superintendent look ut me and
heard him say: What debt | owe you,
my brave girl, and then tell fainting
into his arms.
when / regained consciousness was
lying in my bed in nv room at Green
River, with several ladies around me.
and was told that seven days had elapsed
since the capture Of the robbers. / was
suffering from brain fever, brought on by
the terrible strain had passed through,
and had been unconscious for that long
period. For many days thereafter how
cred on the borders between life vnd
death, and the superintendent was at
my bedside several times every day,
cheering me up with words Of encourage
ment and doing all in his power to allevi-
ate my suffering
II finally recovered, and when called
into court to testify against the desperate
gang ! will never forget their fierce
glances toward me as told how | had
entrapped them or how. in spite OF the