The record-union., 1896-09-06
ANOTHER OVERLAND TRAIN Held Up.

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| train up another car length or two far
ther and stop. The man on the tender
now ordered Fireman Burns to go with
the other robber and uncouple the ex-
press car.
After they left the engine the robber
VINO was guarding me looked backward
for an instant, which gave me an op-
portunity to get my revolver from box
at my feet in one corner of the cab.
II had to act mighty quick, can tell
you, or I'd have been shot dead. Well,
l got the gun and covered him before he
knew it and shot twice, and he fell from
the gangway to the ground. His pistol
went off as he rolled down the bank.
Il then opened the throttle and pulled
out as fast as possible and brought the
train into Sacramento"
Asked where he hit the robber, IngleS
replied that he thought one shot took
effect in the side of the head and the
other in the shoulder.
WHAT FIREMAN BURNS SAYS.
Patrick Burns, the fireman Of the train,
when asked to give his account of the
hold-up, said:
THE robber that had covered us with
his pistol ordered me, when the train
stopped, to get down on the ground. AS
did so was met by another man, who
told me to go back with him and cut the
train in two.
While on the way back to the express
the robber that was with me asked
What is that?' 1 said he must be try
ing to scare somebody
I'VE then got on the platform of the
express car, which was just in front of
the day coach. There was man stand
ing there already, who had evidently
tried to cut the train apart, as one of
the levers was raised.
''One of them then ordered me to cut
the train in two. / pulled on the lever,
but it was open. He then ordered me
to set up the mandrake. When he
thought it was set up he said: I wonder
they don't stop and I replied, I guess
they're going to pull up a. little farther
He then ordered me to stand in front
Of the door of the coach. The train
was then running along pretty lively.
Somebody in the coach approached
the door at this moment, and the robber
took shot at him. AS he raised his
gun I opened the door of the coach and
threw myself back inside of it.
THAT was the last anybody saw of
the robbers. Whether they jumped off
then, or later, I don't know, but when
we got within mile or SO Of the city I
made an examination o fthe platform,
made an inspection of the platform,
Il don't think" added Burns, that
they staid on the train and came into
the city. 1 believe they jumped off
somewhere along the road"
ONE MAN SEEN.
AS soon as the train was stopped
Conductor Morris started up toward
the front to see what was the trouble,
but as soon as he heard the shooting
he realized what was up. He then sent
Brakeman Eugene Axtell back toward
the station to flag the Oregon express,
which would be due an hour later, as
he did not know but that his train
would be left on the track that long.
Axtell went back. and soon the train
pulled out and left him there. Morris
was very anxious about him until the
Oregon arrived, for fear the two ban
dts might have met and killed him.
Axtell came in on the Oregon express,
however, and to a ''Record-Union'' re-
porter he said the only man he saw
after the overland pulled away was a
youth who came up to him at the
| switch, where he had just tagged the
incoming train.
Just as the Oregon train whistled
for the SWITCH" said he, this young
fellow came up and said there was a
dead man out yonder, and he wanted
to know if I thought the Oregon train
would stop and pick up the body.
Il told him / did not think it would.
He was in his shirt sleeves, and said he
had his blankets out in the bushes;
that the bandits had met him and tried
10 make MIN assist III uucOupllHS the
express car. He said he had encoun-
tered the body Of the dead robber and
was willing to show where it lay"
Just then the train came along and
Axtell boarded it and came into the
city.
OFFICERS SENT OUT.
AS soon as the overland train reached
the city Superintendent Wright had a
special made up, and he sent out and
gathered such officers as could be found
for immediate duty. The train could
not go out until the Oregon got in, at
| 10:30
The officers who went out were Sher-
iff Johnson and Deputy George Kelly,
Policeman William Talbot (who was
| off his duty for the night. Railroad
Officer William Ahern and Frank
Shook. All We're armed with either
rifles or double-bar shotguns.
THE BODY FOUND.
The officers had been on the ground
but a short time when the body Of the
dead robber was found in a heap along
| side Of the track, stark and stiff in
| death. Word was received that the
body would arrive in the city on freight
train No. 9, due at 1920 a. M, and
quite crowd gathered at the depot to
see 1t. But when the train arrived the
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