Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
BANDITS AFTER WEALTH
They Hold Up a Train In New
Mexico.
phe Makes q Gallant Fight and che
Robbers secure No Wealth..
One Robber IL Instant
ly Killed.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, Oct. "a mes
a < received at S:15 yesterday stated
that the east bound No 2 passenger
train, due here at S:45, was being held up
at Rio Puerco bridge, about thirty miles
from this city. As 500 as the train
pulled out of the station 1t was halted
by several masked men, and the express
messenger commanded to open the doors
Of his car. A general fusillade Of shots
kept the passengers ~terrorized. Late ac-
counts, although meager. say that the
messenger is still locked in, but a num-
Der of shots have been fired into the car.
The Atlantic and Pacific company Will
send a special train Of officers TO the
scene at once. 1t is learned h a Cade
Selvy, a special secret service officer OF
the railroad, is on the held up train.
AT 1910 o'clock n message was re-
ceived from Rio Puerco station thai one
Of the holdups, Colonel Young, Is dead.
When the robbers jumped on the engine
and compelled Engineer Ross and his
fireman to uncouple the engine and ex-
press car from the train, Deputy United
States Marshal LOOMS. who was re
turning from the west, took in the stu
alton and fired at the first man, killing
Young. The robbers then commenced
shooting and shot a lantern from the
hand of a brakeman. Rumors here are
tina several others were shot, but this Is
not yet confirmed.
RIO Peurco Is only a watering station.
with a telegraph office IN charge OF the
pump man. The robbers, after cutting the
angine and express ear from the train, ran
hem TO the bridge several hundred yards
away. The pump reported having heard
an explosion and believed the robbers had
burned up an excursion car. Engineer
Ross is off the engine and guarded by a
robber.
A special to the Denver Republican, re-
re.ved at midnight from Albuquerque, N.
NJ, says the heldup passenger train from
the west Is Just in. Conductor Sam Heady
states tina when the train reached the RIO
Puerco tank, Engineer Ross aid that a
Din OF the engine was out of gear, but he
thought he could go up the divide. The
conductor thought not, n just as the EN-
g.neer was about to fix the PIN three
masked men jumped on the engine, when
The shooting commenced. A lantern was
shot ont of the hands of the brakeman,
after which the engineer was toId 10 I'M
couple the engine and express car from
the train. Deputy United States Mar
shall LOOMS, who has been down in Ari-
iona on the trail OF southern New Mexico
bandits, was on his return to th!sc city, and
he left the smoking car when the first shot
was fired. He took deliberate aim at one
IF the robbers, shooting him through the
mead. The man ran for a hundred yards
and dropped dead. The other robbers re-
urned 10 the Maipa.s, where their voices
,all.ng for their comrades could be heard.
Conductor Heady stated that LOOMS re-
NAMED at RIO Puerco expecting the rob
,ers TO return for their dead companion,
white Selvy met the posse of officers at At
ante and Pacific Junction and returned
with the party 10 RIO Puerco.
The holdup was a fallure financially, the
"obbers securing no money.