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

Albuquerque, n. M, Oct. "a mes
sage received at S:15 yesterday stated
hat 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 SOC 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 ear. 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 that Cade
Selvy, a special secret service officer or
the railroad, Is on the held up train.
At 1910 o'clock a message was re-
ceived from Rio Puerco station that II
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 n ex-
press car from the train. Deputy United
States Marshal LOOMS. who was re-
tulliiS lioAi ~ Ntob, AVph III bhN ~
ation 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
that several others were shot, but his 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
engine and express car from the train. ran
Them 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-
ce.ved at midnight from Albuquerque. N.
NJ, says the heldup passenger train from
The west is just In. Conductor Sam Heady
states that when the train reached the RIO
Puerco tank, Engineer Ross said that a
pin of the engine was out of gear, but he
thought he could go up the div.de. The
conductor thought not, and 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 out OF the hands Of the brakeman,
after which the engineer was told TO UNI
couple the engine and express car from
the train. Deputy United States Mar
shal Loomis, who has been down in Ari-
iona on the trail OF southern New Mexico
bandits, was on his return to this city, and
ne left the smoking car when the first shot
was fired. He took deliberate aim at one
II the robbers, shooting him through the
head. The man ran for a hundred yards
ana dropped dead. The other robbers re-
.urned TO the Malpa!s, where their voices
,alling for Their comrades could be heard.
Conductor Heady stated that LOOMS re-
NAMED at RIO Puerco expecting the rob-
oers to return for their dead companion,
lille Selvy met the posse OF officers at At
ante and Pacific Junction and returned
with the party TO RIO Puerco.
The holdup was a failure financially, the
~obbers securing no money.