The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06

iron nerve, VINO having met train robbers
before was perfectly conversant with their
methods of transacting business.
From the minute the boylsh figure APP
peared over the back OF the tender and in
shrill tones demanded "All hands up''
Ingals was pre- pared to protect the lives of
the passengers and save the treasure en-
trusted to his care.
In a second he, by brief order to his
fireman, persuaded him to obey the rob-
ber's orders without question, and when
told to run slowly ahead he turned again
to the throttle and obeyed implicitly.
This action on his part allayed the sus-
picions of the youthful highwaymen, and
by so doing Ingals shortly afterward was
enabled to take his pistol from the box at
his feet and fire the shots that stopped for
all time the career of at least one OF the
desperadoes.
IngaIs is an old-tim IN the employ of
the Southern Pacific Company and has
been in hold-ups before. The fireman was
Pat Burns.
Engineer Ingals said to-night:
After passing Swingle station man
CHM bed over the tender and, looking over
the coal board. commanded, Throw up
your hands L could see from his attitude
and his tone that he meant business, and
also got the impression that he was an
old hand at the business.
HE was a tall and slender young fellow
He did not wear a mask, but had hand
kerchief tied across the lower part of his
face. 1t had slipped down exposing his
mouth and sandy mousta che.
81 had my hands up. Burns was slow
in doing so, aud l shouted TO him to
throw up his hands. He did so. 1 con-
cluded that 1 had better obey the order.
thinking 1 might have a chance to do
something later.
HE told me to slow down, and I COM
piled. lie then told me to run slowly to
the long trestle, which is known on the
road as bridge 80 A, and to stop the train
four car lengths from the east end of the
bridge.
LAS 1 stopped the train another masked
man climbed up the bank and asked the
train-robber in the cab if everything was
all right. The young How said:
" Yes, all fixed
1.-The man on the engine then ordered
me to pull the train up two car lengths
further. He told Burns, the fireman. to
get off the engine. He told bim to go
back with the masked man, who had
climbed up the bank, and uncouple the
express-car from the rest of the train.
Burns and the masked robber started back
along the train.
1.-The conductor and brakeman came
out GU to the platform Of one of the cars
10 see why the train stopped. The masked
robber shot at them twice with his revolt
yer, and with string of oaths ordered
them back into the train.
"At the sound of the shooting Ingals
continued, coming to a more graphic
period in the story, 1.-The robber with me
in the engine stepped TO the side between
the cab and tender and looked back. He
turned his back to me.
THAT was my opportunity and I lost
not second in taking advantage of il. l
reached down into my locker, got my re-
volyer and shot him i'll the back. / shot
again and he pitched forward from the
engine to the earth and rolled down the
bank.
GAS he fell his revolver went off. Then
l pulled the throttle wide open. 1 had
business in Sacramento right away, and l
got there. The fireman was back on the
train. l fired all the way in myself, and
kept poking coal into her all the way. We
got in thirteen minutes late.'
II,
was left on the platform at SwingIe Sta
ton, owing to the fact that the train
pulled out so suddenly. He says the train
was gone before he could catch even the
rear platform
while stood there looking after the
rrain," said Johnson, "a tramp came up
to me and told me that there was a man
killed down by the bank and asked me if
a fraI foh
sight behind the overland, would not stop
and take the dead man, who was the rob-
Der shot by Ingals, into Sacramento.
81 told him l did not know. The tramp
also told me that he and a companion had
been camping there, and that a short time
before the overland arrived there three
men came up to them and ordered them
to help uncouple the train, threatening to
kill them if they did not do so.
"He said the other tramp broke and ran
into the darkness. but he stayed there, not
desiring to lose his blankets. I got on to
the Oregon express and came into Sacra-
memo, which is the end of the division"
Pat Burns, who was firing for IngaIs on
the overland, is strong, sturdy young
fellow, whose face displays in every fea-
ture an undaunted courage.
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extremely reluctant to speak of the part
he took in assisting Engineer Ingals in
defeating the aims of the bandits
"When heard a voice shout, Hold up
your hands, everybody" he said, "and
looked up. saw the slim lad standing on
the tender with his gun pointed at Ingals,
and l thought it was a grand iosa, and
could not for a moment realize that the
lad was in earnest, for 1 knew that there
was large camp of bridgemen and labor
ers near by,who were engaged in repairing
the trestles, and 1 thought at once that it
was one of these playing joke on me.
but when I heard IngaIs say, Get
your hands up there, quick 1 knew it
was all off. so L just stuck my hands up
and waited for developments
when the train slowed down to a stop
the other man came climbing up the
bank with his mask on and wanted to
know if everything was all right
"Then the masked man orderad mn +o