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

If there's any shooting coming you can
block their game. They won't shoot at
you.
$50 L stepped in front of the door. As
1 did so some one came toward the door,
and the masked man drew his pistol and
took two shots at him over my shoulder.
by this time the train was running at
full speed, and realizing that in some way
Ingals had control, | opened the door
and threw myself backward into the coach
and as soon as did so both men sprang
off the platform.
when they jumped we were at least
two miles from where the hold-up was
first, and the train was going at mile a
minute.
81 can't for the life of me see how any
one could jump from train going at the
speed ours was without getting killed.
Both of the men 1 was with were Ameri-
cans. and believe the young fellow who
was killed was also an American.
The masked man who went back with
me from the engine to cut the train in two
was short, thick-set man, about five feet
two inches in height and seemed to be
very active and powerful The fellow on
the platform 1 could not see very well,
owing to the darkness
There is one thing sure: none of the
men were railroaders, for could tell that
by their actions. May be Ingals didn't
rush that train into Sacramentol
"He told me aiterward that as soon as
he shot the fellow that we left on the en-
CINE and he had tumoled down the bank
he realized that he had urgent bust
ness in Sacramento, so he just pulled her
wide open, grabbed my shovel and went
to throwing coal.
You see, Ingals never loses his head,
and he knew that the only show
he had to keep the other robbers
from coming over the top of the
train taking him in the rear and shooting
him full of holes was to keep the train
jumping so lively that no one could get
over the express cars, and you bet he did
it,"
Conductor o. NJ. Morris, who was in
charge of the train. said: "As soon as we
began to slow up realized that something
was the matter and 1 started out of the
back door of the last coach to see what
was up.
''The train came to stop, and dropped
down on the platform, closely followed by
Brakeman Johnson. AS soon as we hit
the platform some one took two shots at
US and yelled, Get in there, you - and
We stood not upon the order of our going,
but obeyed orders.
81 have been in hold-ups before and I
knew what was up as soon as [ saw the
flash of the pistol. On returning to the
coach l started through the train in order
to quiet my passengers.
Some OF them were greatly excited,
but all the train hands knew that
the stopping of the train meant an at
tempt at robbery.
"None of us said anything about it to
the passengers. and as I spoke IN an ordi-
nary tone of voice, telling them that
everything was all right, their transient
excitement soon subsidized.
AS rapidly as 1 could made my way
toward the front of the train with the
intention of assisting my head man in
making stand against the robbers, in
case they tried to enter the coaches, and
rob the passengers. but had not got half
the length OF the train when it started
up again and was soon running at
full speed; and 1 want TO say right
here that have as gritty a crew as runs
on this roads, Knowing this, also know
that the train-Iobbers would be sure to get
scrap if they tried to come inside, and
that is why 1 wanted to get to the front
end so as to back the boys up"
AS soon as the train arrived in the depot
at Sacramento Conductor Morris ran rap
idly up the stairs leading 10 the office OF
Superintendent Wright and gave notice of
the attempted hold-up, but before any
action could be taken Superin tendent
Wright, who was passenger on the same
train, appeared and in an incredib IDLY short
time had organized posse of officers.
They boarded an outgoing train and
went forward to the scene of the attempted
robbery in the hopes of finding some traces
of the robbers, who had sprung from the
rapidly moving tram, as it was believed by
the authorities that it was utterly
impossible for them to have jumped
from a train running at full speed with
out sustaining injuries which would
necessarily cripple them to such an extent
that their capture could be effected, even
if they were not instantly killed
Eventually brief message was received
by messenger that the party had found
the body of the man who was shot by the
engineer, and as soon as possible an en-
CINE and car with a reinforcement of of
ficers was started for the scene of the
hold-up.
Engineer Ingals lives on Henry street,
Berkeley, and has wife and one child.
He formerly ran on the Berkeley local and
was known as cool, coura veous man.
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