The record-union., 1896-10-15
WORK OF ONE MAN.
fiOLD.UP OF THE UNION PACIFIC
TRAIN IN IDAHO.
His Tanner of Doing Business Led
Those Aboard to Believe He Had
Many AccOmplices.

| SALT LAKE CUtah), Oct 14.-It ap-
pears that the holdup of the west
| bound Union Pacific train No. eight
miles east of Ogden at BIS this morning
| was the work of one man, single handed
| and alone, who by a clever coup cajoled
the passengers and trainmen into the
belief that he had ample assistance in
the raid that he was making. His meth
| cd of operation was as follows: He first
made his appearance by climbing over
| the tender into the cab Of the engine
| and peremptorily demanding the fire
| man and engineer to throw up their
hands, saying that he was about to rob
| the train. The robber was disguised in
| such a manner as to prevent any possi-
bility of Identification, having his head
| inclosed in a sack with eye-holes cut
| in it.
! The men Immediately complied with
| the request of the robber, and were
forced to disguise themselves as he di-
rected, furnishing them with flour sacks
| to put over their heads. Over this mask
| they We're required to pull down their
| hats in a manner that would indicate to
| the passengers and others that they,
| too, were robbers.
captive engineer and fireman to un-
couple the train, leaving the express
| and mail car attached to the engine.
After this was done he personally
mounted the engine, leaving the en-
gineer and fireman on the ground,
pulled open the throttle and ran half a
mile down the track, where he stopped
| the engine and began his efforts to blow
ha fa
and mail clerks in the meantime remain
| ing in the respective cars.
The robber commanded Express Mes
senger Mccoy to maintain absolute si-
lence, an injunction which he unwilling
ly but explicitly obeyed. After this he
spent an Industrious but fruitless thirty
minutes labor in trying to blow open
| the safe with dynamite.
| During the operations of the robber
the express messenger sat quietly on a
box near by. After failing to reach the
| inside of the safe, and seeing that sue
cess in that direction was impossible,
he abandoned his work and turned his
attention to the mail car, where he COM
| manded the clerk to throw out the reg
| istered packages, and four mail bags
were accordingly thrown out. Taking
to cut open the bags and rifle them of
such matter as suited his fancy. He
| secured number of registered pack
ages, but as to the exact number and
how much money they contained there
is no means of ascertaining at this time.
| The robber then escaped. The direc-
| ton he took is not known.
| The passengers were not molested, but
were greatly frightened, and being led
| to believe that the bank on each side
| were lined with robbers ready to shoot
at the first man that appeared, kept
very quiet
The four mail pouches overhauled
We're through pouches. Three of them
were destined for San Francisco, and
came. one from Chicago, one from
Omaha and the other from Hartford,
Conn. The fourth was from Chicago,
going through to Sacramento.
The bandit threw away the large
packages likely to contain merchan-
disc, and carried off an armful of the
smaller one. He also took the receipts,
which makes it more difficult to deter
mine what packages are gone.
| The only clew to the identity of the
| robber is the fact that a stranger was
noticed in the neighborhood yesterday
riding one horse and leading two others.
He remained around during the day and
evening, and acted in a suspicious man
ner. 1t is claimed that he showed great
experience in handling a train, which
leads to the supposition that at some
time he has been railroad man. 1t is
reported tonight that a package con-
tanning $4,000 in greenbacks from
Wells. Fargo & Co.'s Bank in San Fran
cisco was overlooked by the robber, who
| got hold of it, tore the end open and
| threw it to one side without examining
it sufficiently to become acquainted with
the nature Of its contents.