The record-union., 1897-02-10

the Trail OF One of the Escaped
Bandits, Who is Heading Toward
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
! Los ANGELES, Feb. 9.-The west
! bound Santa Fe overland train. which
was held up seven miles east of Peach
( Springs, Ariz.. last night arrived in
/ Los Angeles at > p. m, half an hour
+ late
/ Pullman Conductor Holmes gave the
! following particulars of the hold-up:
The robbers corraled the watchman
! at Nelson, station six miles east of
! the Springs, for four hours. waiting for
( No. to come along. When the train
showed up they made the watchman
! flag the engineer with a white light.
/ Stopping the train, the robbers COM
! PEELED the fireman to get out and cut
I the mail and express cars off. The
/ train conductor. Rice. was in the
/ sleeper with Conductor II. Bellman of
/ the sleeper. Both went forward to see
what was the trouble. when they were
notified to get back
| After cutting the express and bag
! gage cars off. the two messenger
/ agents jumped from the express car.
Agent Summers, crawling under the
car, hid on the trucks He saw one of
the robbers standing on the steps, and
/ he shot him dead
| Two Of the robbers took the engine
! and two cars with the engineer and
mail clerk and ran two miles west. one
guarding the engineer and the other
the mail agent. The engine was backed
] nm ty4~il 70 e
gang would not show up. not knowing
| he was dead, but as he did not do so,
/ they ransacked the mail. taking all
the loose registered letters.
! by this time Summers. the fireman.
/ and one other man approached the
cars, and the robbers disappeared in the
| darkness"
| Alexander C. Summers, the plucky
messenger who killed one of the rob
! bers. has been in the employ of Wells,
Fargo 6, Co. for ten years. He is
/ about 81 years DID, and resides in this
! city. His account of the hold-up is as
| feloVe9.r
The first intimation I had of the
hold-up was the train stopping about
! ten miles east of Peach Springs. At
| first 1 thought the train had been
| tagged for orders. I said, We're in for
it, and l turned out the lights over
my desk. l grabbed my revolver, and
| Randall, who deserves great credit for
| his bravery, grabbed up the shotgun
As the train slowed up one of the rob-
I bers proceeded to uncOuple the mail
and baggage car from the train. Ran
dali took the door to the left and the
one TO the right which L opened eau
tiOuSly. Not seeing anyone, l dropped
to the ground, mad swung on the brake
| beams as the car moved up. at the
same time observing one of the rob
bers standing on the lower step of the
platform. l took good aim and fired,
and the robber tumbled headlong off the
step. He had in his hand a small cut
eff double barrelled gun, and was at
the time endeavoring to get a bead on
my helper, who was trying to get
down on the opposite side. AS soon as
1 fired 1 also dropped to the ground,
and the engine, mail and express car
moved away.
THE bullet entered the back of the
outlaws head just above the left ear.
found under his coat bag which con-
tanned several sticks of dynamite.
Il then went into the smoking car,
where the utmost confusion prevailed
The fireman was the only ONE who
would accompany me. and learning that
there We're no more robbers in the VII
cinity, we walked down the track and
found that two robbers who had ac-
companied the cars had entered the
express car but were unable to get
into the safe, owing to the fact that the
man who had the dynamite was dead,
and failed to respond to their cadls.'
Albert s. Grant, the mail clerk, said
that the robber demanded admittance
to his car through the engineer. He
obeyed the command, and while the
robber covered him and the engineer
with a gun he helped himself to nine
packages of registered matter. The
robber appeared to be a we'll educated
man. After he left several shots were
fired, and Messenger Summers then
knocked ON the door of the car and told
him the robbers had gone There was
great excitement among the passengers
when the train came to a stop and
the firing began and valuables were hid
den in every conceivable place in the
cars.
ON THE TRAIL OF ONE ROBBER.
KINGMAN (Ariz.). Feb. 9-The In
dams who are on the trail of the rob-
Der who held up the west-bound pas
senger train last night are headed north
toward the Grand Canyon of the Colo
rado. The robber is riding a horse and
leading another. 1t has been showing
all day, making the train dim. 1t is
supposed that Donovan, who held up a.
Southern Pacific train and killed the
messenger one year ago is concerned in
the robbery. He is known to have been
in hiding near the Grand CanyOn The
dead robber has not yet been identified.
TIe wore clothes and carried a rifle
stolen from a rancher in the vicinity
a month ago. and answer the descrip-
ton of one Baldy Creighton.
Shot Her Husband.