The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-13
LATEST HOLD-UP.
On the Santa Fe Pacific Rail-
 road Near Grants.
Tha Alhnnnernne Democrat has the


 Following scvoaut of he rege-. naiI-a- : read st Grants Ieet Saturday night
 ne hoI7sst au sn?a-eotls ,o4 r,oss success ful aoId-up in the history Of the santa Fe Pacif railroad occurred last night at about o'clocl oear Grants station The regular passsnge train reached about 30 minutes late and con | sisted of mail car. a dead-head baggage cal the regular baggage car, an express car, a day coach, chair car and two sleepers. On going to the water tank at siding two miles east of Grants, known as Grants the train was taken possession of by the deSperadoes, the party be- 1 Ing supposed to consist of four men, as no more than that were seen. After securing possession one of the men took posse ssiOn of the engine and he and another member of the party cut the train in two just ahead of the day coach, and the engine and the attached ears were taken half mile further east. At the point where the express car was cut of the messenger was ordered out of the car and none but the robbers went on ahead As soon as the train was cut Conductor Aldrich walked 10 Grants station and sent message to Sheriff Hubben of this county. saying:
 Train No. held up at Grants. Robbers have taken possession of train and run out east about a mile and half. They were blowing up the safe in express car just after I started to walk back to station. They had no orses, but it is likely they had horses near, whore they stopped the train
 About the same time message was received from Division Superintendent Hubbard of the Santa Fe Pacific at Gallup saying
 "Our No 2 held up at Grants. Can't say re- suit of the robbery. but express has been blown up and and operator Grants thinks it is being burned as he sees fire in the direction of the train. Please send posse to pursue robbers"
 In response to these messages train No. 1 from the east was taken by Sheriff Hubbell and De- putty Sheriff Fred FOrnoff, who are now on their way to the scene.
 later message says that after the robbers had blown up the safe in the express car and footed it, the engine and cers were abandoned and ran back iuto the cars left standing on the track, Itis presumed that they wantonly re- versed the engine and sent it back to make a complete wreck and block the track If such were their intention they were entirely success ful. for the express Car, the day coach and chair car were telese0ped. afterwards tsking ire and being totally destroyed The baggage in the baggage car was all taken out before the fire s>o-;.,1 .t. Ile-~ i.as aa ,,, L-ea no Uvrd re- ca', ai that v0r'T 'r}f"s-o auv loss oT lifl OF bodily ln.u-y. oul s,rc Que arrives from s.s scene. lt TIu be severn. hours before the track ..t so.I.. where .-- d.- occurred gYlI f. pas sable, but it is thought that the engine, mail car and two baggage cars, which were ahead of the express car and were not reported as injured will be apt 10 come on to Albuquerque without wait ng for the wreck to be cleared up. NO description of the robbers nor clue to the T identity has as yet been received here. The Santa Fe Pacific has recently been sending out hundreds of laborers among them being many very tough characters Alarge number of them | were located near Grants, and one theory ad- 1 yanced is that some ofthe these men did the ] work. It is rumored among the employees of the Santa ] Fe Pacific that Harry Able, who was firing with | Harry McCarty, was taken on ahead by the rob- | bers and was killed by the explo ion when the | safe wa blown up. but the story lacks official | confirmation At3 30 o'clock this morning no | notice of the train having started from Grants | b i'd been received in this city, and nothing fur ther cOuld he learned