The herald., 1897-02-10

the Wells-Fargo company. That is why,
when he was accosted at the Santa Fe
station, upon the arrival of the Santa Fe
overland at 1:55 pm. yesterday, he
begged to be allowed to first deliver his
valuable freight and report to the office
before he could say anything about the
Arizona incident, in which he uncon-
sciously figured as a hero. He went
directly to the Arcade depot. where he
was met by large number of his fellow
messengers, who greeted him with
cheers. Some of them had themselves
been held up, and they could not only
understand the ticklish position of Sum
meNs, put could also appreciate the
bravery and coolness he had displayed.
MI. Summers is stockiy- built man.
muscular, good-natured, deliberate in
speech and just the type Of man who
would keep cool in the most trying
emergency His home is at No 1877 West
Inirty-second street in this city He
Is about "a years old and has been in the
employ of the Wells-Fargo company for
ten years past. Though he had taken
his life in his hard in facing and killing
the train robber, and had in so doing
displayed commendable bravery. sum
mers showed no elation over the act or
pleasure in the contemplation of a re-
ward that is sure to come to him.
win rev words the express messen-
ger told to The Herald reporter the facts
OF the experience TO this effect
HOW IT HAPPENED
It was about 3 oclo.k last n!ghe,"
said he. when the SaIta Fe oye r,ard
was proceeding westward near Teach
springs, Ariz. At q cut about ten miles
east OF Peach Springs the train slowed
up. | did not then know the cause Of
the stopping but / soon learned il was
done by the signal CT the trackwalker,
who is kept on duty there, and who had
been captured by robbers ard compelIed
TO nag the train. after he had been their
prisoner for two hours.''
I'm FOR TT Now
ihe train stopped and we heard II
sl!ot. said to my helper, Randall
~ e are In for 1t now and put cut the
lights. We could hear some one urcoup-
ling our car from the coach that was
next to 1t. The car we were in was the
express car and followed the mail car,
which was the first on the train. We
DIDN'T know it then, but we learned later
that the robbers had made the fireman
cilmh out of his cab and go back under
guard OF one of the fellows, to cut off tho
mail and express car from the rest of
the train. We could hear the work oe
uncoupling, ard Randall jumped out of
one side-door and ! from the opposite
slue VI tine car Randall mad a sawed
off shotgun loaded with buckshot. and
he displayed great nervs in going for the
one robber who was there When the
uncoupling had been done the robber
sent the fireman back into coach and
told him to stay there, so he was out of
the way.
WITH THE FIRST SHOT
1.-THE robber saw Randall get out of
the car and was watching him. 1 kept
my eyes on the robber and crept up as
close as l could to him. He was about
to get up on the lower step of the rear
platform of the express car when / got
upon the corresponding step on the other
side and fired my revolver at him. NV
first shot must have hit him in the head
and killed him instantly. AS he fell, the
gun he was carrying was discharged. I
thought at first he was firing at me.
l was not then certain had hit him,
and as I dropped down beside the track
saw his form lying down on the oppo-
site side. Thinking he might be play
ing the same tactics that l was, I fired
two more shots at him.
The first shot / fired across the plat
form between the end of the car AMI
train box. Then the robber and both
dropped to the ground and the two cars
and engine went on ahead for two milas.