The San Francisco call., 1899-09-12
NO TRACE Of
TRAIN ROBBERS
Posses Searching the
Hills for Them.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES. Sept lite west
pound Southern Pacific express which
was held up and robbed near Cochise
Arizona on Saturday night. has arrived
IN thls city. The express car looked as
1housh II had been struck by a cyclone
All the windows and doors are smashed
and the roof has several holes blown
through it. The floor is strewn with
broken timbers and fragments of iron
and the safe is utterly demolished.
Mail Clerk c. J. Adair, Who is also the
baggagenan. says: "On the night of Sep
tember 9, at II o'clock we were Just ready
to pull out of Cochise, when the door Of
the car was thrust open and a man with
a dirty colored mask covered me with
his rife and yelled Throw up your hands
Instead Of throwing up my hands 1
jumped back in the car. He commanded
me TO come out and I did The next
thing I knew / was standing on the plat
form in line with the station agent. mail
clerk, fireman and engineer. They made
us all hold up 5ur hands, and while one
Of the robbers searched us the others COW
cred US with their guns. They were very
Jolly, and cracked jokes all the time.
They then told the mail clerk to un-
that he diG not know how, and they made
the fireman do II. As soon as il was done
they marched US on board and ordered the
engineer TO take the express and mail
cars down the road about a mile and
half after they told the engineer 10 stop
they commanded US to sit down. They
produced some dynamite and took plenty
OF time for their work.
1t was fully ten minutes before the
first explosion occurred. Shortly after
ward there was another. We could not
see what they Were doing very well on ac-
count Of the darkness. After they got
through piundering the car they told US
that We had better not go away for fifteen
minutes and they started 10 walk back
toward COChiSe about seVenty-fiVe yards
from the track. Just as they left some
one fired five shots These were the onlV
). II. Butter, local agent for Wells
Fargo. viii not give the exact value of
the booty taken by the robbers. He said
II amounted TO only a nominal sum.
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Sept. 11.-George Scar
borough, the well-knOwn ranger. who mas
been very successful in the Southwest in
running down outlaws, is on the trail of
the bandits who held up the Southern
Pacific express on Saturday night al Co
thlse. He arrived at Cochise yesterday
and soon found the trail of the robbers
lie is accompanied by his son. Constable
Alv0rd Of Wilcox and Deputy Sykes arc
also on the trail and another posse has
been organized by Sheriff Scott White Of
Cochise County and IS in pursuit.
A special dispatch from Wilcox says
that the bandits came from the Sulphur
Springs Valley and rode through Wilcox
the evening Of the hOldup. The engineer
Cf the train that was held up saw two of
the robbers. and from his description they
are believed 10 belong TO the Folsom gang.
one Of the men described is an outlaw
named McGinnis. who is well known in
Southern Arizona
The bandits crossed the alkau flats and
went toward the Chiricahua Mountains.
The officers in pursuit are confident that
they have the right trail. Colonel Kos
terlitSky. the gendarme Of Sonora has
been notified OF the progress of the rob
hers toward Mexico and he will proba bly,
take. the trail with squad of Mexican
Cdvalrymen.