Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-06
FIGHT WITH BANDITS
Sheriffs Posse Has Hot Time with Union
Pacific Train Robbers,
OUTLAWS USE THEIR REV0lVsRS FREELY
Two Horses of the Pursuing Party Are
Shot and Killed,
QUITE A SERIOUS SETBACK FOR POSSE
Robbers Rain Bullets in Perfect Shower
Upon Their Pursuers.
,UITE A SERIOUS SETBACK FOR POSSE
SEEK SAFETY IN MOUNTAIN FASTNtSStS
Authorities ReorInni1c Their Forces
aud Propose to Capture the
had Man Ut Any Cost
IL Possible.

CHEYENNE. wyo, June 5.-(speciar Toll
egram. )-The sherifr's posse which left Cas-
per yesterday in pursuit of three of the
Union Pacific train robbers overlook them
when thirty miles out aud were given a
severe setback in tho fight which followed,
the robbers shooting two OF their horses and
stampeding two more.
The posse consisted of Hazen of Converse
county Herstand of Natrona county, Lee
Devine, foreman of the ICY" outfit, and
seven others. They followed the trail OF the
robbers almost due north ana over very
high, sandy. rolling prairie.
The bandits had eaten lunch at Tea Pot
rocks, twenty-five miles from Casper, where.
with field glasses, they could see the coun-
try behind them for ten miles and prob
ably their pursuers approaching They
had been following high ridges, but after
leaving Tea Pot rocks struck down draw
to the head of Tea Pot creek and followed
along the creek bottom for six miles.
At high cliff of rocks the bandits turned
abruptly to the left and rode into the rocks.
They were seen by the posse and followed
closely, one man trailing them while the
others rcde to the side. Within 200 yards
of the rocks Charles Hallaby and e. T. Pay
ton were in the lead Suddenly two shots
rang out and Payton's horse went down
with bullet through the heart. The whole
posse dismounted and ran in among the
rocks under cover.
More Shooting.
sou, ,hot.
by the robbers, but only two shots were
fired in return, as they were completely
hidden behind rocks and could not be seen.
few minutes later j. E. Long of the posse.
who had been some distance behind, came
up and the robbers put a ball through his
horse lengthwise and rained bullets around
him like nail. Two more of the horses starn-,,
pedcd down a draw to the east and the
posse was considerably demorarzed.
The robbers took advantage of this to
beat hasty retreat and as 1t was too
dark to follow them, the pursuit ceased
till this morning, when the trail taken
| up at the head of Dugout creek, forty miles
north Of Casper. Two of the posse returned
to Casper, where reinforcements were
| started out to take the trail.
| General Manager Dickinson, Superintend-
ent Harris, Mr.. Buckingham of the Union
| Pacific, Superintendent Daniels and Manager
| Gentsch of the Pacific Express and Special
| Agent Wizard of the Union Pacific are at
Casper, directing the pursuit. If the rob-
bers succeed in reaching the Hole-in-the'
Wall the fastness will be surrounded and
a determined effort made to capture them.
| At the scene of the ambush one of the
posse this morning found shotgun marked
Pacific Express Company" which had been
dropped by the robbers. Frank Webb and
]. B. Miller of the sherff's posse were
knocked down by lightning during the pur-
suit and seriously injured.
| The latest advices from the scene OF tho
trouble that have been received by Union
Pacific officials at Omaha came from Casper,
Wyo., about p. m. Monday. This was
! telegram from Union Pacific agent and
read as follows;
| posse struck three robbers about thirty
miles north of here last night. Exchanged
some shots and disabled three of our horses
owing to darkness operations were sus.
| pended. Carrier left there soon after:
thinks it not possible for them TO escape.
Their horses are jaded. Posse should be
coming from the north to meet them long
before they can reach Hole-in-the- Wall.
which is their stronghold"