The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-03
TRAIN ROBBERY IN WYOMING.
UNION PACIFIC FLYER HELD
UP BY SIX MASKED MEN.
The Express and Baggage Cars
Looted, but What the Amount
Stolen Not Yet Known.

LARAMIE (Wyo.), June 2.-The first
section of the Union Pacific overland
flyer was held up by six masked men
at 2:15 o'clock this morning half a mile
west of Wilcox, fifty-seven miles west
of this city.
The train was Tagged just east Of the
| little bridge at that point. Two of the
men entered the cab of the engine and
presented guns to Engineer w. H.
Jones and his firemen, and told him to
| pull across the bridge and stop. AS
soon as the train passed over the bridge
the gang placed a charge of dynamite
on the bridge for the purpose of blow
ing it out and preventing the second
section, which runs ten minutes be-
hind the first section, from coming
over.
The first section was run a short dis
lance further west, and the express
and baggage cars were then looted, the
cars being damaged by the charges of
dynamite used for opening the safe.
Engineer Jones, who did not intend TO
submit to the holdup, was roughly
handled by the desperadoes, being
struck over the head with a billy and
otherwise hurt.
Woodcock, the express messenger,
would not open the car door when they
| made the demand, and the door was
| blown open by dynamite, and Wood
cock was knocked down and rendered
| insensible.
| A special train left here at o'clock
| taking a posse of officers and horsemen
| with their horses They arrived at Will
| cox at $50 and departed Immediately
| in pursuit of the robbers, who escaped
| on horseback and started north.
| In addition to the posse that left here
| early this morning and were on the
| trail at $50, carload Of horses and a
dozen men were brought east to Will
| cox this afternoon on the passenger
train. Another posse was organized at
Dana and dispatched from that point,
| as a part of the plan to get the rob-
bers surrounded as speedily as posi-
| BILE
The amount of booty secured is un
known. The shipments of money west
are said to have been unusually heavy
lately, and from this fact estimates as
high as $4,000 have been made to-day,
but railroad and express officials this
evening place the amount low, even to
l.
place the amount high do so largely
from the fact that a tremendous effort
is being made to catch the six men
One hundred pounds of dynamite was
found to-day near the scene of the rob-
berry, and a piece of a $500 bill was
found. This strengthens the theory
that they got a large sum.
There are three theories concerning
the robbers. One is that they are men
who have been working on the grades
that are being built for the new cut
offs: another is that the men are a part
of the famous Hole in the Wall"
gang. The third theory is that Jack
Nolan heads the gang.
The express company has offered
reward of 81 900 for each robber dead
or alive
OMAHA, June 2.-The Union Pacific
Company offers a reward of $1,000 a
head for the robbers who held up its
train in Wyoming this morning.
SALT LAKE, June "a special to
the Tribune" from Rawlins, Wyo., says
the Union Pacific robbers at Wilcox to-
day obtained $4,000 in money and
about $4,000 worth of diamonds, and
that a large amount of money in bills
was destroyed by the explosion