The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27
Desperate Fight With Sheriff TYLER
g.. and Posse.
SM0KELESS POWDER USED
ONE MAN DEAD AND ANOTHER
MISSING.
Desperadoes Fought at Roost and
Then Went to San Rafael River
Are Now Observation-Disclosures
Anxiously Awaited-Outlaws Stole
Horses In Moab.

All northeastern Utah is excited by
the last raid against the Robbers Roost
gang, and Mr.. T. B. Hammond, a WELL
known merchant of Moab, told last
night Of the present situation.
The robbors. or some of Them" he
said, ARE corralled at present on the
San Rafael river, and our men, under
The leadership of Sheriff Tyler, had
surrounded them at last accounts;
whether they will escape or not is I'M
known, as we have not heard from the
seat of war for several days.
SO far the casualties have been one
Indian wounded and one robber disap-
peared-he is known to have gone into
the first fight, but was never seen ito
come out of it, and the chances are that
he is dead. A few weeks ago Blue
john fne of the gang, waltzed into
Moab at night and departed with the
best horses in the town, and Andrew
Tangreen, a deputy Sheriff, started af-
ter them. He passed Silver Tip an
other of the gang, and an Indian COM
ing into town for food. They learned
as soon as they reached Moab, that
Tangreen was out after the horses, and
that night they struck out to warn
their friend. Blue john The next
morning Tangreen was on his way back
to Moab to get fresh horses and help,
when he met Silver Tip and the In
dian. They slid off their mounts and
covered him with their WincheSters in
an instant:
Do YOU want us? they asked, ca
sually.
"Tangreen looked down the barrels
of the rifles and decided that he didn't
and rode on to town, while the two out
laws rode for life towards she Robbers
rooSt.
They rode fast. but Tangreen had
gotten to town and Sheriff Tyler, with
Deputies Tangreen, Day, Wilcox, West
wood and the train robber We're hot on
their trail. The train robber? Oh, 1
will tell you about him later The next
morning the robbers were surrounded
at sun-up and the fight begun. The In
dian had started for the horses and was
shot and was dragging himself over
ridge when last seen. Then Blue
John came out. He stood on the high
est point, a fair mark at sixty yards,
and with the morning sun blazing be-
hind him, raised himself to his full
height, raised his rifle and shouted:
Drift, drift, you ---". The Lord
knows how many shots We're fired at
him, but he finally stepped back below
the crest apparently unhurt. That end
ed the fight. Our men had to shoot
against the sun, and the robbers used
Sn0k6leSS powder. All We could see
was their bodies, and they fired at our
smoke and kept themselves well hid.
Where they got 49,. arms and smoke
less powder, no one knows, but they
have them, which the posse considers
a very important fact, and one that
calls for caution on his part. Silver
Tip, Blue John and two other white
men, with the Indian, We're in the first
fight. The Indian is known to be
wounded, and one of the white men
never showed up again; so the chances
are that he is dead.
Our men came back after the first
fight, and then the train robber was
arrested. He gave his name as Will
son when he volunteered with the posse
and was arrested ten minutes after his
return for train robbery by a Wells
Fargo agent and locked up.
1.-THE posse started out again the day
after their return and found that the
robbers had shifted their quarters and
we know that they have been located
on the San Rafael river, but have heard
nothing from them for several days.
One thing may be depended upon, how
ever: Sheriff Tyler and his deputies
are determined men, and if there is any
way under heaven to kill or arrest the
robbers, it will be taken advantage of.
and they will be brought back dead or
alive
Mr.. Hammond is stopping at the
Walker, and will be here several days.