Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-09-06
FIVE BOLD BANDITS.
They Hold Up Train, DemOIish the
Express Car and Rob the Safe.

Cheyenne, Wyo.. Aug. 31.-Posses
have been sent out from RaWlInS,
Rock Springs, Green River and other
places in search of the bandits who
held up Union Pacific passenger train
No. near Upton station Wednesday
night. They have been traced in Il
southerly direction toward the Color
ado line. There are some steep noun
tains north of Rock Springs where 1T
would be hard to locate them if they
once reached the range, but they are
now thought to be south of the rail
road.
Paul Bailey, of the United States
marshal's force, has telegraphed to
the Washington authorities asking
that a federal reward be placed upon
the bandits. No action has yet been
taken by the state looking to the cap
ture of the robbers. No accurate in
formation is obtainahle at this time
of the amount of money the robbers
secured from the express safe Ofl'
cias say that it was not large.
Conductor Ed j. Kerrlgan, who was
in charge of the train when it was
held up, came into Cheyenne yester-
day. He gave the following account
of the holdup:
"We had Just passed Upton when /
felt the train stopping. l knew some
thing was wrong and went up ahead
to see what it was. There was Il
small fire by the track and | saw
some men going down toward the
baggage car. AS soon as l reached
the engine man covered me with Il
Winchester and made me hold up my
hands. When he saw | was the con-
ductor he took me back to the pas
senger cars and told me to uncoupc
the mail express and baggage cars
so they could run them down the
track / started to do this, but the
train was on a steep grade and the
passenger cars started to move down
by themselves. They let me set the
brakes on the coaches to hold them
and then ran the front part Of the
train down the track about half a
mile. After they stopped they order
ed Woodcock, the eXpressman. to un-
lock his cars and come out. This he
| refused to do for a minute; then
| when | saw they were going to blow
up the car | told him to come OUT,
and he did so.
''Thcy took the engineer Henry
| Hawley, Fireman Woodcock and my
self down the track a little distance
and left us, guarded by one man,
while they blew up the cars and
safes They blew the roof. sides and
end out of the express car and de-
molished the next car to it. They
| put three charges on the safe before
| they could break il open. After they
got what they wanted they went to
| their horses, which were tied nearby,
and fed.
"They did not rob the passengers,
but / had a hard time to keep the
passengers in the cars out of sight
before we cut off the front cars. ThcJ
shot at one passenger to scare him
and one got to walking around and
robber knocked him down with the
butt of his Winchester and told him
to lie there or he would get killed.
An old man who was deaf put his
head out of the car window and ]
lust got him in time to save his life.
He did not hear the robbers orders.
"Therc may have been five of them.
Two were at the baggage cars using
dynamite, one was at the engine, one
guarding us and think they left an
other with the horses. They we
all bad looking men and were well
armed -