The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-31
PURSUIT Of TRAIN ROBBERS
POSSES SEARCHING For BANDITS
WHO HELD UP A TRAIN.
Conductor Kerrigan Tells How the
Cnicn Pacific Passenger Train
Was Looted Near Upton, Colo

DENVER. Colo. Aug. ga special to
the News from Cheyenne. Wye. SAYS:
Posses have been sent out from Raw
hns, Rock Springs. Green River and other
places, In search Of the bandits who held
up Union Pacific passenger train No 8.
near Upton station, last night. They
have been traced in southerly direction.
toward the Colorado line. There are
some steep mountains north OF Rock
Springs, where Il would be hard 20 locate
them IL they once reached the range.
burt they are now thought TO be south OF
there.
Paul Bailey. OF the United States mar
shafs force. has telegraphed 10 the
Washington authorities, asking that a
dts
No action has yet been taken by the
state looking to the capture OF the rob
bers
No accurate Information Is oh,ainahle
at this time of the amount Of money the
robbers secured from the express safe.
officials say, however, tina, it was not
large.
story of the HoIdup,
Conductor Ed ]. Kerrigan, who was In
charge OF the train when IT was held up.
came In to Cheyenne today He gave
the Following account OF the holdup:
We had Just passed Upton when I
felt the train stopping I knew something
was wrong and went up ahead 10 see
what IL was. There was a small fire by
the track and saw some men going
down toward the baggage car. AS soon
as ] reached the engine man covered
me with a Winchester and made me hold
up my hands When he saw il wa. the
conductor, he took me back to the pas
senger cars and told me 10 uneouple the
mail, express and baggage cars, so they
could run them down the track start
ed to do this. but the train was on a
steep grade and the passenger cars start
ed to move down by themselves. They
let me set the brakes on the coaches 10
hold them and then ran the front part
OF the train down the track about half a
mile. After they stopped they ordered
Woodeock. the baggage and express man.
70 unlock his cars and come out This
he refused 10 do for a minute then,
when | saw they we're going to blow up
the car told him to come out and he
did so.
Blew Up Cars and safes.
They took the engineer Henry Wal
lerstein. the fireman, Woodeock the
brakeman and myself down the track a
little distance and left us guarded by
one man, while they blew up the cars and
end out OF the baggage car and demol-
ished the next car to IT, They put three
charges on the safe before they could
wanted they went TO their horses, which
were tied nearby, and Ned II took about
an hour TO complete their work
They did not rob the passengers hut
! had a hard time TO keep the passengers
in. their cars. out OF sight. before we cut
OF the front cars. They shot at one
passenger 10 scare him: another 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. Another old man,
who was deaf, put his head out OF n
car window and just got TO him in time
TO save his life. He did not hear the rob.
bers' orders.
There may have been Ave OF them
two we're at the baggage cars using dyna-
mite, one was at the engine. one guard
ing US and think they left another with
the horses They were all bad men and
well armed. think I could Identify
them II I saw them again"
what the Fiagman saw.
W. NJ. Kuhns who was fagman on the
train, said:
brakeman Fred Nash and were on
the train. As soon as the train stopped
| thought the engine was broken and
stepped on behind when | heard a shot
some fuses, to warn special freight
which was following MS
when I got back they had Kerrigan.
and were making him uncouple the cars.
! tell you he was gritty. and deserves
great credit He would not uncouple
those cars until they let him fix the
brakes. lie explained 10 them that these
the baggage cars and cause death. II
left alone without brakes They took
the train of and guarded US while they
used the dynamite We could see their
horses a few hundred yards from the
train. guarded By one man