The age-herald., 1901-07-05
TRAIN ROBBERS
 MAY BE CAUGHT They Have Been Located by 0f- ficers Who Are in Pursuit HEADED FOR THE BAD LANDS The Estimated Loss of $33,ooo Proba- bly Is Too Large-The Robbers
 are Said to Be New at the
 Business.
HEADED FOR THE BAD LANDS

St. Paul, Minn.. July IA special to the Pioneer Press from Great Falls, Mont, says:
 The three men who held up the Great Northern express near Wagner. 90 miles east Wednesday afternoon will probably be captured before morning.
 Sheriff Griffith, with posse of twenty men, has surrounded them at Buck AL lens ranch, about forty miles south of Wagner, near the edge of the old reser- vation on the west fork of the Puchette river. The posse followed the bandits all yesterday afternoon finding signs of them at a ford on Beaver creek and again where they crossed the dry ford.
 Information that reached here late this afternoon is that the posse came in sight of the men about o'clock today near the ranch, and driving them in. surrounded the house. It Is probable that they will not be captured until after a severe fight. and at the latest advices Sheriff Griffith had not made the attack.
 The bandits are thought to be housed in the ranch buildings which offer every protection for siege. The posse may not try to force their capture until re- Inducements are received. It is under stood that another posse south of the dis trict, in the direction of Fort Hawley. will join Sheriff Griffin at Aliens ranch.
 The sheriffs posse has not yet received descriptions of the men, although Sheriff Griffin was passenger on the train that was robbed and saw the men escape across the plains on their horses. The gang was identified today by their horses. and when observed through field glasses the white, bay and buckskin on which they were mounted after the robbery were plainly seen.
 Contrary to first reports, the men are not experienced train robbers. Informa- tion from Wagner and nearby points is that they have been partially identified as cowpunchers, employed on ranch south of the Milk river. One is a half breed, as was thought at the time of the robbery. He Is known to be the man who boarded the express east of Wagner and forced the engineer and fireman to bring 1t to stop at the head of the ravine in which his confederates were hidden.
 The work of tracking the bandits was extremely difficult owing to the nature Of the country, Bad Lands, broken throughout by foothills and the eastern end of the Little Rocy range. Across the line of the reservation, a few miles dis tant, there are excellent hiding places, and 1t is thought that if the bandits should elude capture tonight and once get in this ground, 1t will be almost i'm possible to again find them.
 Information was received here from Havre that the travelling auditor of Clan cey, Mont, or Brakeman Whiteside was hit In the fusilade from the bandits at the time of the robbery.
 Gertrude Smith of Tomah, Wis, re- ceived slight flesh wound in the arm It Is probable that the first estimate of the loss, $S3,000, Is somewhat exaggerated Reliable information received today Is that T0,000 was secured, and that this with the damage to through express ship ments, resulting from the explosion in the car, win represent the entire loss of the company.