The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-10
BOLD ROBBERY.
Train Held Up By One Man and
Robbsd by Three.
SECURES Se3, 900.
Rsvolysrs, Rifles and Dynamite
Used Freely Wounds Sew
eral and Makes Their
Escape.

The Great Northern trans.continental
train No. 8, leaving St. Paul Mimi,
Tuesday morning st 9 o'clock, was held
up at Wagner, Mont, 1856 miles east Of
Great Falls, at 32O Wednesday after
noon by three masked men who blew
open the express car and wrecked the
through safe with dynamite, securing
$50, 1000. :;
The robbery, in daylight, was one Of
the boldast that has ever occurred In the
west.
One Of the robbers boarded che 'sblind
baggage car at Hindale, a station
about 20 miles east Of Wagner. He ap-
peared to be q common hobo, but when
the conductor discovered him at 8 stop
almost Immediately afterward he drew
heavy Colts revolver and ordered him
to return to the rear Of the train on
penalty Of Instant death. The hobo
then climbed over the locomotive ten
der, and at the point Of his revolver
compelled the engineer and fireman to
stop the train at rsYine few miles
east Of Wagner, where his confederates,
two in number, both masked, lay in
wait. The hobo then compelled the
fireman and engineer to abandon the
engine and firing began on both sides
Of the train as it came to stop.
Passengers on the train began to look
out Of the windows and a brakeman
aighted on one side Of the train while
the travelling auditor, Douglas, aEghted
on the opposite side. Both instantly
became the target Of Winchesters in
the hands Of the robbers and we're
wounded. A passenger On the tourist
coach who was looking out Of the win.
dow was struck by a stray bullet and
seriously injured and two other pas
ssngers were shot but neither were Sc
riously injured.
To wreck the door Of the express car
with dynamite, with which both the
confederates who appeared from the
ravine were literally supplied, was the
work Of al instant. The expressman
was compelled to leave the car at the
point Of rife, and the through safe
was Immediately dynamited. The first
charge did not break it open, and four
others in quick succession were neces-
sary before it was forced. The robbers
hurriedly gathered in Its contents, con-
sisting Of specie shipments, drafts, coin
and valuable negotiable paper, and re-
treated, keeping the train crew snd
passengers off at the point Of their
rifles.
All three disappeared in the Esvine,
and were seen later, one mounted on .
bay horse, one upon white horse. one
upon buckskin heading southwark at
furious gait, the booty being plainly
visible in sack thrown across the sad
die bows Of the rider upon the buck
skin horse.
As the hobo climbed over the ten
der to the locomotive cab, he drew on q
mask rendering it almost impossible to
secure 3 good description. Each OF
his confederates was masked and the
only information obtainabls regarding
them is that one was evidently q half
breed.
This was the robber upon the buck
skin horse. The gang headed for the
Little Rockies range, lying across the
Milk river ID an almost inaccessible
country, consisting mainly OF bad
lands. Posses were Immediately organ
lied in pursuit, one by q sheriff who
happened to he passenger on. the
train