Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-07-11
HELD UP A TEAM.
At she Point of a Revolver Robbers
Secure a big Booty on the Gresr
Trans-COntEnentaI.

secure Big Booty on the Great
Trans-COntinentaI.
ST. Paul, Mimi, July A Great
Falls, Mont, special to the Pioneer
Press says: The Great Northern
Trans-Continental train No. 3, leav
ing st. Paul Tuesday morning at 9
O'Clock, was held up at Wagner
Mont, 196 miles east of Great Falls.
at 1902 this afternoon by three
masked men who blew open the eX
presf car and wrecked the through
safe th dynamite, securing $4,000.
Ihes obbery in daylight was one of
the boldest that has ever occurred in
the west. One of the robbers board
ed the blind baggage" car at Hins-
dale, a station about 20 miles east of
Warner. He appeared to be a com
mon hobo, but when the conductor
discovered him at stop almost i'm
mediately afterward he drew heavy
Colts revolver and ordered him to re-
turn to the rear of the train on PEN
atty 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 a ravine a few
miles east of Warner, where his con-
federates, two in number, both
masked, lay in wait. The hobo then
compelled the fireman and engineer
to abandon the engine and firing be-
gan on both sides of the train as it
came to a stop.
Passengers on the train then began
to look out of the windows and a
brakeman alighted on one side of the
train, while Travelling Auditor Doug
las alighted on the outside. Both
instantly became the target of Win
chesters in the hands of the robbers,
but both escaped without injury. A
passenger on the tourist coach, who.
was leaning out of the window. was.
struck by stray bullet and seriously
in iured.
Towreck the dosr of the express car
with dynamite, which both the con-
federates that appeared from the
ravine were literally supplied, was
the work of an instant. The express
messenger was compelled to leave
the car at the point of rifle and the
through safe was Immediately dyna-
mited The first charge did not
break it open and four Others in
quick succession were necessary be-
fore it was forced. The robbers
hurriedly gathered in its contents of
specie shipments, drafts, coin and
valuable negotiable paper and re-
treated. keeping the train crew and
passengers off at the point of their
rifles.
All three disappeared in the ravine
and were seen later, one mounted on
bay horse, one upon a white horse,
one upon a buckskin, heading south
ward at furious gait, the booty be-
ing plainly visible in sack thrown
across the saddle bows of the rider
upon the buckskin horse.
St. Paul, Mimi, July "a special
from Great Falls. Mont, says: The
three men who held up the Great
Northern trans-Continental west
bound express near Wagner, 19e
miles east, Wednesday afternoon, will
probably be captured before morning.
Sheriff Griffith, with a posce of 20
men, has surrounded them at Buck
Aliens ranch, about 40 miles south
of Wagner, near the edge of the old
Fort Belknap reservation, on the west
fork of the Poutchett river. The
posse followed the bandits all yester-
day afternoon finding signs of them
where they crossed the Dry Fork.
Information received here from
Hayre is that neither Travelling Audi
tor Douglass. of Clancy, Montana, or
Brakeman Whteside was hit in the
fusillade from the bandits at the time
of the robbery.
Gertrude NJ. Smith, of Tomah, Wis,
passenger in the tourist car, who
was shot in the arm, was attended by
a surgeon who found that she had
sustained only flesh wound. This
was treated and bandaged and she
continued her journey to Seattle.
1t is probable that the estimate of
the loss of $4,000 is somewhat eX-
cessive. 1t is probable not over $70,-
600 was secured. Information con-
cerning the consignee of the money
in the through safe is obtainable. II
is understood that a considerable part
of the money was in the shipments
west from Chicago banks and other
financial institutions.