The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-05
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS
,oxTANA MEN GOT AWAY WITH
OVER $4,000.
Mn THE WORK IN DAYLIGHT.
xow SURROUNDED AND LIKELY TO
BE CAPTURED.

-. co~xpunchers, One of Them a
uoIfbreed, Put Up a Very Cool Job
=. wagner, MOnt.-Held Up the
Train. wounded Five Railroad Men
d passengers and Then Dyna-
tod the safc-Identified by Their
uorses They Are Now Surrounded
at Ranch.
9. Paul. July "A Great Falls, Mont,
-oec,al TO the Pioneer Press says:
The Great Northern trans-continental
vain No. 8, leaving St. Paul Tuesday
corning at o'clock. was held up at
WAGNER Mont, 1876 miles east.of Great
1ous at $50 Wednesday afternoon by
.brae masked men who blew open the
oxnress car and wrecked the through safe
with dynamite, securing $4,000.
Tho robbery in daylight, was one of
.be boldest that has ever occurred in the
West.
one of the robbers boarded the blind
naogage'' car at HinsdaIe, station about
+van+v miles east of Wagner. He APP
,aored 10 be a common hobo. but when
the conductor discovered him at stop
almost Immediately afterward he drew
y heavy Colts revolver and ordered him
~ return to the rear of the train On
oenalty Of instant death. The hobo then
climbed over the locomotive tender, and
at the the point of his revolver COM
pelled the engineer and fireman to stop
the train at ravine few miles east
Of Wagner, where his confederates, two
in number both masked, lay in wait. The
hobo then compelled the fireman and en-
qineer to abandon the engine and firing
began on both sides of the train as it
came to a stop.
Passengers on the train began to look
out of the windows and a brakeman
aHghted on one side of the train, while
Travelling Auditor Douglas algh&sd on the
opposite side. Both instantly became the
target of Winchesters in the hands of the
robbers and were wounded. A passenger
or the tourist coach, who was looking out
of the window, was struck by stray bull
let and seriously injured. Two other pas
sengers were shot, but neither was Sc
riousy injured.
Had Plenty of Dynamite.
To wreck the door of the express car
with dynamite, with which both the con-
federates that appeared from the ravine
were literally supplied, was the work of
an instant. The expressman was compell-
ed 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 success
sion We're necessary before it was forced.
The robbers hurriedly gathered in its con-
tents consisting of specie shipments,
drafts, coin and valuable negotiable pa
pers and retreated, 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 southwark at a flu
rous gait, the booty being plainly visible
an a sack thrown across the saddle bows
OF the rider upon the buckskin horse.
As the hobo climbed over the tender to
the locomotive cab he drew on a mask
rendering it almost impossible to secure
a good description. Each of his confed-
crates was masked and the only infor-
nation ottainable regarding them is
that one was evidently half-breed.
This was the robber upon the buckskin
morse. The gang headed for the Little
rockies range. lying across the Milk
river in an almost inaccessible country,
consisting mainly of bad lands. Posses
We're Immediately organized in pursuit,
one by a sheriff who happened to be a
passenger on the train.