The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-05
DETAILS OF TRAIN ROBBERY.
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 St. Paul, Minn., July 4.--A Grea' Fails, Mont, special to the Pioneer Press. says: "The Great Northern trans-continental train, No. 3, leaving St. Paul Tuesday morning at o'clock was held up at Wagner, Mont, lSt miles east of Great Falls at 3:2O yes terday afternoon by three masked mef who blew open the express car ant wrecked the through safe with dyna' mite, securing 5000. The robbery in daylight, was one of the boldest tha' has ever occurred in the west
 lA dispatch to the Associated Press from Havre, Mont, gives the following account of the robbery and the names of the persons shot by the robbers.
 The injured: Gertrude M Smith oi Tomah, Wisconsin. passenger who leaned from Q window, received a bullet through the right arm, but is net seriously hurt; pr Douglas of Ciancey, Mont, travelling auditor for the Montana division of the Great Northern, shot through left arm near shoulder, only a flesh wound; Broke man Whiteside of Havre. Mont, shot through right arm, near shoulder, shat tering the bone, seriously injured.
 As the train was leaving Malta Con- ductor Smith noticed what he supposed to be a trarap on the front end of tho mail car next to the engine. He tried 10 drive him eff after the train started, but the man pulled revolver and said he had better go back or he would shoot. The conductor returned to the coaches. and as Sheriff Griffith of Val ley county was on the train, arranged with him to arrest the man at the next siding.
 When the train approached Exeter, the next siding west of Malta, the con- ductor signalled the engineer to stop, but the train only slackened speed. The conductor signalled g second time, but the train did not stop. Engineer Jones was during this time covered by a gun and was told by the tramp that if the train stopped he would kill him. When the train reached a point three miles east of Wagner the engineer was forced to stop and two other men ap- peared armed with Winchester's The robbers commenced firing and the pas sengers at first thought children were celebrating the Fourth Brakeman Whteside of Havre, Mont. got off the rear end of the train and was shot through the right arm near the shoul- der, shatterlng the bone. Mir Douglass of Clancy, Mont, auditor of the Great Northern Montana division. swung out on the steps on the southe side of the car and was shot through the left arm tGs cINn flesh wound.
 Gertrude M. Smith. of Tomah Wis, bound for Seattle, leaned out of a window and was shot in the right arm, but not seriously injured. Conductor Smith notified all passengers as fast as he could go through the train to keep out of sight, which they did by getting down in the aisle of the cars.
 To wreck the door of the express car with dynamite, with which both the that appeared from the ravine were liebrally supplied, was the work of an instant The expressmen were compelled to leave the car at the point of a rifle 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 rob bers hurriedly gathered in it's contents, consisting of specie shipments. drafts, coin and valuable negotiable paper and keeping the train crew and passengers off at the point of their rifles.
 All three disappeared in the ravne n, lat toH 01,ka bay horse. one upon a white horse, one upon q buckskin, heading southward 1t furious gait, the booty being plain y visible in a sack thrown across the saddle bows of the rider upon the buck skin borse
 A sheep herder riding about a quar- ter of a mile from where the express 'ar was blown up was fired upon by the robbers. The bullet struck his sadie, but did not infict any serious wound. The sheep herder reported the robbery 1t Wagner station about 3;35, and a posse of men from Malta, twelve miles rom the scene of the robbery and a posse of men from Glasgow, Mont, sev- ,nty-five miles east, started within f1f- cen minutes by special train. A spe- ,ial train was also started from Havre with doctors to attend the wounded,
 Upon receipt of the news of the hold ID, reward of S5,000 in gold for the of the robbers, was at ,nce posted by the Great Northern of icials. All the facts in the case were 1t once communicated to David All nan, chief of the Great Northern se- ret service. The large amount of the 'eWard offered is taken as evidence hat the booty was heavy, but the ex- ,ct amount taken has not been given ut. News of the robbery and the reward vas wired to all the principal points on he line and the police and detective orce of all the important points in the territory were notified Helena, Mont, July At is stated | lere that the three men who held up | he Great Northern railroad train near | Ialta. yesterday, secured S4o,oOO in ash, in addition to securities of con- | iderable value.
 The robbers did not attempt to go | trough the passenger coaches.
 
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