Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-08-13
The brakeman 4 I is shot.
Fred Stevens, a NorthernP Pacific Brake
man, Shot and Wounded BY a
Hobo Last Night.
Had Put Several Hobos off the Train
and One Of them Shot Him
with Revolver.
Hobo Escapes in Darkness-Stevens
is Taken to the Hospital at
Brainerd.

~ 10 AIKEN TO tue hospital At
Brainerd.
Fred Stevens, a Northern Pacific
brakeman on train No. 4,fwhich passed
through Bismarck at 10 O'Clock Tues.
day night, was shot and dangerously
wounded by "a hobo whom he had
elected from the train. The shooting
took place after the train had left the
station and pulled east beyondit the old
cold storage building. Conductor
Worden was in charge of the train, and
a gang of five hobos had boarded the
train here, among them "a couple Of
colored men. When the train had
left the city a little distance, it slowed
up and Stevens routed the hobos from
their resting place and put them off
the train. When the men reached the
ground. one Of them, &whom Stevens
identified as one of the coons, pulled a
gun and shot four times at the: brake;
man. The gun was a large calibre,
believed to be a A. Two of the bull
lets took effect, and Stevens dropped
like a log. One of them pierced his
hand, making a nasty wound, and the
other and more serious wound passed
through the upper part of the thigh,
breaking the thigh bone. and infict-
ing a jagged flesh wound also.
The wounded brakeman was picked
UP by his fellows of the train crew and
taken into the baggage car. and the
train backed at once to the city. where
DR.. SmYth, the railroad surgeon, was
summoned. The extent Of Stevens
injuries was not known until the doc
tor made his examination and it was
feared he had been fatally injured.
Dr.. Smyth dressed the injured mans
wounds, which were exceedingly pain
full, and the brakeman was able to give
his account Of the shooting,-whieh was
about as given above: ahe, man who
fired the shots, he said, was afcolored
man. The train remained sat the sta
ton for about half an hour, and then.
proceeded. Stevens was takensto the
hospital at Brainerd for treatment, ,ac-
companied. by DR.. F. R.. Smyth.
Stevens's injuries are serious, the
dangerous wound being the n that
broke the thigh bone. It is not be
levied the wounds will prove fatal, IN
less some complication sets in.
There was considerable excitement
about the depot when the shots were
heard and the train pulled back to the
station,sand a large crowd gathered to
learn the details of the shooting AS
soon as the shots were fired the gang
of hobos scattered and the man who
did the shooting, with his comrades.
disappeared.
Stevens is "a we'll known brakeman
on the Northern Pacific. He has been.
a passenger brakeman for a number Of
years. In appearance he is tall and
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slim. dark complexioned with a dark
moustache.
After the shooting last night Sheriff
Bogue made a search of the stock
yards district and rounded up four of
the men who were with the mar who
fired the shots. They claimed they
had nothing in common With him, and
had seen him first at Mandan, when all
of them caught a stocktrain over to
the city. They also stated that the
coon there displayed a revolver and
said if any conductor or brakeman
tried to put him off the train he would
make it hot for them. They Joined
with the sheriff last night in a search
for the man wanted, but it was impos-
sible to find him. He is described as
short and rather stout, colored, and
wore a small cap. The local author
tiles are endeavoring to get track of
the man and the railroad company will
also make a special effort to round him
up.