The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-09
MASKED ROBBERS
HOLD UP TRAIN
r- 49,
Car Grew Helpless, Watch
Bandits Dynamite.
ONE BRAKEMAN IS SHOT
ARRIVING IN
CITY TELL OF ADVENTURE.
ONE BRAKEMAN IS SHOT

n ENNEH Colo. June S-The Rio
ii Grande passenger train No. s.
westbound from Denver. was held
up 10y five masked men three miles west
OF Parachute. a fruit station midway
between Grand Junction and CIenwood
Springs. One sealed bag containing
specie was taken from me express safe,
winch was dynamited. The express
car was badly wrecked by dynamite,
but the robbers were forced to take to
the mountains before they cOuId gather
up the valuables i'm the car
Sheriff W. @. Struthers and Deputy
Sherln ID. n. Hardy of Grand june
ton are now upon the trail OF the rob
bers with posse of farmers and
ldncheTS, who were quickly summoned
ffom the vicinity of Grand Junction.
Sheriff Frank Adams, with another
posse from GlenWoOd Springs. is also
securing the surrounding country.
When the train reached point three
miles west of Paraehute-last night two
lhas4ied men -craWled OVerIhe tender of
the engine. They placed siX-shOoters
10 the head Of Engineer Allison and his
fireman and demanded that the train
De stopped. Three men were waiting on
the tender and as the train stopped
they quickly ran back and unc0upled
cars, with the engine, were run two
miles further west
The members of the train crew were or
dered TO remain with the passenger
coaches on pain of being shot When
the point selected for the dyuamitinE Of
the express car was reached, the engineer
ana fireman were ordered down. one OF
the robbers covered them with two six
shooters. The remainder of the sang
went TO the express car.
Mnueauorar C+eg4Te paE
Messenger ID. A. Shea Of Denver re-
piled the baggage OF the car mp to the
'front.' or the car. Ila robbers placed a.
suck q dynamite at the side door of tho
car The entire door was blown away
with terrible crash, Half "a dozen
trunks which had been piled up against
the door were demolished and their burn
ING contents scattered over the car
The great iron combination safe was the
only one iu the car Tile robbers showed
tlat they were cuuFcrsant with coudi-
lions ON the road for they did not even
They knew that he did not have the
combination This safe can be opened
only I'm Denver and I'm salt Lake.
stick OF dynamite was placed against
the lock of the safe Here again the rob
bers showed their disregard of dynamite.
HAT the explosive would have done the
Brakeman is Shot.
Just at this point Brakeman shelIenbar-
ger. who had been ordered TO remain
with the passenger coaches two miles be-
mind. came running up the track carry
ing lantern one of the robbers shot
at him. lie was wounded ire the leg aud
is now in the Sisters hospital AT Grand
Junction
When the robbers saw tHat the train
crew were coming they fled 10 the noun
taiu=. one of them aS be jumped from
the express ear grabbed one sealed bag
which had been blown clear out of the
safe This was the only plumber which
was taken
yards from the Grand river. ana
it IS believed that the robbers had
q boat hidden i'm the Grand and that they
used this TO cross the river destroying
who held mp the Rio Grande train az
lnaWeep year ago escaped in a similar
manner.
Sheriff struthers believes that The rob
hers ESCAPED ON horseback after crossing
the Grand.
Bandits Head North
4 posse under Deputy Sheriff Cohn of
Grand Junction followed the course of
the river until il reached Rifle. There
they discovered the trait of the robbers.
iudlca tIous showing that they must have
passed the point but few hours before
Tt is believed that the bandits are
heading for the Hole in the VAIL C0un-
that but $40 was secured iE the hOldup.
This is accounted for bV the fact that
only small sums of money are ever car
Tied by the train that was robbed. All
large shipments are sent over the Colo
RADIO Midland train that preCCdCS The Rio
Grdnde train several minutes. running ON
the Rio Graude tracks. on the occasion
OF the hoidup the Colorado Midland train
Rio GraUde train had seven iu an. Tt
is thought that this confused the bandits.