The daily sentinel., 1906-10-17
A TRAIN
HELD UP
NEAR LEADVILLE
Rio Grande No. S, Second
Section, Stopped by Mask
Men---Failed to Get Any
Booty---Daring Attempt.

daring attempt was made about
eight O'Clock last night by two
men to hold up the second section
of Rio Grande passenger train No. :
otherwise known as the Pacific eN
press, just west of Leadville juno
tion, about five miles from Lcadville
That the robbery was not success.
ful was due mainly to the fact that
the hold ups were novices In the art
and that their plans miscarried.
They failed to blow up the safe and
were said TO have secured only 80 or
30 cents.
by mistalSing the second section of
the west bound ID. & II. C. express
which was held up and robbed last
fnigh for the first section, which had
passed, the robbers missed treasure
safe that is said TO have contained
many thousands of dollars In gold
and currency.
The attempt was almost wholly un-
successful.
sheriff Mahoney, of Leadyille with
n possee of ten heavily armed men,
spent several hours last night trying
to find the trail of the bandits but
owing To darlcnss could do nothing.
The posse returned to Leadvillc
| and took the train out at day i2ht
this morning. Nothing has been
heard from the man hunters up to
noon.
-, - n rie;uis a.,..,i. i.i.i.i. .hnn,vn In
| Grand junction, was the messenger
in charge OF the car. He was in Grand
Junction last night going out again
this morning. He told the particu--
lars of the holdup to several friends
in this city He stated that on en-
tering the car the men covered him
with guns and made him lay upon
the floor of the carr. The floor was
wet as some iced boxes containing
fish had leaked and Howland ask
ed to be allowed to lay on trunk but
the holdups would not stand for this
and he had to lay in the water. He
stated that he did not recognize the
men and was powerless to do any
thing. As their dynamite charges
would not work they secured no
booty.
The details of the holdup are given
as follows in a Leadyille dispatch
The second section left Sallda in
charge of Conductor Conway. Engi-
neer Bill Campbell and Fireman
Thomas Brown 1t was about three
hours late when Leadvllle Junction
was reached. short distance west
of the section two masked men climb
ell over the back of the tender and
with drawn revolvers to emphasize
their demands ordered the engineer
and fireman to throw up their hands.
| Engineer Campbell was then told to
lower his hands and stop the train.
This being done one of the masked
men ordered the fireman to go back
with him and uncouple the express
car which was the first car back of
the engine. This was done SO quick
Is that the rest of the crew were bare
ly aware of the stopping of the train
before the robber who remained with
lhe engineer ordered him to go a.
head under pain of death The sec
ond robber and the fireman in the
meantime having jumped aboard the
rear end of the expresscar. Three
Kildare. There is siding at that
| point and a freight train in charge
of Conductor Powers was on the side
| ing waiting for No. to pass when
| the engine and express car flashed
by. Conductor Powers took in the
operator as well he ran to the box and
| notified the train dispatcher at San
ia of the hold up.
! A mile west of Kildare the engine
was stopped and covering Campbell
and Brown with their revolvers the
robbers marched them back to the ex-
press car and raped on the door. The
| express messenger refused to open
the door at first and not until the
robbers threatened to make short
work of the engineer and the fireman
did he finally open the door in or
der to save their lives.
The holdups attempted to blow open
the safe after they demanded that the
messenger open it for them and ht
told them he did not have the key.
| Dynamite was the explo1:e ev.1e-.,
ly used but the attempt Was 4 fa,,.i.,
The men were extremely neryou5 al
ter the failure to reach the contents
OF the safe and afr securing what few
| toosa na clio gae In tho nnesanPer'a NOS