Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-05-14
engineer IS SLAIN
BY train ROBBERS
PAIR OF DARING BANDITS HOLD
UP NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN
NEAR BUTTE, MONT.
MAN AT THROTTLE
RESiSTS; MURDERED
Masked Men Immediately Make
Their Escape Without Attempting
to Get cash-sheriff and Blood.
hounds Take Up Trail.

Butte, Mont, May S.-The North
Coast Limited, east-bound train No
az on the Northern Pacific railway.
was held up by two masked men near
Welch's Spur, siding Is miles east
of Butte at 2:15 Tuesday morning.
Engineer James Glow was shot and
Killed and Fireman James Sullivan
was shot through the arm. Without
making an attempt to blow up the ex.
press car, as was evidently intended.
the robbers jumped from the engine
and ran down the mountain-side, dis.
appearing in gulch several hundred
yards from the track.
Sheriff Starts on Trail
Sheriff Henderson of Butte was
notified and, with a posse, left on a
train for the scene of the hold-up.
Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone county,
was on the train and, with one of the
train crew, started on the trail of the
hold-up men five minutes after the
shooting. He trailed the men half
mile and after picking up their masks,
lost all tracks of the bandits.
On the tender of the locomotive was
found telescope grip full of giant
powder, evidently intended for use in
blowing up the express car The men
boarded the train presumably at the
Butte transfer, where a locomotive for
the Montana division was attached.
One mile west of WEIGH the men
crawled over the tender and, with
drawn guns, commanded the engineer
to stop the train, which he did. En-.
gineer Glow, however, made show
of resistance and one of the robbers
fired, shooting him through the body.
killing him instantly. The other man
shot at Sullivan, breaking his arm.
Negro Tells of Hold-Up.
When the train stopped Conductor
Bert Culver and the train crew ran
to the engine, where they found
colored man, who related the circum-
stances of the hold-up. This man
said that he had been stealing ride
and that the men offered him third
of the booty" if he would assist
them. He said he had refused and
had taken no part in the hold-up. He
says he can identify the robbers, and
pose.
The body of Glow was taken to
Whitehall, where an inquest will be
held Glow lived at Livingston, where
he leaves widow and son. He was
IS years old and had been in the serv-
ice of the Northern Pacific is years.
The Northern Pacific is sending
special trains from Deer Lodge to the
scene, carrying officers as we'll as
seven bloodhounds from the peniten-
tiary. Sheriff Fenner of Deer Lodge
county was joined at WEIGH by men
from the Butte police department
with horses. At later accounts the
dogs had struck the trail and were
following it.
Scene of Crime Is Wild.
The country where the hold-up took
place is extremely rough, being six
miles from the summit of the main
range of the Rocky mountains. 1t is
unsettled and the trail is not likely
to be crossed by other men on foot,
so that the bloodhounds will have a
fair chance to track the men. Off
GERS believe that the men are trying
to get back to Butte. The party with
bloodhounds was joined at WEIGH by
r. H. Goddard, chief of the Northern
Pacific detectives at Livingston; Dep
uty Sheriff James Keen of Gallatin
county, and by James Latta of Boze-
man. Keen and Latta are the men
who tracked and captured ike"
Gravelle, who, some time ago tried to
force the Northern Pacific Railroad
company to pay him $4,000 black
mail.
A reward will be offered by the rail-
road company for the capture of the