The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-08

hall, where an inquest Will be held
Glow lived ct Livingston, where he has
a wife and son. He was So years old
and had been In service with the Nor
thern Pacific eighteen years.
The Northen Pacific company Is send
ing officers to the scene OF the hold
up on the special train. A special train
from Deer Lodge. with seven blood
hounds from the penitsntiary there
their keeper. who has had experience
in trailing train robbers. and Sheriff
Fenner OF Deer Lodge county. passed
through here st o'clock this morning
men from the Butte police department
with horses Arriving at the scene al
hour later, the dogs were put On the
tran and at latest accounts were fol-
lowing 1t.
On Summit of Mountains.
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
not settled. 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. Officers be-
lieve that the men are trying to get
back into Butte. The party with blood
hounds were Joined at WEIGH by R. II.
Goddard. chief Of the Northern Pacific
detectives at Livingston; Deputy Sher-
if James Keown of Gallatin county and
by James Latta of Bohemian. The lat
ter two men were the men who tracked
and captured Ike" Gravelle, the man
who tried TO force the Northern Pacific
Railroad company TO pay him $50, 600
blackmail. A reward will be offered
by the railroad company for the cap
ture of the men.
Story of Fireman.
Fireman Sullivan was interviewed in
Livingston at noon today by the corre-
spondent Of the Inter-Mountain. Sui
Ivan was shot through the right arm
and not seriously wounded.
He says that the train was eoasting
a short distance west OF Welchs spur,
when two masked men, young and Wig
orous, weighing about $50 pounds each
and with masks over their faces,
climbed onto the tender. Evidently
they had been hiding between the ten
der and the express car since the train
had left Butte.
The robbers cried Hands up" and
both trainmen instantly obeyed. With
out warning. one of the murderers fired,
instantly killing Glow, who had made
no resistance beyond turning on the
airbrakes. A second later the other
robber shot Sullivan in the arm
Sullivan fell to the floor, feigning
death. The robber fired on him twice,
but missed. and then, as the train came
to stop, leaped from the tender and
ran westward on the track. This SulH-
van saw clearly.
Dead Engineer a Hero.
Had not Glow turned on the air
brakes, il is very probable that the
robbers would have entered the express
car, as. the roar of the train had
drowned the sound of their shots; but
the remainder of the crew We're aroused
by the sudden stopping Of the train and
poured out of the express car, in COM
pany with Sheriff Webb. Seeing that
the game was up, the bandits fled.
CLOVIS last heroic act probably saved
hundreds of lives. The grade at Welch,
itself on the top of the divide, is very
steep and the curve incessant. Had
both men in the cab fallen before the
brakes were put on, the express train
undoubtedly have attained a rate of
speed sufficient to jump the track and
plunge into the canyon.