The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-07
TRAIN HELD UP.
North Coast Limited Is Stopped
Near Butte, Mont.
1t Carried Much Money But
None Is Lost.
ENGINEER is KILLED.
Officers With BlOOdhOunds Are
After the Bandits.
Fourth Time for Same Train i'm
Three Years.
ENGINEER is KILLED.

| Northern Pacific, has been held up al
Welch Spur about Is miles east of this
| city and the engineer killed. The sher-
| ifs office has just been notified of the
robbery and officers are now prepar-
ing to leave for the scene.
! The object of the robbers, it is pre-
sumed, was to secure the contents OF
the through safe carrying consign-
| mentS of currency from Seattle Port
| land and Spokane to eastern points
| The bloodhounds of the penitentiary
will be wired for.
| This is the fourth time the North
Coast eastbound has been held up in
! three years. The other three times this
train was robbed near Bear Mouth,
about so miles west of here. This morn
1ngs holdup is near the scene of the
robbery of the Burlington flyer two
years ago in a section of country very
rough and mountainous.
| The North Coast limited was held up
! by two masked men.
| Engineer James Glow was shot and
| killed and Fireman James Sullivan was
| shot through the arm. Without making
| an attempt to blow up the express car
| as was eyidenly intended, the two rob-
! bers jumped from the engine and ran
| down the mountain side, disappearing
| in a gulch several hundred yards from
the track
Sheriff Henderson of Butte was noti-
fled and with posse left on a train at
o'clock for the scene of the holdup.
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 a
mile and after picking up their masks
lost all track of the bandits.
On the tender of the locomotive was
a 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 trans
fer. where a locomotive for the Mon
tana division was attached. One mile
west of Welch the men crawled over
the tender and with drawn guns COM
manded the engineer to stop the train,
which he did.
Engineer Glow. however. made a 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.
When the train stopped, Conductor
Bert Culver and the train crew ran to
the engine, where they found a colored
man. who related the circumstances of
the holdup. This man said that he had
been stealing a ride and that the men
offered him a third of the booty if he
would assist them. He said he had re-
fused and had taken no part in the
holdup. He says he. can identify the
robbers, and the man is being held for
this purpose.
The body of Glow was taken to White
Hall, where an inquest will be held.
Glow lived at Livingston, where he
has wife and son. He wa. 55 years
old and had been in the service of the
Northern Pacific Is years.
The Northern Pacific is sending Off
GERS to the scene of the holdup on a
special train from Deer Lodge, which
also carries seven blOodhounds from the
penitentiary there. Sheriff Fenner OF
Deer Lodge county is at Welch, where
he was Joined by men from the Butte
police department with horses. At last
reports the dogs had struck the trail
and followed it.
The country where the holdup took
place is extremely rough, being six miles
from the summit of the main range of
the Rocky mountains. 1t is not settled
and it is supposed the other men will
go on foot so that the bloodhounds will
have a fair chance to track the men.
Officers believe that they are trying. to
get back to Butte. The party with
by r. H. Good. chief of the Northern
Pacific detectives at Livingston, Dep
uty Sheriff James Keon of Gallin coun-
tv and by James Latta, of Boseman.
The latter two men were the men who
tracked and captured Ike Gravel, the
man who tried to force the Northern
Pacific railroad company to pay him
$4,000 blackmail.
A reward will be offered by the rail-
road company for the capture of the
men.
Hounds on the Trail.
Butte, Mont, May IA special train
from Deer Lodge with deputy sheriffs
aboard, mas left here for Welsh's spur,
where the eaStbound North Coast limi-
ted was held up early In the day by
masked men and the engineer murder
ed.
Bloodhounds from the state peniten-
tiary at Deer Lodge are on the special
and the hounds We're put to the trail
at 8 o'clock Welch's spur is Is miles
from Butte and in some of the widest
country in the Rocky mountains. 1t
may be hours before the posse with the
dogs reaches a telegraph station.
Got No Money.
ST. Paul, Mimi, May General
Manager Horn of the Northern Pacific
railway gave out the following state
ment on the attempt to rob the North
Coast limited near Butte, Mont, early
today:
mo. %. eastbound, North Coast
limited, Engineer Frank Glow and
Conductor Culver, was held up on the
east side of Butte mountain, about 16
miles east of Butte. Mont, by two or
more men who shot and killed the en-
gineer and shot the fireman through
The arm They did some more shoot
ing but evidently became alarmed ana
left.
ssSheriff Webb of Billings was on the
train and started on the trail of the
hoIdup men. Bloodhounds from the
Deer Lodge penitentiary have been
put on their trail also and we expect
to get the men. Engineer Glow had
been running that train for eight years
ever since the limited was put into SER
vice.
s.The robbers did not get any money.
While this road has had several hold
ups in that vicinity in the past 10l