Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-20

big guns were showed in my face and
one Of the robbers hissed, Not by a
d sight, and don't you move
~ saw they meant business and
that they had Conductor Wheeler and
the sleeping car porter in the same
fix, so I was not slow in getting my
hands up. They had already searched
Conductor Wheeler and at the point
of revolvers ordered him to look out
the window,
"They took our keys, locked the
cars. and one Of them held us at bay
while the other two went through the
sleeping and observation cars, COM
pelling the passengers to shell out.
Entering the sleeping car. one of them
fired a shot downward to wake up the
passengers. This bullet went through
a certain berth and just missed strik-
ing the head of man sleeping there.
Climbed to Ensi~e.
After searching the passengers.
from which they secured about $500
in money and jewelry, they left one
man guarding us while the other two
climbed out of the dining car onto the
baggage and mail cars and over these
to the engine, where they dropped
down on Engineer Olson and com
manded him to stop in order that they
might get off. Mr. Olson put up q
fight and it was then he was shot, one
bullet striking his watch and the other
striking a rib. Eoth bullets glanced
and this alone saved the life of the
plucky man.
"When Olson was injured he had to
give in and stop the train and the
bandits. jumping off. hurried to an
and escaped in the dark
ness.
Description Of Bandits.
"The men are of medium size and
all wore polka dot handkerchiefs as
masks. | could not tell much about
their features, as only their eyes were
visible. All wore caps alike and in
getting away one lost his cap, which
was taken to Fargo and turned over
to the sheriff. Two bullets, one Of
which was fired at the engineer and
the other in the sleeping car, were
picked up and were also turned over
to the sheriff.
at was certainly some experience,
ended brakeman Miller "and | hope |
" nl never have to experience such
thing again. | was not much fright
ened, for the thing came on us so sud-
denly that there was not much time
for that
BUFFALO, n. D.. July 20.-There
were but three men and the auto drlV-
er mixed up in last nights hold-up OF
Northern Pacific passenger train NO.
2 near this station. and from the de-
scription given they must nave been
although tley showed
boldness sufficient to brand them as
despe,adoes. The three men who
boarded the train were dressed as
farm labCrers wearing hickory shirts
and overalls. Their language was
uncouth and their manner not such
IS characterizes the average train
'obber of the old school.
The Pullman conductors were the
irst victims, losing their diamond
studs, watches and about $40 in cash.
After being searched the conduc.
ors were locked in a closet and the
hr2e robbers begin in a very cool and
nethOdical manner to go through tho
beginning with he obser-
alton car and working forward to
he engine, where they ordered the en-.
,ineer to stop, but instead he turned
N full head Of steam. then one of
he robbers shot the engineer twice,
me bullet glancing off his watch and
he other glancing a rib, one steel
Dated bullet falling out of his vest
1hen opened. The train was stopped
when the robbers
ropped Off The affair was reported
t the depot and dispatched to Fargo,
'here a special train was made up
onsisting of the sheriff. deputies and
abroad detectives who are securing
he country and halting all suspicious
haracters and having them give an
ccount of themselves. The three
obbers boarded the observation car
Valley City and were masked with
lue polka dotted handkerchiefs and
'ore blue Jackets and overalls. Two
ere about six feet tall and the third
ne short and stout. They have es-
aped to the country. as no trace of
hem can We found in the village.
Vord has just reached here that some
ired men had been inquiri:g yester-
ay if the train robbery had been
ulled off yet. showing that the affair