The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-07-26
Hold Up TRAIN
The Bold Robbers Secure About Five
Hundred Dollars in Cas:a
MADE ESCAPE In AUTO
The Bandits, Three in Number, All
Wore Masks.-They Shot the En-
gineer Because He Failed to Stop
the Train When Ordered to Do

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The eastbound North Coast limi-
ted on the Northern Pacific, was held
up by three masked robbers near
Euffalo, n. D., about II O'Clock We'd
nesday night. The robbers secured
about $500 in cash by going through
the passengers and shot Engineer S.
P. Olsen Of Fargo twice in order to
make him stop the train, and made
a successful escape in an automobile
which they had awaiting them near
the scene of the robbery.
The holdup was the most daring
ever peEpetrated in that part OF the
country. The men were not anna
teurs, as everything was cleverly
planned and admirably executed.
When the train stopped at the high
bridge at Valley City, the three men
boarded it and went into the day
coach. Heavily armed and shooting
recklessly in order to intimidate the
passengers, they first lined up the
train crew at one end Of the car
and then proceeded to search the
passengers in the day coach.
In all they secured about $500
in this car. The sleeping car was
entered and in order to awaken the
occupants of the berthE a shot was
fred down the aisle, narrowly miss
ing the head of one Of the passen-
gers and embedding itself in the
woodwork.
After searching the occupants Of
the berths the robbers climbed out
of the diner over the baggage and
the express car to the engine, reach
ing that part Of the rain when near
Buffalo. Thy ordered Engineer Or
sen to stop the train so they could
get off, and when he refused to
comply two shots were fired directly
at him, one miraculously glancing
off his watch and the other striking
him on a rib, injuring him slightly.
After being wounded and seeing
that the men were desperate, Engi-
neer Olsen stopped the train and the
three masked men jumped from the
train and ran into the darkness.
After leaving the train the robbers
went to an automobile which they
had waiting nearby and flashed OF
into the darkness.
The train was run into Fargo,
where the sheriff, every available
deputy and three deputy United
States marshals hurried back on
special train to pursue the robbers.
DR.. j. ". Guest, of Louisville, who
occupied a berth in the sleeper rob-
bed, was relieved Of 500 in bank
checks. Dr.. Guest attended Olsen
the wounded engineer, and says his
wound is not serious, being hardly
more than a flesh. wound In the low
er left breast.
n. V. Mcmillan, also of Louisville,
occupied a berth next to DR.. Guests
and was robbed Of 500 in bank
checks and s6 in cash.
when the robber came to my
BERTH" said Or. Guest, 81 handed
him my pocket book containing sloU
in bank checks and my railroad tick
et He took the checks out ana
handed back the pocket book with
the railroad ticket Then he asked
if I did not have any cash and when
told him I had five dollars under
my pillow he said: dig it up. Just
at this moment he was attracted to
the berth opposite me, occupied by
a Mr.. Stark of Cincinnati, represen-
tative Of a harvester concern. He
relieved Stark of $50 in bank
checks, but forgot to bother me again
for the FIVE dollars. A remarkable
thing about the affair was that the
robbers passed up berth No. l3 en-
tirely.
Conductor Belgard, Of the sleeping
car fred from the first sleeper at the
desperate standing guard at the door
and it is believed that he hit him
In the shoulder. The robbers then
abandoned their work and made for
the head Of the train.