The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-04
TWO BANDITS HOLD
 UP LIMITED TRAIN
Passengers Are Robbed of All
 Their Valuables
A POSSE IS IN PURSUIT
uasked Men stop the Train and While One Holds the Train Crew the Other Goes Through the
 Coaches

l Ogden, Utah, January 3.-Southern
 Pacific train No. l, the Overland Lim-
 ited westbound, was held up by two
 masked bandits at an early hour this
 morning at Rees, nine miles west Of l ogden. One negro porter. William Da-
 wis, was shot and instantly killed, ana
 another porter, A. w. Taylor, was nor l tally wounded. A passenger was slight 1 ly wounded. One hundred passengers on the train were relieved of their valuables. The robbers did not at tempt to enter the express car, but de-
 voted their entire attention to the Pull man, where they made rich haul among the California bound passengers, holding the train for more than an hour The train proceeded westward, and no passengers escaped the robbers.
 The trainmen also lost their money and jewelry.
 At 12:30 this morning Conductor Gun ningham advised the superintendent's s
 office at this place of the hold-up The sheriff and police department were inn mediately notified and posses left the for scene of the hold-up in automobiles and on a special train. Posses from nearby towns are working toward Rees.
 Two masked men stopped the train at the little watering station by throw ing the red light on the signal stand toward the approaching locomotive.
 As it came to a standstill the ban dits covered the engineer and fireman with their revolvers and held them un- til the conductor rushed up to inves- tigate the delay. He, too, was placed under guard
 One of the robbers left the trainmen in charge of his companion and start ed through the train from the forward end. He encountered two porters on his way and when they disregarded his commands he shot one down and wounded another. A curious passenger was also wounded. The shots aroused the occupants of the cars and when the holdup man appeared with an open sack and menacing pistol the passen- gers were perfectly willing to contri- bute to his collection. He went through the entire train, stopping at every berth and making a deliberate search. after completing their work the rob bers drove away in vehicle.
 About four miles from Rees they met two girls, who were returning home from a dance. One of the robbers very politely requested them to hand over their purses and to beat it. All though frightened, the girls succeeded in getting a good description of the bandits which tallied with that fur nished by the passengers and train crew
 After robbing the two girls, the daughters of Bishop Waymont, of the Mormon church at Warren, the high waymen drove toward the city. Early this morning no report had been re- ceived from the five posses that are now in the field.
 Although private detectives sheriffs and the police of Salt Lake, Weber and Box Elder counties worked on the case all day, the men were not found. The South ern Pacific probably will offer a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the crim- inals A similar reward is now standing for the arrest of two bandits who held up an Oregan Short Line train three miles north of Ogden June 27, 1910.
 Because of the skill of the Rees bandits in directing the train crews in handling the train, railroad officers are convinced that the robbers are railroad men. The bandits not only displayed a knowledge of automatic signal apparatus, but alse showed that they are informed in the method of operation of trains by the Southern Pacific.
 The semaphore with which they halted the train was ingeniously tempered with. The lock on the box was broken, the door opened and a match inserted so as to pre- vent the copper contacts from touching, thereby throwing the signal in the block and stopping the train.