Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-21


Northern Pacific passenger tral
known as the North Coast limited
here Thursday morning. The thre
suspects held here are believed to b
innocent and the theory that the OF
tenders escaped in an automobile ha
been exploded. Many here hold t.
the belief that the robbers escapes
on the same train they held up.
1t seems incredible that they coul'
have escaped by wagon or on foot, 10
the coutnrymen were at once alarmed
for miles around.
Many theories are advanced and ex
ploded in the light of reason.
Olson Doing Nicely.
Sam Olson, the plucky engineer
who nut up such stiff fight against
the train robbers, is at his home III
Fargo and getting along nicely, ano
unless something unforeseen sets IN
will undoubtedly recover. He is feel
Ing exceedingly sore, but his injuries
are not at all dangerous and MS re-
covery is deemed certain. He says
that he did not realize he was injured
until the train had backed to Buffalo,
when he saw the blood and knew that
h chad been hurt At first he thought
that he was seriously injured, but
after a physician on the train mad
made a thorough examination he felt
all right.
From all over the state come re-
ports of suspects being held up, and
so far away as Paramount the sheriff
of that county has sent In an inquiry
for a full description of the three
men. This was sent him and the
same will be sent as rapidly as pos.
sible to all the towns of the north
west.
May Be in Fargo.
One of the officers who is working
on the great North Coast limited rob-
berry said last night:
II would not be at all surprised if
the three men who committed the
crime are in Fargo today. It would
have been possible for them to have
reached the city in some way before
daylight this morning, and there Is
no better place for them to hide than
right there. l believe the men held
up the limited had a pretty fair
knowledge of railroads in some ways,
but of course the fact that they did
not stop the train by the use of the
bell cord, OF rather the air signal,
would show that their knowledge is
limited.
1T is evident from the manner of
the execution of the robbery that the
parties who were engaged in it had a
pretty good plan arranged, and that,
it was well carried out. ! am sur
prised though that some one was not
killed in the fusilade Of shots that |
were fired. Certain it is that Engi- |
neer Olson and Fireman Graves were |
in great danger and that all members |
of the train crew were in deadly peril. |
The chances of catching them are
abotu even, for men as bold and sun
ming as these three men who CON- ,
mitted such daring robbery are not
at all likely to get themselves caught
easily.
ut is possible that the men under
arrest at Tolna may be- the men
wanted, but when it is known that
the story that they got away in
an auto was exploded so far as that
particular auto is concerned, there
is no telling what they may have
done. 1t is more than likely that
the first thing they would do would
be to separate and have stated
meeting place. Or it is possible that
they divided the spoils before separ-
ating and may not meet again for
weeks. 1t was a desperate deed by
desperate men, and I only hope that
they will be caught"
A Wanderers Story.
Percy Davis, native of Canada,
and Andrew Allen, travelling to Win
nipeg, had quite an exciting expert
ence during the train robbery. The
two boys were at Valley City and
were waiting there for the North
Coast limited, as they had decided to
get on either the tender or blind bag
gage. When the train pulled into Val
ley City the two goa aboard the rear
end of the engine. They did not pay
much attention to the circumstances
but afterwards when they were talk
ing to the fireman he remembered
seeing two men walking past the en-
CINE
Davis and Allen, at the request OF
the railroad company, went on to
Fargo, where they each told their
story to the states attorney, and
what they said was taken down.
Like good many other young fell
lows" said Davis, ALLEN and myself
were out of money, and wanting to
get to Canada, we decided to steal
ride, and We got on the rear end of
the engine and from there on to the
blind end of baggage car, and we
were just getting comfortably seated
when We saw some men sort of
crawling over the rear of the engine
towards us and sort of hunting
We saw that he had a gun
in his hand and we heard shcts and
want to tell you that We were al
most scared to death, and when the
train stopped We both got off and
ran sQuarely into two masked men,
each with gun in his hand. couldn't
gee what they had over their faces,
but it looked like something dark.
Zone of the men asked me what 1
was doing there and l told him l
guessed there was a hold-up of the
train and I was getting away from
the train, and he told me to get back
- quick, but went on and came
10 a farm house, where l routed a