Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-30
YOUTHFUL BANDITS
 HOLD UP TRAIN Spectacular Work of Mask ed Men Near Wirth.
 Okla. GOT SUM OF CASH Posses Searching Country For the Bold TIiO-Train Grew
 Held at Ray.
GOT SUM OF CASH

M1skogee, Okla, Oct. 29.=Three masked men, little more than boys, held up and robbed sou abound Kay train No. g, It Wirth, Okla, six miles south of Eufaula on the banks of the Canadian river.
 The bandits flagged dlwn the train as it rounded cLrce out ono a small trestle which they h9d set afire. Uncoupling he eng ne. express car and baggage car from the other roaches, they ordered the engineer to run < half mile fur her south, where the express safe was blown and ran sacked.
 Express officials declared this morning that they could no. tell the amount of lc-i and Tessed the be- lief hat it will amount to several thou sand dollars.
 Spectacular Robb'ng.
 The robbery was one of the most daring md spectacular ,.cld-ups con- mi ted in Oklahoma in recent years.
 w rth nestles in bend of the Can- a1ian river. Two trestles span the liver, oue short bri.7ge If about 9 feet carrying the railroad over a. slough, of backwater. A few feet be- | ycnd a trestle nf more than 200 feet s,re ches across the river. The road wind: around hillside in a sharp curve onto the first and smaller | trestle.
 It was at this curve, most strat- egetie point, that the hold-up oc- cured. The robbers had fimed the:r o11,an fo bo ,fo Mo g was running on time. The bandits I must have known this, fer as the train made .he curve, the bridge was already in flames. Three masked men standing in the glare of the fire flagged to a sop.
 Engine on Burning Bridge The locomotive had run on to the burning bridge before the brakes | could bring the train ito standstill. Although the flames tareatened to destroy the trestle before their work was accomplished. the bandits moved with deliberate coolness. Covering the engineer and fireman with their revolvers, they ordered them from the cab.
 Conductor J. A. Dolan leaped from a coach to ascertain why the train had stopped so suddenly. He was lined up beside the other two. Tie porter also fell a victim to his curosity and he was made to stand beside the conductor.
 While one bandit held the line, the other two uncoupled the engine, bag gage and express cars from the cosches. They then forced the train men into the cab and ordered the en- gineer to open the throttle. The en- zine pulling the two cars shot ahead over the burning bridge. It fell into the water a minute or so after the cars had passed The passenger coaches were left standing by the brink of the sream.
 A half mile on the other sides of the bridge the ban,d ts ordered the en- gineer to stop. They then blew the safe in the express car and ramsacked I it's contents Four charges were necessary to wreck the safe. The express car was badly damaged by 1 the explosions.
 Their work completed, the bandits put their loot into sacks and fled to | the vocd-covered hills The country that skirts the scene of the hold-up I is described by one of the trainmen as ''rretty much wooded bottom land with wilderness not far away" A few minutes after the robbers had | fled, Conductor Dolan ordered the en- l gineer to proceed ta Crowder, about six miles south. T'1ere he gave the first report of the robbery.
 Posses were immed asFely sent out from Crowder and Eufaula. Other posses left an hsur later on special
 trains from McAlester and Musko- gee.
 According to the declarations given all three of the bandits are under 25 years old.