The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-07-19

robbers, one armed with Win.
chester rifle and the other with a
revolved, leaped over the tender OF
the engine, and covered Engineer
Wickland and Fireman McDermott
with their weapons and demanded
that they stop the train Immediately
The engineer brought the train
to a standstill and he and the fire.
man were ordered to climb down
off the engine and go with the rob-
bers to the Wells-Fargo express
car and have the messenger open
the door.
Messenger Hughes, who was in
charge of the car, refused to do SO
and Immediately extinguished the
lights in the car, and securing his
rifle he prepared to do battle with
the robbers, but he dared not shoot
for fear he would hit the engineer
or fireman, who were with the rob-
bers outside the car.
Seeing that the messenger was
not going to open the door the
robbers blew it open with small
charge of dynamite and told the
messenger to come out or they
would kill him. Seeing that resist
ence was useless he did so. One of
the robbers then went into the car
and put heavy charge of dynamite
on top of the safe and lighted the
fuse. The engineer, fireman, ex-
press messenger and the two robbers
then retired to the engine, some
distance away. The explosion was
terrific. The safe was blown open
and the interior of the car and
everything in it completely demol-
ished.
After the explosion the party
went back to the car and one Of
the robbers went inside and gath
cred up what money and valuables
he could find and put them in a
sack, but the amount of money and
the valuables he got away with is
not known, as the safe is locked in
San Francisco and is not opened
until the car arrives in Ogden. The
nation or what the safe contains.
Yesterday afternoon a Red Cross
society was organized by Mrs. G. B.
Alderman of this place. The meet
ing was held at the courthouse, and
quite a number of ladies were pres
ent. The officers Of the Winnie
mucca Red Cross society are the
following named:
President, Mrs. d. S. Truman
vice-president, Mrs. Geo. B. Acker-
man; treasurer, Mrs. H. A. Gilbert
secretary, Miss Laura Leonard.
w. C. Pitt is up from Lovelock.
Naval experts estimate that the
destruction of Cervera's ships caused
loss of 100000.
After the destruction of Cervera' s
fleet, Uncle Sam slapped his guns
and remarked: ~ kin hit 'em a
flying the same as a sittin'."
1t appears from furter particulars
received here that the holdup of
passenger train No. / yesterday
morning and the looting of the ex-
press car by masked robbers near
Humboldt House, had been deliber-
ately planned.
A large pile of ties were discov-
cred across the track a short dis
lance this side Of the east whistling
post at Humboldt, evidently to
have been used in wrecking the
train had the robbers by some un-
foreseen circumstances found it inn
possible to stop the train otherwise.
Near this pile of ties the officers
found sack containing fourteen
sticks of dynamite tied up in a
bundle with fuse attached already
for lighting.
1t. is reported that the robbers
secured between twenty and twenty
six thousand dollars while again it
is said that the safe in the express
car contained but nine thousand
dollars.
As a result of the failure of a
Chinese laundry firm to fulfill their
contract to have the Comstock band
(which is playing at the encamp-
ment) white uniforms washed and
dried during the night, the members
were compelled to remain in bed
the better part of "a hours.
Washington, July 16.-The presi-
dent and secretary of war sent con-
gratulatory messages to General
Shafter today conveying the thanks
of the American people.
At General Wheeler's headquart-
ers the commissioners signed terms
providing for capitulation after mid
night last night. The Spanish COM