The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-11-11
CALIFORNIA ROBBERS !:
PRY LOOSE Rails TOl
DITCH ANDROB TRAIN
Two Wreckers Take $500 Cash. :
No Jewelry; Engineer Is
Fatally ScaIded
FLYER OERAlLED IN SOUTH
Fatalities Occur III coaches1
Loaded With Excursionists;
Nine Coaches Pile Up
FLYER OERAILEO IN SOUTH.

Two train wrecks on sharp curves,
one in California which was en-.
gineered by two men who afterwards !,
robbed passengers. and the other In I
Tennessee, carly this morning claimed
the lives Of four persons and injured !
more than so, according to Associated !,
Press dispatches.
Two men who wrecked tho West
Coast Limited Of the Southern Pa
cific railroad In the mountainous
country six miles west OF euugus,
Calf. and then robbed the frighten-
ed passengers. were sought today
throughout Southern California.
Railroad officials announced the en-
gineer. r. c. Call. was the orly
casualty and that the loot taken from
passengers was approximately $500.
Call received burns which may prove
fatal when the boiler exploded Is the
locomotive overturned.
The train operates between Los An
geles and Sacramento. SauguS is
about 40 miles north Of Los Angeles.
Four were known killed and more
than so injured when the Ponce de
Leon. fast northbound passenger
train of the Southern Railway. was
wrecked after 1t was derailed In Ten.
neSsee.
The trainmen killed were: w. A,
Eisman. Of Chattanooga. engineer;
Ed Grant. Rising Fawn, Ca. fireman,
and z. Winstead. mail clerk Of NehO,
KY.
The derailment occurred OH 4
sharp curve. at 20 o'clock this morn
ing % miles north Of Oakdals and
about Is miles south Of the Ken
lucky line.
The body Of q passenger killed was
identified as Marvin Bradshaw. st.
Augustine, Fla.
Mine Coaches Overlarn
Nine coaches left the track. The
heaviest casualties among the pass
engers injured were In the first three
cars which were filled with excur-
sionists who had spent Sunday in
Chattanooga and on Lookout noun
tain.
The injured were taken to somer-
| set, KY. lockwood. Tenn, and 70
Chattanooga. A special train was
operated from Chattanooga to the
wreck.
| The robbers. carrying out an appar.
emily well planned plot. chose Q curve
in the tracks to pry loose 10 lengths
Of rail. The speeding locomotive hit
the weakened rails and plowed into =
ditch. Overturning and carrying with
it baggage and mail cars and two
coaches.
Masked Men On Job
As the train crashed to : halt, two
masked men waving revolverS ap-
peared In q sleeping car four lengths
from the end Of the train.
They encountered Conductor OTIS L.
French. One Of them said: 'sThere
Is relief train due from 6augus any
moment-and I'll trouble you for oil
the money YOU have. II you don't
mind"
The conductor felt . gun against
his side and raised his hands. Then
turning to the frightened men and
women passengers. one shouted curt
ly: Move backward and shell out. =
The passengers o. the last four carr
were herded to the end Of the train.
Lining approximately score Of theul
against seats. one made . unethodiCal
search Of their clothing while the
other stood on stool. covering tteul
with his gun. They took only cash
refusing jewelry. As they ccmpleted
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