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Show JlllllLdL UilllUlld HOLDJP TRAIN j 'AND SEIZES SHANGHAI-PEKIN EXPRESS TRAIN, TAKING CAPTIVE 150 i i lumber of Americans Believed Held For Ransomc. Troops Reported ; To Be Pursuing Brigands; j British Subject Killed Pekln. Reports trickling In horo ( londay from tho Shantun border at .Incheng, whero early Sunday 1,000 andlts sob.cd tho Shunghal-Pckln ox. ( ress train on tho TIontsln-Fukow j all way nnd took cnptlvo 150 of Its asscngers, Indicate that ono forolgn. r, a Urltlsh subject named Rethmnn, ' ,-as killed, and that n numbor of imerlcans, probably nil mon, still I tood Jn peril, at tho mercy of the rlgunds, this afternoon. Troops woro belloved to bo pursuing ( ho bandit army. , Among tho Americans reported hold , oro Robert Scrlpps, tho nowspnper ( mbllsher: Major Plnger and two ( thor offlcors of tho American army, , inmed Roland nnd Allen, nil throo In ho Phlllpplno service; four others, irhoso names wero given as Henly, 1 oo, Solomon nnd Levy. 1 Tho passongors Included thlrty-nlno orolgners. Ten of them escaped or 1 I'ero released. Tho outlaw hords, having derailed ( ho forward part of the train by ; neans ot a broken track, fired a olloy toward tho coaches. , Major Plngor's two sons also woro aken prisoner, but Sirs. PIngor os-aped. os-aped. Tho captives included J. R. owell, editor of tho Weekly Rovlow J it Shanghai. 1 |