Show HOLDUP ON THE GREAT NORTHERN I I Bandits Turn Engine Loose After Looting Car and Cause Wreck Twelve Being Injured Four or Five Men Wero In the Party It Being Reported That They Secured Se-cured at Least 20000 for Their Nights Work Spokane ashln the holdup of the Great Northern passenger train No 1 between Colbert and Mead shortly before midnight Saturday night twelve portions wore Injured when the engine and mall car run wild down tho track by tho bandits I after they had rilled the malls collided col-lided with the remaining cars of thoj train Tho bandits detached tho engine en-gine and mall car from tho train rant them down tho track a considerable distance and then after the regis torod mall had been opened sept time engine back to collide with the standing stand-ing cars The conductor saw the wild cars coming down tho track at the rata of twentylive miles nn hour when they were a considerable distance away and he und one of the trainmen train-men placed a tie on the tracks InJ Ian I-an endeavor to stop their wild flight The engine and car were partly stopped by the tie but plunged Into tho standing coaches Jj When the train reached Colbert some switching had to be don i While tho engine orqw wns busy af tho work two men suddenly appeared In the cab of tho engine and thriiBt Ing a revolver against the body oij the engineer ordered him to do as commanded Tho engineer and his Iranian obeyed The car was coupled on to the train ifnd It pulled out After the train had proceedd a few miles the engineer waR ordered to stop and ho and his fireman were fprced to dismount dis-mount from the cab Two of the four or fire men that were scan then went to the floor of the mall car and ordered It to bo enedJheL c01nmand waftobe by tho mall clerk Meanwhile two other bandits were with the engineer and fireman who were uncoupling the nail car and the locomotive from the rest of time train i Hastily climbing into the cab tho outlaws opened the throttle and dashed dash-ed down the trackshoW far Is not known As soon as the conductor was aware that thero was a holdup he ordered a brakonian to the rear ot tho train to prevent a collision and he had another brakeman cut tho telegraph wire and send word to Spokane Spo-kane A third member of the train crow was hurried to the station with the news I It Is reported that the bandits obtained ob-tained a large sum of money from the registered mall tho amount being placed at 20000 |