| Show tm t M 0 ft f nah 4 al 4 44 H 4 FIVE MEN STOP TRAIN OFFICERS CALLED BUT ROAD TO STOPS HUNT FLYER STOPPED NEAR PRICE AFTER SHERIFF PUTS IN 12 HOURS D 0 n R n G OFFICERS sial SAY THEY WERE WE TESTING rat ENGINEER ON SIGNALS A red fusee the danger signal bur burn buri i ing on the arack caused eastbound east bound no 2 to come to a sudden atop stop tuesday night in the blue cut cat a few miles above this city and per pen bitted five unknown men to board her bul but for what pur purpose aj nu man can say when no 2 pulled into the city ru azy night conductor told a e strange story of an attempted hold up in the blue cut but as the irani traia top oed for just a moment there was little ae time for explanations or details th OR story told by and members 0 of bis is crew w was as that as the arnin entered the blue cut the clanger danger signal was sighted the brakes were applied and the flyer came to a sudden stop miles from a station five man u are said to have boarded the engine the crew from the coaches went f forward orward and for ten minutes the train was at a standstill tanda till chere was no fight or show 0 of fight g so far as has been learned af a L it th the a stopping of the train wan was of robb try the train crew must hust have done lone some fast talking or tall boulting what happened between the tile time star and the balance of the 44 4 4 crew left tho the coaches and the time the train started running cannot be learned and probably never will be when the train reached price op cera cers were notified and rind later vv Vr ednes lay deputy cherill johnstone Joh natone rec te c a message from officers of the road which he admitted had to do with the stopping of no 2 there was much activity for several houra hours among local railroad men and county official officials but at about eleven wednesday morning a message was received from headquarters order ing that the matter be kept quiet and kept from the press and containing the otate statement ment that the danger signal wa WAS placed on the track ahead of no 2 by order of officials as a test of ita its efficiency anil anti to see if it the engineer wo woud wold ld aitch catch ita its meaning and obe obey y ita its order the fact that a fast passenger running more than an hour late that five men were employed to apply it and atilt lutat for nearly twel twelve v hours bours the wires were kept hot with messages concern ing the stopping of the train before the explanation was made leads anany man 4 4 4 to believe that there was something more erious serious in the affair than the company would have the public know I 1 it la Is contended by some that when the officials of the road found that they had not a clew claw to the identity of the men who topped stopped the train they hatched the story of the test signal in the hope of quieting the matter and keeping it from beiner being published while the railroad officials cAls would have it understood that the office had peen been called off there Is evi evidence dende that a quiet investigation id Is being mude made and that deputy sheriff johnstone Is I 1 still working rn on the mystery about abbat noon wednesday the officer went east from this city on the water train he lie was accompanied by a number of men who might at any moment bo be pressed in as deputies nothing can be learned of his deatina destination and up to the time of goin going to presa 1 1 Thu thursday raday aftem afternoon oon he had not ae aed reamed 1 1 nothing of importance has occurred a so var jar as the pub publicist licis informed t tu C call 1 a it the e officer from the city and ana it 1 is I 1 not 0 t hard to and find a connection between the stopping of the her flyer and the sudden de trip of the officer |
