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Show 10 MM TRAIN PASSENGERS ON THE OVERLAND LIMITED GIVEN VIVID REMINDER REMIN-DER OF BORDER DAYS. Bandits Shot Down Those Who Resisted, Re-sisted, Killing One Man, Seriously Injured Another and Rob Men, Women and Children of Their Valuables. Ogdon, Utah. William Davis, a negro ne-gro porter, was shot and killed, A, N. Taylor, another negro porter, of Og-den, Og-den, seriously wounded, three passengers passen-gers were clubbed over tho Load with guns and 100 passengers were robbed when tho Overland Limited train of the Union Pacific was held up at Reese, a station twelve miles west of Ogden, at U o'clock Monday night by two masked men. The passengers Of the train were stripped of all of their money and Jewelry, amounting to thousands of dollars. After the highwaymen had stopped the train at the lonely station by means of the block signal, they cut off the engine and baggage car from the rest of the train and proceeded to search the Pullmans. Davis and Taylor attempted to re-1st re-1st the highwaymen and were mercilessly mer-cilessly shot down. Davis was Instantly In-stantly killed and Taylor was struck In the right arm, which was shattered by the bullet. Each person on tho train was systematically sys-tematically searched and scarcely anything any-thing of value was overlooked. Watches, rings, Jewelry and money formed the loot taken by the holdup man as he proceeded, leisurely through t each conch. There were more than i 100 passengers on the train and al-most al-most everyone. It Is believed, contrlb- ' uted something to the loot stolen by 1 the robber. For an hour and fifteen minutes the train robbers kept the limited at the little sfatlon. It was not until the i highwaymen who was searching the s train had finished the last coach that they were satisfied. With pockets bulging with the stolen money and i Jewelry, the highwaymen swung off 1 the last coach. It was fully an hour after the robbery rob-bery before the train reached a tele- i graph office and reported the rob-bi-ry, and a posse was In pursuit of tbV) robbers, but it Is thought the bcAir's start has enabled the men to elilt .the officers. 1 |