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Show TRAIN ROBBERS BLOWUP CARS COACH BLOWN UP; ENGINEER, FIREMAN, BRAKEMAN AND CLERK DIE Explosion Sets Fire to Coach; No Passengers Hurt; Posse in Pursuit. Bandits get no Loot Hilts, Calif. Two bandits who boarded the southbound Southern Pacific San Francisco express as it entered a tunnel near here shortly after noon Thursday killed three trainmen, Btopped the train and threw a bomb into the mail car, killing kill-ing the mail clerk and wrecking the car. The explosion wrecked the mail car so completely that no loot was obtained by the bandits. Four cars besides the mail car were damaged so that they were removed from the tunnel only with difficulty. Railway employes said they saw two men board the train Just as it entered the tunnel. It is bolieved that the bandits either were railroad employes or former for-mer railroad men and killed the trainmen when they were recognized apparently before they had stopped the train. The mail car had been barricaded by the clerk, who refused to let the ! bandits enter. Attempting to force j an entrance, they threw the explo-J explo-J sive through the window. The rail-I rail-I road employes at the entrance of the j tunnel, seeing the train stop and i hearing the explosion thought the boiler of the engine had exploded. They started to investigate and meantime the bandits disappeared. Sheriff Calkins of Yreka who arrived ar-rived at the scene shortly after the holdup, found the tracks of three men leading over the hill away from -the wreck. The belief that the holdup men were familiar with the operation of trains was strengthened by indications indica-tions that the bandits first killed the engineer ami fireman anil then stopped stop-ped the train. |