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Show - i The Work of Fiends. " El Paso, Texas, December 29. It became j known yesterday that a bold attempt had j been made on the 23d instant to blow up the i bridge of the Southern Pacific Railroad j across the Rio Grande river, several miles j above the city. Dynamite was placed on j the track and the bridge bolts loosened. A j dozen or more men, speaking English, seized ; the bridge tender about midnight, bound and blindfolded him, and then marched him ; to a cabin. It was the intention of the men ; to blow up passenger train No. 20 from the j bridge, then plunder the dying passengers : on the rocks below. The tram, however, was several hours - late, . and as daylight . ap- proached the robbers fled. : |