Show A DARING ROBBERY BANDITS HOLD UP PASSENGER TRAIN IN WYOMING iferd 1 ditl dynamite dynamic to mow blow open the bate and bridge ond HII several cars m inon aiono of the th haiim PH n c r n wr orn ant byma by t 0 b b cheyenne Che wyo junea aust before daylight I 1 morning in tl ti a midst of a drenching lain the union pacific wea west t bound passenger train n was as hold held up about a naile mile from wilcox the robbers blew up the espre express s car with dj severely wounding the engineer and then escaped to the moun monn bains according to the officials of the express company the robbers obtained only a nominal reward for their daring crime A posse under command of the sheriff of carbon county is ia in pui pursuit au suit t find and the officers ate aie confident of cap turing them the bandits six in number tire are believed to be members of the hole in the allRan ff the train was teem the est westbound bound passenger albo carrying mail and express it was running irk ia two sections the first section being the one held beld up this section consisted of ta two 0 mail cars I 1 a baggage gaage car filled n with ith overland mail rn an express car cap and two well filled pas benger coaches this section was due at IVIl Lox at 2 09 a in but it w n as a little late it hail passed wilcox and was flagged by it a i ed cd light between IN alcox and aurora at 2 I 1 18 it was at a point miles east of ogden or miles debt of cheyenne As A the thain reached the bridge one of the robbers crawled into the cab and at the point of a gun ordered fn an elneer jones to pull across the bridge and stop meanwhile the others of the gang wei e at work in the express car just as the engine pulled off the bridge a m was as a tremendous explosion that scattered trie the express car for a 6 hundred fact in every direction the end of the mall mail car was blown in und and several stringers knocked out of tile the bridge engineer jones was slightly injured by flying ing debi cebila Is it only required a few minutes for tile the robbers to rifle the safe which was blown blonn open by the explosion they took its ita contents signalled signal led their cod federates on the engine and before the passengers geis and the train clew were aware of jutt juht what N hit had happened were off for the mountains it required two hours to clear away the wreck so that the train could proceed to medicine how the he next station arora chith the re report waa as sent the passengers wei e not molested by the bandits and the only poison injured was the engineer A reward of 1000 each for the arrest of the ebbers lobbers lob I 1 bers dead or alive has been offered by the express company |