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Show TKAI31 KOBUEUY. Uuiuii ' Pacific Eipress Ke-licvetlot Ke-licvetlot $75,000. Passengers also Miidc lo Give lp. - I ixho Robbers Nou Est. Cbeyenne, 18. -The east bound i passenger train which passed here at 3 p.m. to-cUy was stopped and robbed by thirteen masked men at Big 'Springs, Neb., 100 'miles east' of here to-night. The robbers first took possession of the Btation at the springs, destroying the telecraphic instruments and compelled the agent to hang out a red light. When the train stopped the robbers took possession', posses-sion', putting the train rhou and passengers under guard. The express car was ' broken into and the sale robbed of about $75,000. The passengers were also robbed, ol what amouut is not yet aicerUined. To delay the train in reaching the next station and the alarm being I given, the fire in the locomotive was wetidown. A freight train overtaking the; express, it was sent to Ogalalla, from where the report of the robbery wasiraade. The robbers are believed to have gone north. The railroad confpany ofl'er a reward of $5,000 for the-arresfr ofthe thieves. |