Show iA I Hll TRAIN TRAINS S I HELD Ij UP NEAR SPOKANE Mail Car and Engine Sent Against Rest of the Train After the Robbery and a Dozen Persons Injured Bandits Said to Have Secured About Several Posses in Pursuit Description of the Men Sp ju the holdup of oC the Northern passenger apr twin trIn No o 3 ret G tween Colbert and Mead shortly be midnight last twelve ve persona persone tort frt d when Ute the engine and ad maR mail maRtar II tar ar run ron wild down n the track j iY y the tM after they had the lh malls mails cOllided with the cars ez of the train Iraln The bandits bandIt de detached ached th the no and nd id mil mila car from th the twin ran them the tho track a CO distance down after the registered man maR had hadeen hadeen and nd een wn opened d sent the engine e e back de to col I Ide Ide je de with wilh standing cars Frightful Crash The conductor cond saw laW the thO wOd w d cars eara com corn JIll K u n the track at a rate rat of twenty me five milts miles an hour when they were a II distance away WY and he be and lin linne ne of the trainmen placed a atit Ti tte on the t track in ii an endeavor to stop MOp their wild wiki The engine and nd car were wre partly pertly topped Hopped by b the th tie but plunged plu Into th the sending coaches was wa as a frightful crash and the In all of oC the cars car were thrown t rown rom their seats ats most mo t of the Injured be bei belaC behig i laC hig ig hurt b by glass from the broken win window windo window dow do There Thre Th re we wese e injured persons persona in inner ner ery car Ca Robbers Suddenly Appeared hn nn the train reached re bed Colbert CoI rt some Hitching had to be done While the ngin crew were at the werk two mm mm suddenly appeared l la In the cab eab of o oThE the engine and thrusting thru a revolver rever t the body hod of 0 the engineer Wit W Wham ham lim sm Miller ordered him to do M as corn com commanded The rhe engineer and fireman B John Hall hail t The car was coupled on to the tM train rain and it pulled out After the train n hId l proceeded a few miles the engineer r ra was ws a ordered to stop and J be he and his bIB fire firemen men were forced to dismount from Crom the tile thea tah a Mail Mall Car Uncoupled Two of the four or five fhe men that were we en ell then went to the door of the mail mati maili i ar iT and ordered it to be opened o nfl beir r irmand was obeyed b by Benjamin V I Stumpf the mail clerk Meanwhile two other ther bandits were we with the engineer and fremen who were uncoupling the I tb wall mall wallar mallar ar and the Io from the be th rest rt to of i 1 ne hI train Soon goon after the train traill stopped top the con conductor ductor C r L lenin I the tar car but hot was ae driven back by the shot shott M t th Ihl holdups nearly nearl a docen dosen shots fired Dash Down the th Track Hastily combing into the cab the out aws aw wi opened the throttle and nd dashed down dowa the Tb tracks how far is not known As A soon toon a I S the conductor was aware that there ber was nas as a holdup he ordered a brake Din mu i t the rear real of the train to pre pro nt a collision and he had bad another brake man cut in on a telegraph wire to send seed word to Spokane A third member of the train crew was hurried to the sta station station tion lion with the news About a after the engine and mall mail car had sad disappeared they were seen sen coming cominS back down the track and hur hurried hurried ried preparations were made to ditch the runaways but without complete success e Officers Hurried to Scene Two special trainloads of officers were hurried fron Spokane when the word wont of or orthe the holdup was received Doctors were also aiM taken out on the train to care for Cor forthe forthe the injured Insured Chief Ryan of oC also ateo went out with a posse and aDd surrounded all of the roads leading toward Spokane Several shots hots were we heard by b the posse po se east of them but no trace of oC the holdups was u found Help was sent out fut from nail and the train was wa brought to sheet about oc ock this morning Large Sum Obtained It is 18 reported that the bandits obtained a large sum of money from Crom the regis registered registered registered mail mall the amount being placed at MOO The two bandits who climbed into the cab ab are described as follows Coll ws One more mor Than 6 fi feet tall weight pounds face wrinkled about K iii 3 years old or older evidently an experienced engineer The Theother Theother Theother other man Ulan about feet 9 inches tall and weighing about lO TO pounds Both men were dark clothing and slouch hats beta and were masked mt etI As they en entered entered terecI the cab eab the tall taft man said to the engineer You have heard of us before beCore indi indicating cating caUD that they had bad been involved in others of the numerous train holdup holdups in inthe Inthe inthe the of Spokane within the last few months T N Wilson and anti wife of Spokane were wen seriously Injured Mr Sir Wilson n suffered fractures of two rite while Mrs Wilsons IJ back fe Is strained and many bruises were inflicted |