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Show BY TWO M ASKED M lN They Hold Dp an Express Train Near I Modesto, Cal., Bat are Frightened Off Without Any Booty. A DETECTIVE FATALLY WOUNDED The Express iCar Blown Open With a Bomb The Texas Robbsrs Secured Se-cured $15.0C0- San FliANCisi o, Sept. 4. -The I.o Ang,;ies express was held up by two masked men a few miles south of Modesto Mo-desto x". 8; Io last night. The robbers' boarded the train at Ceres and com- p lied the engineer and fireman to extinguish ex-tinguish the headlight and fill tiie boiler with water. They then made the trail, men get down and go to the exprcsF car and orJer it opened. The conductor and hrakeman ware in the front car, and w hen they came not were warned l.y a number of shots from the robbers. Two deUctives, who happened to be on the tiain, 'opened hie on tho robbers, who returned re-turned it, hitting Harris, a detective, in U11 head and fatally wounding h'.m. fn the meantime the robbers exploded j a bomb before tho door of the express car and shattered it, but they became frightened and lelt without securiug any booty. Harris was taken to Merced wheie he is dying. As soon as tin nrws of tha attempted attempt-ed robbery reached Merced, a special train sterted for tha sceno bearing olli-cers olli-cers aud a posse of sixty men who am now in pursuit. Ollicers also started from Turlock, Modesto, Merced aud Lalhrop. MElii'ED, Cal., Sept. 4 Two men suspected of being implicated in the attempted train robbery last night were arrested at Ceres early this morniug and taken to Modesto. The physicians who attended Detective Detec-tive Harris say his wound is not serious. i TllrV MAUI! GOOD MAUL. Tb Southern Furtllo Train Kobliers Sr. etir.d About ftis.noo, San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 4. The amount taken by the men who robbed the Southern 1'acilio express train at iSamules is said to be about 8 1.1, 000- in-itead in-itead cf the small sum at tirst reported. |