Show = i S = BARRETT JEllS g STORY Wounded Engineer Details itR HoldUp of Train ORDERED TO DYNAMiTE GAR S I Placed Explosive Against Door i t of Express Car I r 1 After Explosion tho Messenger Fired J Killing One of the Z3cmdits and Wounding Engineer Portland Or Sept 40l1e L S Barrett the wpunded engineer on the I S Atlantic express the eastbound Oregon 5 Railroad Navigation train which was hold up i at Corbctt station last I night who was brought to Portland and taken to the hospital at an early hour this morning1 told the following story oc the holdup About a mile beyond Trouldrvle two masked men climbed In on the blind baggage over the tender t and through t the guigv iy Into the engine covering both Ill > mrn and myself with their revolvers re-volvers They ordered us to run the train to mile post 21 and slop at a light which would be found thereAt 1 there-At mile post Ll two other masked s men came out or the brush and joined tS us 35 the train stopped The newcomers S ordered us oft otl tho engine The ban tIlts who had been hiding in the brush t carried two long willow poles on the S ends of which were sticks of dynamite These ere phiced In our hands and the S fiieman and I wore ordcred to go back to the express car and order I the messenger messen-ger to open the door H he did not we p wore told to light the dynamite and blow It open S FFSILTLADE OF SHOTS I The bandits kept up a fusillade of S shots lo warn the passengers to keep their heads Inside the windows We were compelled to proceed down to the I baggage car where I called out to the messenger flt is Barrett Open the door Dont shoot This demand had no effect and the bandits tcok the dynamite poles from our hands and placed them against the door of the car after lighting long fuses S We were then ordered back to the enginE en-ginE and stayed there with the bandits until the dynamite blew the door open ONE BANDIT KILLED As soon us the sound of the explosion S Ion had died away I was ordered to go S ahead of the party back toward the carS car-S Instead oC obeying orders I stepped behind S be-hind a rather slender man one of the bandlte and the fireman followed me The taller l man was in the rear IVe S Were twenty feet from the express car 5 when the messenger fired and killed the robber in front of me The bullet we afterward found went through his heart I mid then struck me in thc left shoulder As I tVlt the bullet strike me T called to the taller man that I 1 was shot and that my left arm had gone The tall man told me It was all right that I might go back to the engine with the fireman and go ahead We examined the small man first however and found he was killed After thG special train bearing the Sheriffs posse arrived at the scene of the attempted holdup of the Oregon Railroad after he special train bearing the Sheriffs Sher-iffs posse arrived at the scene of the attempted S at-tempted holdup of the Oregon Railroad Navigation train near Corbet one of S the gang of outlaws was found at LJO this morning a short distance up the track badly wounded from a charge of buckshot which he had received In the S head He was placed on board the Sheriffs Fpcclnl train which was turned around and headed for Portland CONNORS HIS NAME The bandit said that his name Is Jim Connors and that he Is from Portland but rofiiRos to make known the names of any of tho other bandits or the direction In whirh they went The Portland polico state that no had character Is known to them under that name They say howover that they have reports that there has been a band of outlaws camped along the Columbia river for several days and that they have been watching all trains entering the city to arrest the gang should it have come within the limits of their authority au-thority STORY OF THE MESSENGER Express Messenger Prod Kornors story of the attempted holdup is i as follows fol-lows lowsWhen When the three masked robberi who had climbed on the engine at Troutdale compelled Engineer Barrel and Fireman Fire-man Stevenson to stop the train a mile and a half from Corbett 1 saw them and told Glick my helper to turn out the lights Just then Brakeman Claude Stevenson came runninp to see what was the matter when as he neared the express oar one robber shot at him and cursing ordered him backSAW I I back-SAW WHAT WAS COMING I I I I I saw what was coming and took my I stand in the rear end of the car and already having my shotgun in my hand waited while Click lay on the floor in the forward end 1 slid the cage door on lIsa I tide of the car back and watched the robbers TOOK A CHANCE Soon there was a knock at the side door on the forward end and the request re-quest Dont shoot It is the engineer 1 did not reply and soon the bandits prepared tho powder They had it ready in half a minute and acting thai It was lighted 1 took chances antI waited SHOT ONE RORBER Thc explosion did little danjage but without hesitating l I slid the door open enough to get my shoulder out and look aim at one of the masked men The gun did rot work Throwing out the defective shell I fired Knocking down my man At the same time the engineer yelled that he was hit IIUirBY BUCKSHOT The lobbers ran and as they went aver he bank T shot at one but apparently ap-parently missed htm 1 helped the engineer en-gineer who was hit by h > one stray bullet bul-let back to the tngine antI lhe lrain proceeded with but twenty minutes delay de-lay S |