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Show TRAIN JOBBERS BUNGLED . . ! THEIR JOB; MADE EA6LURE PORTLAND, Or.,- Dec. IS. Crudity throughout marked ono of the most sensational sen-sational train robberies ever pulled off in this vicinity, last night, when three bandits held up and looted the Chicago express train on the Oregon Railroad & Kavigatiou, about, eight miles oast of Portland, and all the plunder secured was $3-130 in cash, taken from Express Messenger O. II. Tluil, and about $0.50 worth of diamonds and cheap jcwclrj-. A little over $3000 in cash was overlooked over-looked by tho robbers, although it lay in easy reach, having been tossed behind be-hind the small way safo by Express Messenger Huff, to wliose presence of mind tho protection of the real valuables valua-bles in tho express car may bo attributed. at-tributed. Neither of tho two combination baggage bag-gage and mail cars, which carried thousands thou-sands of dollars' worth of registered mail, nor tho passenger coaches, six in uimibor, occupied by about '200 through passengers from tiio oast, wero molested. mo-lested. It was pjain from all circum-. stances surrounding tho robbery that tho men expected to find rich loot in tho express car, which thov wore prepared, pre-pared, .to sccuro by. the use of nitro- ! glycerin. There being no through safo on tho car they had no use for their explosives, for tho small way safe stood open and the cheap plunder was gathered gath-ered out of it without trouble. Two Arrests Made. Two men, who in a geuoral way an- I swer tho description of the two men 1 implicated in tho robbery, havo boon arrested by the sheriff's office. They arc being sweated this afternoon. There is some reason to believe that i i it is tho gang which plundered the oriental ori-ental limited on the Groat Northern al. Ilillyard. a niiln out of Spokane, on tho night of December 0, for whom a reward re-ward of $12,000 has been offered, is ; tho one that turned the trick last night, : although tho Great Northern gang I showed some skill in their operations, , which was. not manifest in last night's . robbery. ' . ! No. I, tho crack train on the Oregon : Railroad & Navigation, was ruuuiug j late, owing to tho heavy fog. The train ( consisted of ten cars, six . passenger j coaches, two couibiuation baggage and i mail cars, ono bairgago and one express j car, tho latter being the only one that was tholestod. General Manager J. P. O'Brien of tho Ifnrriman lino has offered a reward of $500 for tho arrest and conviction of each of tho three robbers. Tho Pa- i cilic Express company will participate j in offering a reward, but tho aiuouut I has not been specified. Engineer Donlan got a fairly gQod look at all three men. The man who , guarded him woro yellow corduroy trousers, black slouch hal, and said he was an ex-railroad fncmau. Tho leader of tho gang is supposed to be a Swede. |