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Show DESPERATE MEN ' CAPTURE TRAIN Foui'lccn Tramps Take Possession of ihc Suit Lake Overland on Mojave Desert. J3y International News Servlci. SAX DERNAIUDINO, Cal., Feb. G. Fourteen desperate tramps practically took poflKeaslon of a Salt Lake overland train out on tho' Mojavo dysoret today, cowlnj? tho tralnmon and terrorising: the pasDcrusern. Greatly outnumbered, the trainmen could not kc op the Intrudors from tha cars, although numoroue ntopii were made and hoods were clubhcd and rocks hurled, Ats soon as the train would start, tho tramps would malco a ruah to not aboard. Some dove underneath the coaches, othora ollmbed to tho roof and neveral others took thn enr end of the tender, while the rmnnlncler reached the head end. Finally tho trainman decided to carry the tramps into Daprjrott without a utop, Arriving ther. Deputy Sheriff nrlght nuccccdt-d In capturlns hIx of tho tramps, after threatening them with 1i1b rovolvor. The othora escaped In the Mojave river bottom. The prisoner were each (sentenced to thirty daya on the roclrpllo. |