Show TRAIN WAS HELD UP EXPRESS CAR DYNAMITER D Two Boys Take a Hand In the Rob bing of Passengers and Are Cap tured but Declared They Did Not Know the Robbers Seattle Wash The Great Northern North-ern Overland train leaving Seattle at 820 oclock Monday night was held up and tho baggage and express car dynamited half a mile east of Mllo Post 10 about five miles from Ballard nt 84G p m Three men are known to have dono the work Two boys who got on thu blind baggage here as soon as thu holdup began entered the passenger coaches and began holding up the passengers pas-sengers They were captured They say two of tho men were on the blind baggage when they got on and the third got on at Ballard All were well dressed with rain coats and slouch hatsThe The train was flagged near the brickyard and as the engineer slowed up two men with rain coats climbed over the tender and presented revolvers revol-vers to his head When the train stopped the baggage and express car was uncoupled by one of the robbers and the engineer Instructed to pull ahead which he did for several hundred hun-dred yards when he was again commanded com-manded to stop Two of the robbers then jumped off making tho engineer and fireman do the same and all marched to the baggage bag-gage par door Tho messenger was commanded to open the door and refusing re-fusing an extra heavy charge of Ay namlte was placed against It and exploded ex-ploded The explosion tore the car almost to pieces The safe was then dynamited After securing the contents of the safe the three men started off In an easterly direction It Is believed other members of the gang were ahead of the scene of the holdup and the robbers rob-bers joined them The two boys claim they never met the holdups until they got on the train and are In no way connected with their work The Idea to hold up the passengers occurred to them after the explosion |