Show BATTLE ATTLE I IN 0 DARK PHANTOM FUGITIVE FIRES POINT BLANK ON A DEPUTY Battle With the Desperado at ate Close Range e in Darkness in Which Phantom Outlaw I- I May Have Been Wounded 4 BULLETIN 4 r I I- I f SEA SEATTLE Wash ash 11 11 Not Not ot July a Q word of or Tracys Tracy's movements since sincel l last night ht have b been en received recel here herc toda today The Thc posse and rind newspapermen f ff f are now out of oC reach of f the lines JInes of communication and the next dispatch f ff f received from the scene of action will contain the news of battle or or escape f Rumors were afloat this morning that Tracy had been surrounded at ata ata f a railroad bridge between Covington ton and Auburn and little a later the f ff f Sheriffs Sheriff's office received word that shots had hud been exchanged between a af f deputy and the convict f 1 1 T L 4 I A k 1 I I I I I A I L I I I I I Li J I I. I T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T Y T T Y Y Y T T Y Y T T Y Y Y V T COVINGTON Wash ash July 11 Tracy 11 Tracy performed d the marvelous again and last night slipped like a phantom through the cordon of or guards at the mouth of oC creek fought a battle with deputies a mile west of or here herc and escaped into the timber In the lighting fighting no one was hurt though when the outlaw fired twice at t T. T E E. Crowe Crove he hc was so 50 close that the thc deputy could feel the burning powder l as It was blown from Crom the gun n. n When darkness s came Tracy was thought to to-be to be securely penned on the point of ot the western bluff blurt where he had lain concealed concealed concealed con con- all morning Thou Though h the guards were strung thickly one ono being posted every CIT fin fifty feet he successfully eluded them and traveled up the roadbed o oC of the thc Palmer off cut toward Covington ton five thc miles distant TRACY WALKS INTO A TRAP AND THEN OUT AGAIN At 1143 1145 last night Tracy arrived at the plant of oC the Covington Lumber company compan a a. mile from this place Deputy Deput Sheriffs J. J A. A Bunce l Fred red C. C Bunce Calvin and Crowe had been sent to guard this point Deputy Cro Crowe e and the father father- and son son had posted themselves at the thc railroad near the sawmill at the entrance of oC a a. big cut through a a. rise of or the ground the Dunces the line Th They y were hardly settled when thc they heard fo footsteps approaching from Crom the Auburn side but remained quiet until the unknown unknown un un- un- un known had almost come abreast of oC them when the challenge to halt was vas given si Hello responded the stran stranger er What Is your name demanded J J. A. A Bunce Dunce My I name is Anderson DEPUTIES OPEN FIRE ON THE PHANTOM OUTLAW As he hc gave sa this reply Trac Tracy for It was he hc started to run The deputies again called upon him to halt but he kept going and the they opened fire shoot shoot- Ins fog four times each Tracy ran up the track and a few yards further creel ered Deputy Deput Sheriff Crowe Iho IWho I I. Who ho goes oe there 1 challenged the officer A A deputy deput coolly responded the outlaw Crowe thinking it was the elder cider Bunce started to approach when Tracy commenced shooting at close range rans-e. firing two shots The bullets whistled harmlessly by br but Crowe suffered slightly from flOm the burning powder as it sped from irom the muzzle of the rifle ride RETREATS INTO BRUSH A FTER HIS HOT ENCOUNTER After shooting Tracy tui ned and entered the brush along alons- the side of the tho track where h he was c lost in the blackness of ot the tIle night The deputies made a hurried circle through the woods to Covington to head Tracy off but hut on their theil Arrival al found that he had not passed the station A ch dated 3 a. a m m. adds that since d his hise cap f fn the of k Tr Tracy f ll has ff one n 7 eith und t freight trains v The grade I heavy leavy at this point but the train was running light anSI and n at such speed that Trac Tracy was um unable to board It POSSIBILITY THAT TRACY WAS WOUNDED IN FIGHT Another train passed and the conductor reports report's that while hie running near the thc sawmill some Fome one called for him to stop top As there are no deputies there at present it i is thought Trac Tracy is the thc man who called and nd the opinion is advanced that he may have have been wounded in the battle Just before midnight A man thought to be Merrill Ill appeared yesterday at th the home of a farmer a it few fe miles east of Ravensdale near here and wanted food tood He remained in the thc vicinity all day |