Deseret Evening News | 1897-09-10 | Page 3 | Train Robbers Outwitted

TRAIN ROBBERS OUTWITTED I Coolness and Good Judgment of the Engineer Who Had Been There I Though Felled In Thlr Iurpo he clang ate Still at lIrg St Louis Mo Sept 9A special to the Ilepubllo from Muskogec I T atys A darln alteI1 was made IaBt night to hold tip the southbound passenger I rl ubb monger train on the M 1C S T railway I rail-way it Bond I Ta flag station thIrty miles kouth of here A short time before be-fore the I train was dm the robbers about eight In number took charge 01 Ihe ectlen foreman And compelled him tu all < unl the train to stop The cligl nor In chrge 01 tile locomolhe wn nn 0101 nnd truled emlhy who hall heen I hold UI oelral times before Ile nn Upg JlIoeeede < l to obey the snnl but ulien hi I enelne Ivan within IOU yards oC the I net I he nolieId several mon tnntlng tleur the tracks nnd at once suspected their purpose Opening the thtI lit poll by them us though no signal 1 had Ioen given r thcra ha hlt I been lolled In tholr attempt lied und i are utlll at large