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Show BATTLE WITH ALLEGED TRAIN-ROBBERS IN COLORADO; CAPTURE SEEMS LIKELY i 7 i GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., June 9. A pitched battle la reported here to be taking place in the Divide creek country, twenty miles to the west of this place, between a number of cow punchers and three men who are be lieved to be the train robbers who stopped the- Denver & Rio Grande westbound passenger train near Parachute Para-chute Tuesday night, blew open the express car and safe and escaped with one bag of specie. Sheriff Adams .today received a telephone tele-phone message from Joe Banta, a ranchman on Mamra creek, to the effect ef-fect that the three men came to his place this morning and at the point of a gun forced the people on his ranch to give them breakfast. After their departure Mr. Banta endeavored to telephone his information to town and found that his tough visitors had cut the wire before coming to the house. The break was easily repaired and notice no-tice sent to surrounding ranches. A posse of cowboys was soon formed and started in pursuit. As the sheriff was leaving Glenwood to ko to the scene news was received that the fugitives had been surrounded and were firing on their pursuers. Reports Re-ports received from along the Grand river show that the men have been securing se-curing fresh horses along their route by taking them out of farm corrals. leaving their spent horses in exchange. The Divide creek country is well settled set-tled and telephones are numerous, to that it will be almost impossible for the party to get away. I Banta ranch is about five miles up. Marnm creek from the Grand river and fully forty miles from the scene of the hold-ur. A posse of citizens has left New Castle Cas-tle to aid in the capture of the three train robbers. One of the men is re-1 re-1 ported wounded and it is expected they will soon be captured, dead or alive. The fugitives stole three horses on Divide Di-vide creek this morning,- but it 4s reported re-ported that they soon abandoned them anod were attempting to get through the hills on foot when they were surrounded- |