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Show 11 GRANDE TRAIN HELD . UP NEAR GRAND JUNCTION ' BY FIVE MASKED ROBBERS Express Car Wrecked by Dynamite, but Bandits Secure Little Booty; . Train Due in Salt Lake This Afternoon. BULLETIN. 2Uo Grande train No. 5, due here "V at 10:40 this morning, which was held up near Parachute last night, is three hours and forty-five minutes late,Hd will reach Salt Lake at 2:15 this .yternoon. The Rio Grande officials offi-cials here have received no detailed Information concerning the robbery. DENVER. June 8. Denver & Klo Grande passenger train No. 3, westbound west-bound from Denver, was held up last night by five masked men three miles west of Parachute, a fruit station mld-ay mld-ay between Grand Junction and Glen-vood Glen-vood Springs. One sealed bag containing contain-ing specie was taken from the express safe, which was dynamited. The express ex-press car was badly wrecked by dynamite, dyna-mite, but the robbers were forced to take to the moutnains before they could gather up the valuables In the car. , Posse n Pursuit. . .. ' Sheriff W. G. Struthers and Deputy Sheriff D. If. Hardy of Grand Junction are now upon the trail of the robbers with a posse of farmers and ranchers, w ho were quickly summoned from the vicinity of Grand Junction. Sheriff Frank Adams, with another posse from Glenwood Springs is also Scouring the surrounding country. When the train reached a point three wiles west of Parachute last night two masked men crawled over the tender of the engine. They placed six-shooters to the head of Engineer Allison and his fireman and demanded that the train be stopped. Three men were waiting on Ihe tender and as the train stopped they quickly ran back and uncoupled the express and baggage cars. These cars, with the engine, were run two miles further west. Train Crew Is Helpless. Tbe-members of the train crew were oi VjJf-d to remain with the passenger ioa.ci)c8 on pain of being shot. When the point selected for the dynamiting of the express car w as reached, the engineer en-gineer and fireman were ordered down. One of the robbers covered them with two six-shooters. The remainder of the gang went to the express car. Messenger D. M. Shi-a of this city refused re-fused to open the car upon demand and piled the baggage of the car up to the front of the car. The robbers placed a tick of dynamite at the side door of the car. The entire door was blown I "away with 'a" terrible crash. Half a dosen trunks which hud been piled up .'against the door were demolished and their burning contents scattered over the car. Robbers Knew Their Business. train at Unaweep a year ago escaped in a similar manner. Sheriff ' Struthers believes that the robbers escaped on horseback after crossing the Grand. The great Iron combination safe was - the only one In the car. The robbers showed that they were conversant with conditions on the road, for they did not even demand the messenger to open the sife. They knew that he did not tiave the combination. This safe ran ,nly be opened in Denver and in Salt kke. - A stick of dynamite was placed against the lock of the safe. Here again the robbers showed their disregard of dynamite. Half the explosive would have done the work. Brave Brakeman Wounded. Just at this point Brakeman Shellen-bargcr, Shellen-bargcr, who had been ordered to remain with the passenger coaches, two miles behind, came running up the track carr rylng a lantern. One of the robbers shot at him. He was wounded In the leg and Is now In the Sisters' hospital at Grand Junction. When the robbers saw that the train crew were -omlng they fled to the mountains.' One of them as he Jumped from the express car grabbed one sealed bag which had been blown clear out of the safe. This was the only plunder which was taken. The engineer and others who had been under the aim of the robbers went to the Bid of Shellenbarger, who had fallen where he was shot. Officers Aro Notified. After the hold-up. the engine, bag-g" bag-g" le and express cars barked to Para-iite, Para-iite, where the alarm was given to tne railroad officials. Headquarters at Grand Junction, Sa-llda. Sa-llda. Pueblo and Denver were notified. The scene of the robbery was but 600 yards from the flow of the Grand river, and it is believed that the robbers had a boat hidden in the Grand and that they used , this to cross the river, destroying de-stroying It after they had crossed. The robbers who held up the Rio Grande I X |