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Show Arrests made on wrecking charge Fire Men Accused of the At-tempt At-tempt to Ditch Express, j Which WrecKed Freight ij Train. Leu thaji twelve hours after the al- legad ttemptto wreck the ( a.ifomia Expmt on the Union Pacific, in which ' Enjrinaer J. A. McFeely of n east-bound, east-bound, regular freight was ki i. and his fireman, A. E. Trask. seriously injured, in-jured, five men were arrested tor the alleged erime, and lodged in iail at etexaon. seventeen miles east of Og sb' and the scene of the attempted - wreek. The men were arrested .ster.iay ear Peterson bv Special Acent -lo eph Jones and Claim Agent M.-Nitt of the Short Line. Their names are Hor aee and Harry Gardner, William Anderson, An-derson, Irvine Corrigan and Ldi5 -babe. The operator at Peterson was also arrested, bnt was later released. Three others were also set free, and W of th two remaining prisoner, the officers think thev have the men gniltv I of trying to wreck the train tor the 1 purpose of breaking into the express Years and robbing safes and more-, pack-age. pack-age. Jf Investigation and a persistent sweat process showed that the n.en were -w''in the habit of loafing around the sta r ;tion, ted., of stealing coal from pass ing trains. ' According to the operator, the men spent tome little time veier day showing eaehother how e'asv it was to throw the wHh hv means of a rail or other kind of-lver. Thev also tampered with the dangwr signal, it fa said. Each true f the prisoners denied hav-Ing hav-Ing anything to do with the attempted wrecking, although thev did n d der.v that Harry Gardner had placed a steel bar in the frog near the station Thev insisted, however, that he was later persuaded to remove the obstruction. Officials of the road believe they have the guilty men. and will push the in vestigation until positive of their guilt. |