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Show HOLDUP ON IRON MOUiJTAIN " - Six Men Blow Express Safe and Escape With f $20,000. MAKE GETAWAY IN AUTOMOBILES Crime Occurs in Oklahoma Just Sooth of Coffeyrille - 1 Kansas. - r oormniB, anarch B4V Por two bean Lu night nix auaked men bald St. Louie, bom Mountain ft feathers n Hangar train Ho. 104 at standstill en tha prairie abont aiz miles' aoBth of tbla dtp while they blew open a safe in the exproaa car and eaeapad In two automobtlee eanying with them atoney and Taluablea which It if o-Uered o-Uered will amount to 20.000. The train left Little Boek at 8:30 o'clock yesterday morning, bound for Kansaa City. It waa made up of a combination baggage, mail and express ear, a day coach, a chair ear, sleeping sleep-ing ear, n dining car, aa observation aad smoking ear. The .train reached Leaapah, Okla., juat south of tkia city over the Oklahoma line about 10:30 o'clock Ust night, half aa hour late. Just after the train left Leaapah, Engineer Lynch heard n aharp cry: "Honda opt" j Bad Drop oat Engineer. Tuning, he oaw a masked man ait-ting ait-ting on the tender, pointing n revolver at him. ' P - "I'm going to ride a little ways with yon?' aaid the man. "Drive on- ' The engineer drove on. ' About four milea out of-Leaapah the' . . man made the engineer atop the traia K at a place where the tracks crossed a email anlvort near stamp of trees. Five more masked men came oat of the eramp aad taking peeltioa oa - either aide or toe train, Began snoot-' snoot-' ing ia the air aad along the aides of the traia. Then, while two of the men stood guard to prevent aay one from leaving, the other four marched the engineer en-gineer and fireman to the day coach, used as a Jim, Crow car, and locked them ia there. One man took n position to guard the rear of the train and three went into the express ear, forcing the two expressmen to jump out and stand where one of tne aide guards could keep them covered with n revolver. Far From Human Habitation. After nearly nn hour 'a work the men had succeeded in inserting a charge of nitroglycerin into the "through" aafe m the express car. They blew the aafe to pieeea aad scattered scat-tered ita contenta over the floor. They made no haste. They had ehoeea a strategic position in which to atop the traia. They were at least three milea from any human habitation. After the three men had apeat nearly near-ly an hour over the psekages takea from the aafe, the lighta 01 two auto-mobilee auto-mobilee were aeen drawing near from the direction of the Oklahoma line. A, they eame within about t)0 yard of the train on the county road, tha automobiles au-tomobiles wye stopped. The lights were extinguished and men nad auto-mobilea auto-mobilea disappeared. V The passengers, who hsd re stained huddled in the roaches, afraid to look out of the windowa, relaxed, and the disorganized traia crew got to their places. When the train reached tbn yty the sheriff waa notified aad with wo deputiea started on horseback southward in pursuit of the six baa . dita. .. . |