Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-25 | Page 9 | Two Men Hold up Train; Loot Mail

TWO MEN HOLD UP TRAIN LOOT MAIL SEATTLE Wash vash Feb 25 Deputy Deputy Deput sheriffs the police of Seattle and Tacoma Tacoma Tacoma Ta Ta- coma and Northern Pacific special agents are today conducting a a. vigorous vigorous vigorous vigor vigor- ous search for tor two men who held u uthe up the Northern Pacific's eastbound coas coast limited train No 2 twenty-five twenty miles mile east of ot Seattle last night and escaped escapee after rifling four tour pouches of ot registered mail mall en route to New York The robbers attempted to dynamite the safe in the express car but the their efforts failed and the registered ma mail w was their only loot The two robbers boarded the train at East Auburn ten miles west from the scene of the h holdup When the they climbed aboard the train they eJected from the blind baggage a boy wh who was trying to steal a ride to Ellens Ellens- burg The Tho boy reported the presence of the two armed men on train to a Northern Pacific special agent but th the robbers already had completed the their work Sheriffs Sheriff's posses searched a all night for the robbers