| Show WW HOLO UP ON TH THE chiat bandits turn engine loose after loo looting ting car and cause wreck twelve being injured four or five men were in the party it being reported that they secured at least for their nights work spokane Sp wash in the holdup hold up of the great northern passenger pae train I 1 no 3 between colbert and mead shortly before midnight Batur S dayt night twelve persons persona were injured when the engine and mall mail car run wild down the track by the bandits after they had rifled blued the malls mails col ildon with tho the remaining cars cara ol of the train the bandits detached tho the engine and mall mail car from the train ran them down the tae track ft a considerable consid emble distance and then after the regis mall mail had been opened sent seat the engine back to collide with the stand aland ing cars cara the conductor saw the wild cars coming down the track at the tate rate of twenty five miles an hour when they were a considerable distance away and lie he und and one ot of the trainmen placed a tie on the tracks in an endea endeavor to stop their wild flight the engine and car were partly stopped by the tie but plunged into the standing roaches coaches when the train reached colbert some switching had to be done while tho the engine crew was busy ati at the work two men suddenly appeared ta in the cab of the engine engene and thrusting a revolver against the body na n the engineer ordered him to to do as aa commanded the engineer and hla his fireman obeyed tho no car was coupled on to tho the train and it pulled out after the train imin had proceeds edd a few miles the engineer ana ordered to stop and do be and his fireman were forced to dismount from the cab two of the four our or five men that were seen been then went to the noor floor or of the mall mail ear and ordered it to bo be opened their command was obeyed by the mall mail clerk meanwhile two other bandits were with the engineer and fireman who were un coupling the mall mail car und and the locomotive from the rest of the train hastily climbing into the cab the outlaws opened the throttle and dashed down the tracks how bow far Is not known As AB soon as aa the conductor was abaro that there was a hold ut he ordered a brakeman to the rear ot of tho train to prevent a collision andl ho he had another brakemen cut tha telegraph wire and send word to i kane A bird member of the train brow avas the news it Is reported that the bandits obtained a large larg e sum ot of money cronl the registered mall mail the amount being placed 1 at |
