Show rio grande depot robbed burglars entered the rio grande depot at this place last sunday hyght and after balov ing open the site s c ceedee in getting away with about 50 50 in currency and some checks representing 80 25 the entire door of the eafe safe was blown off with nitro glycerin and when the igent edward dugan opened up the depot on monday morning the place presented a demills demolished ed a appear pp ear ance a one piece of the t a e d door had bad crashed into mr D dugais uga a typewriter comple completely tel rulilo ru ruining liln tb thy machine and the office furnishings were scattered and damaged af after ta going n through fa the sate safe the bu ga glare I 1 left t without v t h 0 u t d dis i a the ma iyre ly weight ight and express packages the depot m way entered through a window in th freight e 1 room and the time of the e explosion ej 1 ion was fixed by the tel telephone e phone t the he re receiver ca having been blown off the hook sa s1 s artly after midnight and this caused a ring in the central office of the telephone company miss sullivan the night opera or tried to answer the phone when the ring came in and failing sh she e plugged up the connection to prevent a continual ringing thinking I 1 that something m nas as wrong with the line the checks which were stolen may prove a valuable clue to the identity ot the burglars if an effort is made to pass them the powder from which the nitro glycerin was secured the caps and fuse were undoubtedly stol en from the magiline magi zine at the may day mine which was as burglarized the night previous to the wrecking of the afe and this indicates that the job was handled by someone who la is entirely familiar with local conditions four years ago when the same safe was blown open powder with which to handle the job ob was undoubtedly stolen from the magazine magazin at this same mine at any rate the place in the powder was stored waa was broken open a couple of days previous to the dated date upon which the safe was opened ghis would seem to indicate that the parties who robbed the depot on S in day night were also implicated in the robbery of tour four years ago agent dugan asin is in the habit of banking the money each daj and there is never any very large sum in the safe at the depot by robbing the place on sunday night the burg lars no doubt f cured that there would be a pretty good sum in the safe as the agent coald have no opportunity of banking sunday a receipts but at this season of the year the travel out of eureka on sunday is not heavy |