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Show NEVADA BANDITS MAKE BIC HAUL - Blow up Safe of Bullfrog Railroad Company at Goldfield and Get Away With Content. Watchmen Are Overpowered and Locked Up In Box Car While the Robbers Dynamite the Safe and Secure Contents. Suspicious Characters Arrested. Goldfield, Nov. Robbers visited tho freight depot of tho Tonopah-Qoldfleld & Bullfrot, railroad, Thursday morn ing, overpowered tho watchmen ana blow open tho snfo, securing everything every-thing of vnluo it contained, amounting to severnl thousand dollars. Tho freight depot is the old passenger do-pot do-pot of tho railroad, located a mllo nnd a half from the centor of tho town, on tho bluffs to tho northwest, distant a quarter of a mllo from tho nearest dwelling. Two wntchmon wore on duty at opposlto ends or tho ynro, whllo an operator was at work at tho depot. Tho watchmen wero capturod ono nt a time, and thrown Into box cars and then the operator was1 overpowered. over-powered. Thero wero nlno of tho robbors. Three watched their prisoners whtlo six did tho work nt tho depot. Thoy dynamited tho safo and tho work wns so neatly dono ns to Indicate that tho men wero professionals. Tho safo doors wero blown opon, but not another an-other thing In the office was disturbed by tho Jar. Tho robbers soon left, but their prisoners woro not nblo to re-Icaso re-Icaso themselves until about three hours later, when tho first alarm was plvon. Tho robbers secured $1,200 in cash, of which $200 belonged to R. W Brooks, tho agent of tho company, nnd mining stocks to tho value of $5,000 which also belonged to Brooks. Severnl persons havo been taken Into custody on suspicion of having been connected with tho robbory. |