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Show HOLD-UP OK THE CREATNORTHERN Bandits Turn Engine Loose After Looting Car and Cause Wreck, Twelve Being Injured. Four or Five Men Were in the Party, It Being Reported That They Secured Se-cured at Least $20,000 for Their Night's Work. Spokane. Wash. In the hold-up of the Great Northern passenger train No. 3 between Colbert and Mead shortly before midnight Saturday night, twelve persons were Injured when the engine and mail car, run "wild" down the track by the bandits after they had rifled the mails, collided col-lided with the remaining cars of the train. The bandits detached the en-tine en-tine and mail car from the train, ran them down the track a considerable distance, and then, after the registered regis-tered mail had been opened, sent the engine back to collide with the standing stand-ing cars. The conductor saw the wild cars coming down the track at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour when they were a considerable distance away, and he and one of the trainmen train-men placed a tie on the tracks In an endeavor to stop their wild flight The engine and car were partly stopped by the tie, but plunged, into the standing coaches . When the train reached Colbert some switching had to be done. While the engine crew was busy a1 the work1, two men suddenly appeared in the cab of the engine and, thrusting thrust-ing a revolver against the body o. the engineer, ordered him to do as commanded. The engineer and his fireman obeyed. The car was coupled on to the train and it pulled out. After the train had proceedd a few miles the engineer was ordered to stop and he and his fireman were forced to dismount dis-mount from the cab. i Two of the four rjr five men that were seen then went to the door of the mail ear and ordered it to be opened. Their command was obeyed by the mail clerk. Meanwhile two other bandits were with the engineer and fireman, who were uncoupling the mail car and the locomotive from the rest of the train. Hastily climbing into the cab, the outlaws opened the throttle and dashed dash-ed down the tracks how far is not known. As soon as the conductor was aware that there was a hold-up. he ordered a hrakeman to the rear of the train to prevent a collision, and he had another hrakeman cut the telegroph wire and send word to Spo-, kane. A th'ird member of the train crew was hurried to the station with the news. It is reported that the bandit obtained ob-tained a large sum of money from the registered mail the amount being (placed at $20,000. |