Show TRAIN IS HELD UP op AND ANDL L PASSENGERS ARE HURT MASKED MEN fiET Twelve Persons Injured When I S m. m Engine and Mail Car Run Run- Run Run-I S. S ing ing Wild ing-Wild Wild Crash Into Coaches Stalled on Main Track S 7 SS s BLOODHOUNDS AND MEN ARE PURSUING ROBBERS t. t iF Engine and Car Are Cut Off OffiS' OffiS iS' iS 5 From T Trains Train rain Mail Pouches r. r r Were Rifled and Locomotive Locomotive tive Toward Coaches fv TRAINMEN SAVE LIVES Lf ES Spokane Wash May 16 16 Six masked bandits secured over when they held up and robbed Great Northern train No 3 west bound early this tins morning morning- The robbers detached the engine engine engine en en- gine and mail car from the train and after running up the track a mile and a half during during- which time they rifled the registered registered registered reg reg- mail bags bag's they disembarked disembarked disembarked barked reversed the engine which vent went tearing tearing- back towards towards to to- wards the stalled train and made their escape k 5 r E Twelve lre p persons s were serious serious- injured ure d by flying and splinters when the wild engi engine and car crashed into the balance balance balance bal bal- ance of the train That many wore worA not killed was as lIu Iti duo duoto to tho action acton of ot Conductor C. C L L. Robertson Roe Rob ertson who seeing the lne liable collision col col- had hati his hs trainmen place ties tics on th the track in an endeavor to derail 01 or leson lesson the of ot the runaways The and man mall car ctr were partly J stopped b bv by tho the ties but plunged Into S the standing train l Posses with bloodhounds are arc scourIng scourIng scouring scour- scour Ing the entire country countr hut but up to a late lato hour tonight the bandits have not been cen apprehended Those Injured In the collision colliston wore S 1 L. L Winans Lansing Mich lIch slight cut cuton cuton on hand hanti Mabel Bodini Colfax Wash bruised nose Mrs Irs D D. B. B Sullivan Columbia Falls FaUll Mont cut on eye ee k Mrs II IL A A. A Rico Rice Elk Wash ash bruised f r on cheek I. I S Thomas Thomaa R R. Hayes Wallaceburg Ont Oat left log leg e broken broleen T T. N N. Wilson Spokane three ribs S. S broken Mrs Mra Williams slightly bruised austine cut over eye i l' l Sam r Bonners Ferr Ferry Ida s bruised on chest S D. D II U Harmon Spokane bruised r r thigh h f c Karl Icari Spokane cut on onCY eye i CY W. W I D D. Grippe Whitefish Mont head headS S bruised t. t o Engine Cro Crt When hen the train len left Colbert two men I suddenly appeared in the cab and pointing pointing- revolvers at Engineer William I II I 1 Miller and Fireman John Hall BaB ordered c them to do tO as commanded After the train had Irto progressed ress d a 11 few miles tho the engineer was ordered to stop and he andS and S the fireman were forced to dismount from the cab Two other robbers then ordered Benjamin Benjamin DenI Ben Den jamin F. F Stumpf to open his mall mail carThe car I The command was obeyed Meanwhile tho the other bandits were uncoupling the theS S mail car and the locomotive from tho the thorest thorest S rest of or the train When hen the train ri Conductor Robertson Jumped d from the car but was driven back by bythe bythe bythe holdups the shots shot of at the climbing Into the cab the Continued on Two Ino TRAIN IS HELD UP AND PASSENGERS PASSENGERS ARE HURT Continued From Inge One robbers opened the throttle and dashed down tho the track Tho The conductor re realizing rE re- that the train was being held up or ordered a brakeman to tho the rear of or orthe r the tho train to prevent a collision and had another cut In tho the telegraph raph wire to send word to Spokane of the affair Another of tho the train crew hurried to the tho station with the news About half halt an hour later the en engine lne and mall mail car were seen coming coining back down the tho track and preparations w wore re made mado to ditch them Reports seeping through to Spokane tonight from the tho wild country surrounding surrounding sur stir rounding the scene of tho the holdup tell tellof tellof tellof of the covering co of ever every possible route possible route of ot escape by city and Spokane county officials The robber robbery was one of the most thrilling thrilling- In this part of or tho the West WestIn TeslIn In years It Is thought that E Ed C. C Red McDonald McDonald McDonald Mc Mc- Donald a a. notorious train robber long long- thou thought ht dead dea who was Vas concerned In Inthe inthe inthe the theft of from the tho Great Northern Oriental limited near Rond's Siding Mont three months a ago o was the ringleader in this mornings morning's hold hold- U up p. p When entering tho the train at Newport last nl night ht T. T N. N Wilson a a. Spokane man who was Injured Injure In the wreck was its 31 approached b by an unknown man and Informed that Red ned McDonald l the bandit had been seen In the vicinity the tho day before Wilson lIson was told toM that the train on which he ho secured passage was to be held up before It arrived at Wilson scoffed at the warning warn- warn InS InS' ng thinking the man demented demente or In In- In Less than an hour afterward afterward afterward after after- ward how however over the tho train came camo to a astop astop astop stop with a bump and the robbery was on Two special train loads of or officers were vero hurried led from Cram Spokane when the word was received Doctors were vere also taken aken out on the train to care for tor th the we uni tied ed Chief Ryan Ran of Hillyard went out with witha a posse and surrounded ed all ahl of the tho roads oads leading leading- toward Spokane Several shots hots were heard b by the tho posse east of them Help was sent out from lull lull- yarI ard and the train was brought ht to Hillyard at about o'clock this morning Tho two hand bandits Its who climbed limbed Into he tIme cab are described as follows One over oer six feet tall taU II weighting weighing Ing- Ing pounds face aco wrinkled and l. l 5 years vears old or older and an experienced engineer The Tho other about five o feet nine Inches tall taU and anti weighing about pounds Both Doth wore dark clothes and slouch hats and anti wore were masked As the they en entered entered entered en- en the cab the tall taU man remarked to the engineer You have heard of at us before In Indicating indicating In- In that the they had been Involved In others of the numerous train holdups holdups holdups hold hold- ups perpetrated In the time vicinity of or Spokane within the last few months I was working the mall mail when the train came to a a. stop said saltI B D L L. Stumpf tho the mall mail clerk who was waa also tho the mall mail clerk clork in the holdup more than thana a year ago alO when a pseudo Inspector boarded the mail mall car at Bonners Banners Per Fer I r ry Idaho and bound Stumpf and th tho j other clerk and calmly tiled i-tiled tho the malls mails while coming conning to Sp Spokane kanc where ho homade homade homade made his escape I I 1 opened the time door In re response pon e to a knock an and found foun two short men standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing Ing- there each with revolvers ers They Jumped into tho the car and or ordered ored mo me out I obeyed with haste find anti the engine and mall mali car cal soon pulled pulle out with the time bandits on board It must have bave been fully Cully 35 minutes mInute's before beCore the tho en engine and the mall mail car carcamo carcamo camo came running back bal wild When I ex examined ox- ox the Insl inside p of the car I found It In a frightful condition on All of time the man mall sacks had bad been ripped open and their thc contents scattered over the car J |