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Show f!0LDUP ON RIO GRANDE Narrow -Guagc Train Looted by Masked Men Near Marshall Pass in Broad Daylight. Safes in Express Car Blown (o Pieces By Dynamite and Contents Taken While the Passengers, One Hundred In Number. Were Lined Up Alongside the Track and Compelled to Give Up Their Valuables, firiml Junction Colo Jiilv II Triln .No 315 of iho Dmiff & nio OrHnlo inirow Kince Mcm uastlnunit tint loft Nalldx lhl mornliiR-. n held up nt s Wnilnrk till. mnriiliiR wlirn teiin miles this lrt of Miirnhall liif, mul whllo itMirntttnK tils hill nt Mow iippoil hy llo mnskcil mtn, who ntter tho tobliers raripnl Into tho mountains. H,rrs mows 10 imkcjm The tafrs In tho exfrcts lar Tcro blown to piece, nnd the contents utic Bathere 1 up by thi- robber There weie a number of Is lle on the train nml the moat Intense excitement pre-alleJ pre-alleJ one or two of them falntlnfv About nn hour was rnnsiimcil 111 hoM Inp up the train bloln& open the ifc nml robbing tho paenper The "l.frlrt ftt Hnllila nml nherllT of iiAJoln-ng iiAJoln-ng counties wero notineii of tlio 10b-ber 10b-ber and a dozen posses urc In pursuit of the robber one miNDiino l'Assr.Nnnnq Thla train nrrled in Orand Junction four hours late At tho time of the hold-up It carried ocr InO ptaaenKers, manj of whom cot off nt liunnlson Montrose, Delta nnd trintforrcd for Pan Juan points Those who cama through to this clt were mostlj tourists tour-ists bound to Suit I.ilp and Callfor-nh Callfor-nh The train was runnlnB In two sections nnd tho tlrst neitlon In ilnrRo of Knirinrcr Huhlln nnd Cnnilui tox Ouerrln wus bioiiKht to a stan lstlll by a pile of ties nnd rocks l.ilil upon tho tracks UKAD nilAKEM N S BTOHV licid llrihrmin o V I'.irton, who was rldliiK between the hiEKiKe and express ex-press enrs, nao this ateoutit to a Tribune iepisentntle I heard the signal to slow up ami poked my head out from between the enrs tn sen what tho trouble wn. when a man In a white ms.sk stnndlnK some dlstnnic Intk fiom the track pointed his Winchester nnl Ilred at me, siluu '(let b ick in there, jnu ,' nnd I did so onni:iir,D to i:pnKs) c,n. ' rravelliiff ImRinetr liasklns ins riding on tho engine nnd they not lilm, Hnitlneei Ituhlln and the litem in nit anl Kiur Ituhlln snmo stltks of Hlant powder and nrdcrotl him to ,o back and blow up Ihe door ofthe cxpicss iui lie wns slow, and they lursnl him nnd pokel hint with their Winchesters, there, belli: thiee. men who did the operating oper-ating and two w lulling with Winchester Win-chester In thtlr hand nomiKHH iii:avii,y aiimiid. "All cinrlel W'lncln stern and Colt's reiolieis all wore oieralls high-top boots, without spins, slouch hats, loose-nttliiR loose-nttliiR shirts that looked bleu lied out, and all were iom letejy m iskcd with homo white cotton stuff no moni:v in turn "Tho express nRent Coffej .opened tho door and threo of tho robbers went In und after three attempt blow open tho safe There wnsn t a dollui In It noth-Ins noth-Ins but some rallrou I tickets Tho robbers rob-bers cursed their luck and then s-ild thej would take the pisst-nRers in. WAIlNIiD PASSENdllltH "I Jumtid down ind warnul the passengers pas-sengers llnre was a hoi l-up lleforo I left the had iclleied liasklns of his Rold watch and ono of them broke tlio stock of his Winchester mer Ituhlln s head Injurlns him seriously The sent riremnu JIers back Into tho cars to older all passengers out and to line up on the track " SHOT AT KI.AOMAN riasimn Thurman said ' When tho train stopped I Jumped orf to run Inn k nnd flaR tho seion I section I took only n few steps when a man with a nun off on the si le clled nt me to turn b uk I kept KolnR when ho shot Into tho ground right In front of me I then walked hick to where Ouerrln stood VAI.UAHM:H-THnOVN IN SACK ' Threo of tho robbers then camo to the reir nnd two walked up to wheie wo stood nnd thiew down an sack and told mo to walk down tin line of pis-seiigeis pis-seiigeis nml iecelo their nlwibles, T hero nun no senrchlnR of p-issenRer. but neat Is tiery one put in something such ns money uatcho nnd Jewelry took jio.vmr and Ji:wi:utv 'A I'likaRo wonnn threw a ill imond ring at tha fiuk It went wide and was not leioiend that I know of One woman put out 15, sajlng That In e. cry dollar I hae' The tobber Raic her back J Another woman handed out 13 anslns thut wns her t'le It went Into the iik but the lobber look S3 from the next msseui;er and gait) it to tho woman rini:n at i:NoiNi;i:n "In the meantime tho second section came up and a shot was Hied Into tho cab narrowly mlsidiiR i;nglneer Yates After tho looting was all over the pis-senger pis-senger were driven bnck Into tho ar I'ASSI'.NOKItS Hit) VAM'AHU:s ' While they were dynamiting tho express ex-press safe, many of tho passengtis standing on tho track bid inonej, watches and Jewelry in tho dirt A l.aku Clt Colo man who had J:;00 nn him escaped nt the start and walked back lo Mm shall Pass before ho stopped The triln wns sent on down In biTKtnls ns soon as tho train pipe was lepalied tho robb rs standing on thu track until It got under way Wo did not see am horses HinnnN pjiopiiitTY rtnrovKur.D 'The robbers used a good deal of violent vio-lent language Tho leader of th( Ring was the smallest of them One of tho number is oier six feet tall and very stoop or round-shouldered Alter wo ran down to Hargents we got nil those together who had hid their valunbles In the 'Hit nnd r ill buk to the secne of tho hold-up i:erj thing was found as left As nearly an we lould estl-mato estl-mato tho hold ups got In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of JMo and probably much more In Jewelri A possi of flo depuMes left Sargent early after tho lobbeij was leported theio nnd nro supiosed to he on tho trail of the bandits i'nder Sheriff Snodgrasn with twenty denutlis left this city this evening heaiilj nrmed and with good horses A special train coniejed them to the seme of the hold-up Conductor .Mike Ouerln be-lleicn be-lleicn the rohbeis went south toward BaRuache 8T.OHY OF A PASSnNOI'R One parseiiker a joung min whose name was not learned gave un Inter-tstlng Inter-tstlng story He sas that most of the passengers had secreted the prin cipal part of their money nnl valuable valu-able ono unit J300 before the 10b-lieia 10b-lieia requested them to hand them oei bout twelve watches were taken tak-en beside considerable rush One passenger wns lobtnd of JloO. another an-other of JS5 Valuables were thrown In the Rrnss and an) plarn whtio they eould bo hidden Hi:cni:Ti:i) in coat, nox. It 's sild that ono pnsseimer bid n thousand dollar In tie oil box of n. loach covering It with eoil Vnother nttrmpted to run to the woods with his Rrlp, containing jio je was spied bj one of the lobbcrs who requested him to turn ovei hi cash whlih he ill! An old gentleinnti who hud t3 made for n small house near the track When al out half was there be was halted and relieved of his precious burden DID NOT TAKi: AM., Two women who handed over to tho bandits 1J0 and Si', eath minnged to legnln suftUiont couuigo to nsk for a part back, stating that It was nil they had Ihe bindlts politely returned lo ono J10 and the other J5 lir 1' I) Sanford nnd wife of Gunnison Gun-nison weie among the passengers The lost some inonev Hon T J O lon-nell lon-nell a well known ntlnrne anl Dcm-ocrith Dcm-ocrith pollthliii nf Denver, wns en the train lie bared the file of his fellow pnsKngeis Tho robbers weio cool mil deliberate, with the exception of one, who nppenreel somen hut nervous. nerv-ous. itm-man PoitTun's nPcnn:Ncn The lMllninn porter wis relieved of n gold waMi and MS nnl sail to The Tribune rej rtsontntlve that 'the robbers rob-bers scale 1 passeiigeis lij shouting that the) wire i,olnK I" blow up all tho car Pissencers rushed nut pell-mell and were afraid tn hi lo valuables In tho e no Imi ncinin fainted nt tho sight of the robbers with gun IJnih mnn woio twn levnlvers Some pnssengera iiliii hid weipnns inn Into the brush nnd bid tliem HAN INTO llOIIlinnH' AHMS. ' One ol I man currying his money In a Rrlp ran Into the woods and remained there until he heard the cry nf 'AH aboard' when he rushed on! Ihe rnb-hers rnb-hers leveled their rlllcs nt him. and ho ran Into their nrms They took all his money Ono mall I saw put live twenty-dollar twenty-dollar bills Into the sack. Tho second section of tho train was merely n light engine I saw tho feature of ono lobber when the wind blow tho mnsk aside Ho wns smooth-faced, thlii-featuied, brown hair and prominent nose 1 would rec-oinlte rec-oinlte him If I saw him " ri'I.l.MAN CONDUCTOR HOI1P.I5D Tho Pullniin innductor wns relieved of somo monoi. They did not lake tho conductor m watch ihe leaders seemed tn be educated men and wero well spoken. They showed no nervousness und were not In a burr), nnd laughed und Joked during tho hold-up, whlih ouupleil about twcnty-llvo minute ' I mid them my wateh was no rood," said the Pullman porter, ' but they looked at It and said lhe could usii It In theli business The hold-up incurred In ii wild-looking spot, at a deep curve In I lie road. At that place thero I only one point of retreat nnd that to tho south The top nf Iho rufo was blown entlnly off No one knows what they got In tin) safe, a nono but tlio robbera wero In the car. Thc can led tho contents of the safe In h separate nk and seemed well pleased wllh It They nil acted like refulnr robbers nnd handled guns Iensll). Kueli wore twn cartridge belts no suspenders I think they were old hands nt Iho business" |