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Show : WYOMING; MASKED ROBBERS HOLD TJP THE OVERLAND EXPRESS. Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 30. The rni.vi Pacirht passenger train, second si-ti..;! No. 3, was held up by bandits, two and i ne-half miles west of Tipton statinr.. fifty-eisht miles of Rawlins, last nih: at S:30 o'clock. There were four men in the hold-up. The express and bagag.' car were bloivn open and the saf; blown to pieces. The railroad company com-pany says the loss was nominal. Th baggage and express cars were considerably con-siderably damaged. ; United States Marshal Hadsell. who was notified at Rawlins, organized ; posse of twenty-five men. with hrs--s and ;ent on a special train to the seen-of seen-of the hold-up and are now on th.' trail of the bandits. No one was injured n the train. The Union racitic offered Sl.O'iO reward re-ward for each man. Word was received in Salt Lake Wednesday night that train No. 2, on the Union Pacific, had been held ud at a point between Bitter Creek and Tipton, Wyo., and robbed. The train i.s known as the Overland Limited, and is the fastest on the Union Pacific system. The crime looks like the work of the Robbers' Roost gang. It is thought by local railroaders con- t , versant with that rart of the country that the criminals arranged thing.s so as to have horses waiting for them at Tipton. Their work completed, it would be easy for them to compel the trainmen to allow them to eet off at that point With their swag, jump on their horses and get away as they have done before. It 13 Impossible to tell at this tim what booty the robbers secured. Whether they robbed the passengers from one end of the train to the other or whether they contented themselves with securing the valuables in the express ex-press car will be learned today. It has never been the custom or members mem-bers of the Robbers' Roost gang, in their previous exploits, to take tny-thing tny-thing from passengers. So far they hav only looted the express car, appar- ; ently considering this the fairer and j easier game. Every effort was made " ! to learn the particulars of the affair j last night. It was reported, however, that the wires east of Green River, which is j this side of the scene of the hold-up, had been cut or were out of order for j some reason. j Probably as anxious a man as could j be found in Salt Lake at an early hour S this morning was J. W. Rogers, gen- eral superintendent of the Pacific Ex- . press company. It is over the Union ; j Pacific that this company does the bulk of its business and Mr. Rogers was naturally fearful that his corporation 1 had sustained a heavy loss. j He said at 1:30 o'clock this mornins that he had been notified of the rob- j bery. He had had no details what- j ever, though beyond the bare an- nouncement of the fact. j "My message is from the railroad 1 officials," said Mr. Rogers. "The tele- j gram merely states that the train was ! held up at a point between Bitter Creek and Tipton in Wyoming. I am i preparing now to leave for the scene j of the' robbery by the first train in th? j morning. j "Of course I have no mean3 of tell- j ing what the robbers got from our j com pan y. We have no waybills here ; i or any other means of checking up the : stuff that was on the train. It will ; probably be several days before we can j know with any accuracy. I am sorry i that my message was so meagre as I am very anxious myself to learn all the details of the affair." |