Show ATTEMPT WRECK OF 0 P TRAIN TRAIN IS STOPPED WITHIN FEW FEET OF BOXES OF HIGH EXPLOSIVE robbery Is 1 believed motive for unusual attack near wasatch 0 utah engl engineer neer palls falls bandits ogden utahan utah an attempt to blow the union pacific train no 29 the continental limited from the tracks and kill more than of its passengers near wasatch utah tuesday night september twenty third was foiled by engineer pearson who brought the train to a stop within a few feet of two boxes of dynamite laying on the track according to information given by sheriff J C dark clark of summit county wednes wednesday I 1 ay attached to one of the e boxes was a pote note scrawled in a rough hand it read you will all be killed in ten minutes if you dont put off all the registered gist ered mail and money on the boards beside the fire away from the track we will blow you all to hell bell burn you with gasoline we mean it no boolin it if anyone wishes to speak with us stand ly by the fire by the track and talk proceed with the train when two shots are fired engineer pearson parson brought the train to a stop two miles west of wasatch when he noticed a fire airi burning in m the center of the track investigating he found the two boxes of dynamite one five gallon can of gasoline two smaller cans of gasoline and the note attached complying with its instructions engineer pearson is said to have stood in the designated place fixed by the bandits and conversed with them this is a first class train and not a mail train he is reported to have told them the alleged of the deed then told him to move the dynamite from the track and proceed removing the dynamite from the tracks he climbed back into the cab and proceeded to evanston wyo where he reported the affair the attempt to dynamite the train and to rob the mail is placed as one of the motives of the holdup ono 20 sheriff darks clarks said wednesday railway officials however elpi expressed essed the opinion that the dynamite had been placed there by a demented person officers believe that the alleged dynamiters dyna miters intended to hold up train 26 which follows no 20 by two hours and which carries all the mail eastbound when the report of the dynamiting was received at evanston armed guards were placed on no 26 and it moved ai A a snails pace between ogden and evanston tuesday night it is thought that the dynamiters dyna miters became frightened and escaped when their fuse failed to work on no 20 efforts by the sheriff of summit county and other officers in wyoming and utah to locate any of the men alleged to have placed the dynamite on the track have so far proved fruitless |