| Show I I TRAIN ROBBERS BLOW UP GARS CARS COACH BLOWN UP ENGINEER FIREMAN BRAKEMAN AND CLERK CLER DIE Explosion Sets Fire to Coach No Passengers Hurt Posse In Pursuit Bandits Bandits get no Loot Hilts nUts Calif Two ban bandits who boarded boarde the tho southbound Southern Pacific San Francisco express as It entered a tunnel near hero here shortly after noon Thursday killed three trainmen stopped slopped the tho train and ana threw a bomb borni Into the mail car kill kill- lug lag the mall mail clerk and anti wrecking the car The explosion wrecked the mail mai car ca carso so completely that no loot was obtained by the bandits Four cars care besides the mail car were damaged so that they were removed remO from too tho tunnel only with difficulty Railway Hallway said they saw two men Inen board the train just as I it itI entered the tIle tunnel It If la JR h ed werl that the tho ban bandits ts either were railroad or former former former for for- mer railroad men and killed the tho trainmen when the they were reco recognized apparently before they hind hall stopped tho the train The mail man car had been barricaded by the clerk who refused to let the bandits enter Attempting to force an on entrance they threw the explosive sive through the window The railroad railroad rail rail- roa road at the entrance of the tunnel seeing the train stop am and hearing the tile explosion thought the boiler of the en engine ne had exploded They started to investigate ate and meantime the bandits its disappeared Sheriff Calkins ins of Yreka who arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at the scene shortly after the holdup found the tracks of three men leading over the Hie hill away from the wreck The belief that the holdup men were familiar with the operation of trains was strengthened by indications indications indications indica indica- that the bandits first l killed the thc en engineer incer and fireman an and then stopped stopped stopped stop stop- ped the train |
