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Show it ' FAST TRAIN I 1 1 Engineer Is Shot When 1 1 He Refuses to Stop If His Engine II ! Grand Fork, N. D.t July 20. Train No. 2, the east bound North coast 9 limited on the Northern Pacific rail- I road, was held up by three masked f robbers near Buffalo, X D., about 11 "' o'clock last night. The robbers se- r cured afoout $500 Jn cash by going through the passengers and shot engineer en-gineer S. P. Olson, of Fargo twice in order to make him atop the train & Ml and made a successful escape In an I I automobile which tho' had waiting near the scene of the robbery. 5 e The performance as executed was JrTJ f one of the- most daring ever perpetra- Jg I ted in this part of the country and te3 T showed that the nien were no ama- Ag teurs at the business, as every niove- 5 f ment was cleverly planned and admlr- 6 I ably executed C'i' k When the train stopped at the high a? bridge at Valley City, the three men id ' boarded it and went into the day Q fz coach. Heavily armed, aud shooting F recklessly In order to intimidate the H passengers, they first lined the train I ' crew up at one end of tho car and k .w . then proceeded to search the passen- X sers in tho day coach one by one. In .f all, they secured about $500 from this 15 x part of the roVbery. Jm Vs e 3eeP'nET cr was entered and ,! in order to awalcen the occupants of '.,' it berths, a shot was fired down the cen-!& cen-!& I ter of the aisle, narrowly missing the (5 head of one of the passengers and 1m- k bedding itself In the woodwork. Ht After searching the occupants of ft the berths, they climbed out of the diner, over tho baggage and express carB to the engine, reaching that part of the train when near Buffalo Thev J ordered Engineer Olson to stop tho 5RI train so they could get off and. when I he refused to comply with their wishes, two shots were fired at him, one glancing off his watch and tho other striking him on a rib, injuring him slightly. After being wounded and seeing that the men were desperate, Engineer Engi-neer Olson stopped tho train and tho three men who were ail masked with polkadot handkerchiefs, Jumped quickly quick-ly from the train and ran Into the darkness. - - Engineer Olson, who is one of tho olde3t engine pilots on the system, was brought into Fargo with the train and is resting at hiB homo there. After leaving the train the robbers went to on automobile which they had waiting nearby and drove off into the darkness. ,The train was run into Fargo, where tho Bheriff, every available deputy and throe deputy United States marshals mar-shals harried jack on a special train to -pursue the robbers. Posses also started out of Buffalo 15 minutes after the robbery was re-pored-, and every surrounding town in the northwest was telephoned or telegraphed tele-graphed to look out for tho robbers. The express and mail cars were no' molested by the men. Jt Is not known what the amount the cars contained, but usually the North Coast Limited carries considerable consider-able amount of money and it is thought that the men took longer in going through the day coaches than they had planned, or thev would have tried to blow up the express safe and rifle the registered mall pouches. One of Robbers Wounded. St Paul, July 20. The Northern Pacific Coast Limited train No. 2, which was held up last nigfat near BufTalo, N. D., arrived in St. Paul at 8 o'clock this morning. The passengers pas-sengers are of the belief that one of the robbers was hit by a bullet, fired by the Pullman conductor, and that this was the reason the robbers di 1 not go through the whole train The robbers proceeded to search the passengers pas-sengers in the observation car, and the last two sleejrs. "While they were , ot work in tii second sleeper, Pullman Pull-man Conductor Belgard fired from tho first sleeper at one of the desperadoes, who was standing guard at the door, t and it Is believed he hit him in the shoulder as he wns seen to wince and the bullet hole showed In the glass door about shoulder high. The rob ; ' bers then Immediately abandoned their work and made for the head of the train Dr. J W Guest of Louisvillo, Ky., occupied a berth in the first sleeper f. robbed and was relieved of $100 in i hank checks Dr. Guest attended Oie h wounded engineer and said the wound U ' is not serious, btng hardly more jWa, than a flesh wound o the lower left ' w breast. B A Mr. Stark of Cincinnati, represen- H tatlve of a harvester concern, was Hi robbed of .$1 50 In bank checks, and S N. V McMillan of Louisville was rob- bed of $100 in benk checks, and $S in H cash. ) |
