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Show THREE BOYS LOOT TRAIN Youthful Bandits Rob Train and Escape With Big Booty Muskogee, Okla., Ocl 29. Three youthful robbers held up a southbound MiBSourl, Kansas & Texas train south of Eufaula today, compelled the engineer en-gineer to detach the express and baggage bag-gage car and run them ahead. They then blasted and rifled tho express safe. Company officials say they lo-llevo lo-llevo the robbers got several thousand dollars. By setting fire to a trestlo near Wlrth the bandits had no trouble in flagging tho train Although the flames threatened to destroy the trestle before their work was accomplished the robbers moved deliberately. Covering tho engineer and fireman with their revolvers, the ordered them from the locoinotivo cab. J. A. Dolan. tho conductor, leaped from a conch and was lined up besldo the enginemen. A porter also foil a victim to curi-osltj curi-osltj and was made to stand by the conductor. Whilo one robber hold the trainmen tho other two uncoupled tho engine, baggage car and coaches. Thej then forced tho trainmen into the cab and ordered the engineer to open the throttle. The engine pulling the two cars shot across tho burning bridge. What remained of tho structure fell Into the water a fow minutes after the cars had passed A mile on the other sldo of the bridge the bandits ordered tho engineer engi-neer to stop. The safe in tho exprosc car was dynamited and the robbers fled to tho woods with their plunder Express officials fear several thousand thou-sand dollars was stolon. Tho alarm was given and posses were sent from Crowder and Eufaula Other posses left an hour later on special trains from McAlester and ; Muskogeq. According to the descriptions descrip-tions given each of tho bandits was ; less than 25 years old. |