| Show ES mow four or robbers stopped a great northern passenger biec biew up a safe the Conte sits aad escaped Sf airle wash oct S five and dollars reward is offered liy the C ea northern express company tc r lif ca lure and identification of the badica who held up aej he eastbound flyer north of ballard last aboh four men are to have been implicated at least two working around the train ehtle two v open the safe in the t cor the story told by the two bos now ia ahe everett jail that they were merely stealing a ride and had nothing 0 do with the robbery Is now generally believed the sheriff and deputies today found an abandoned horse and wagon about three miles and a halt north of the scene or alie holdup the h orso was badly spent and showed evidences of having been hard used the officers believe this as the outfit reported yesterday moraine as having been stolen from the barn of G vf calhoun near kent kent Is full twenty allos from the scene of the robber division superintendent scott gives out a statement this morning that so baci as known in carfi was taken from the safe no statement has yet been made regarding express matter tacoma wash oct 3 an averett special to the ledger says the great northern overland due here at monday night reached everett at 1215 this morning the delay was caused by one of the boldest holdups hold ups in the history of railroading on the pacific coast the holdup hold up occurred just south of the brick yard near balgard BA lIard which ia located near tha ten mile post three dynamite shots were put into the through sate the robbers working until before they finished the job they worked over an hour and a halt most of the contents of ibe through safe were secured express messenger anderson says he does not know how much they obtained but says they left some ot its contents in the wreckage the local safe was not touched no ono was injured seriously although a continual fire of revolvers was kept up stories differ as to the number of robbers engaged in abo job there were at least three there may have been four or even more A torpedo on the track first attracted engineer calders attention then another torpedo explosion occurred and then a red light was swung over the track the rain caused the engineer some apprehension as tho track near abo point of the holdup hold up is troubled with mad slides he brought his train to a stop walls slowing down his attention was called to a robber standing over fireman borett with a gun in his face almost at the same instant another robber held a gun over tho engineers face tha bandits were masked wore rubber hats and rubber coats they had crawled over the tender As abon as the train was stopped these robbers took the engine men off the and back to the baggage car where they compelled express messenger oharles andersen to leave his car they compelled obedience in a rough manner using their guns with good effect but fortunately wounded no one they at once began the dynamiting express messenger anderson and the engine men were compelled to remain with the robbers and watch the proceedings three charges were fired tho first wasa was a affair six sticks of dynamite used the second contained twelve sticks and the third eighteen sticks i the car and most of its contents are a total wreck there was cons delay between shots when the work was getting under way after the train had been stopped and especially alter the first shot was fired a number of the passengers attempted to go forward to witness operations erat ions but their movements wera halted by fire atom revolvers A high bank was at the ot the train and the waters of puget sound closet up to the track on the west side their bullets through the baggage car all struck it diagonally the bead brakhman started back down the track several shots were fired at him but he extinguished ills lantern and kept going he thinks he had gone half a mile when he was halted and instructed to return to the cacti by one of the bandits who had been stationed back of the wreck conductor fon ductor grant managed to leave the train in spite of the hall of bullets he extinguished his light and remained where he could observe operations unable to proceed toward the scene of their operations after the bandits had left the scene the trainmen attempted to tap the wire to report and this caused further delay 0 o attempt was made tp rob the pas seagers of whom were si ricken throughout the ordeal two young fellows about 19 who balm lalm to have been stealing a ride on lie blind baggage when the train was hald up are in jail here they were hf u iff up on the train they give i n mis aa frank alfred and re f ad C they say that they assist n r ine bandits to get on ehg v i it slowed oo 00 iha say thi y were ordered td get back aboard the tran when the robbers began th car work the bandit shoving guns in their faces railroad detective kyan says he believes one of them Is babe little a character well known to the seattle police brank mccandless formerly of and tacoma was a passenger mr mccandless says that after the holdun ona of these young fellows went through a number of the passengers by passing his hat he went from passenger to passenger exclaiming come help us out all same holdup hold up anyway while all of the passengers contribute some of the panic stricken women did mccandless says he saw one woman who it fath e everett give some money he thinks the two obtained 15 to 20 in this manner the baggage car 18 a masa of wreckage great holes are blown through the ide on which the safe stood and through the roof and it Is filled with a non discriminate mass of wrecked contents of trunks fresh ash and other things usually carried on a baggage car former state horticulturist von a passenger he had a dog in the baggage car but the animal was a apparently uninjured the wrecked car was taken through with the train A train left everett with railroad officials and detectives immediately after the passenger passed through the robbers were masked there 18 a theory here which is given considerable credence that they camo up from seattle in a launch and went back in the launch immediately after the robbery some of the passengers on the train say they saw the lights as of some craft and that soon after the robbers left the lights disappeared |
