Show 10 0 00 0 tOt 0 00 0 0 01 Train Bandits Kill kif Four In Cold Blood Trainmen Shot Down I Brutally Clerk In Mail Car Blown Up Robbers Stop Southern Pacific Train As It Emerges From Tunnel Murder Because They Recognize Bandits Dynamite Coach and Then Run RunAway RunAway RunAway Away Without Gaining Loot REDDING R EDDING Cal Oct The 2 1 wooded peaks of the on the border between Oregon and Cali Cali- California Cali- Cali California California fornia are believed to shelter today a little group of men who yesterday afternoon held up Southern Pacific train No 1 13 3 slew three trainmen and the mail clerk and caused injuries to about a score of passengers explosion whereby they forced their way into the mail mail car They got no loot sea Oregon counties counties f are e seeking t them cm Amon mong r the lh Jare ar Ore Oreon on National Eua hL j From all available Indications Indication tho the n were Shot hot 40 doWnIn cold bl od because they recognized I nixed the ho he robbers whom whom officials believe are ar former em- em em Plo cs or al nl any ny rate rat men nen men nith Ith the th operation of trains and with the th country around Tunnel 13 1317 17 miles mUes mile south fouth of Ashland Ore where the tho holdup was wa staged NE J NEVER lt HAS CHANCE The mall mail clerk never had a chance for tor hi his life Ho He ed ed himself In his car ear and the th rob rob- robbers rob robbers bers bars either threw a fused siv she through a window or set et off offa a blast at the door In an effort to I gain entrance The car was waa wrecked mall mail pouches bunt burat and I andI torn and a stove inside over over- overturned over overturned I turned Fire Fir followed follow d Whether I the mall mail clerk wa was burned to death or died of the shock of the th eX- eX X cannot be b determined His body was stas charred beyond recognition recognition recognition All the mail In the car was destroyed PASSENGERS CUT The Th concussion of the th blast shat- shat shattered shat shattered windows wind In cars farther larther back In the th train and the th flying glass as KB responsible for the th pas pas- passengers passengers pa neer Injuries The Th train emerged from the tunnel running slowly lowly Because a bridge crew brew waa was at work In the neighborhood trainmen at the rear of the th train felt no hension apprehension when the th train slowed down men cien 0 en more Then several veral shots hot woe we heard A it moment or two came late ame the tho explosion The draft dratt through the tunnel l sucked the fyme of dynamite back Into the tunnel and they seeped d Into the cars care car r nd rendering more horrible a situation which already had thrown passengers In some som coaches coache Into something very neata near neat a panic MURDERED Conductor C G Merritt who was attempted at In charge chars of ot the th train at at- at tempted to quiet the th frightened passengers and then rushed toward the engine accompanied by an- an another another an another other trainman T They ey found S L Bates Bl 65 of Dunsmuir Dun Calif the engineer and Marvin Song Seng 2 28 of ef Ashland Ore Oo the th fireman tire man lyIng beside the th engine cab on the ground Each had been shot ahot through the th head and apParently had died instantly Near their th bodies lay Coyle Coyl 0 O Johnson Johnton 40 of Ashland a brakeman not on duty who ho ho had been ben riding on the train Apparently he h had rushed to the th engine ahead of ot the th two trainmen and had been shot hot He died bullet from the th effect effects of ot tour lour but but- bul let wounds wound In his stomach The Th body of ot the tho mall clerk Elvyn Ashland land E Dougherty 5 35 5 of ot Ash Ash- land was wa In the th burning mall mail car POSSES FOR FORMED Authorities at Redding Treks Yreka Siskiyou Calif and Ashland Ore Oro Or Continued on Pace Two I Trainmen Shot Down j Brutally Clerk In I Mail Brail Car Blown Up UpI l I Continued Continual from Page Pago One were nero notified l and posses II e formed under Sheriff Andrew Andrlw Calkins of sheriff Terrell of Jackson county Oregon and Prohibition Enforce Enforcement ment Oft eelS Officer S S ban lefer of Jacksonville Ore The footprInts of three men hollered t to be the bandits cre found leading a away aay ay from r the scene and the po over the Pacific highway and oth- oth last oth-last last night were ere trailing them over I the mountainous territory in the A guard was established or er road roads near SIskiyou IN At Al Sno S to after the hol holdup ul an automobile Was waa reported to have passed through h Ashland traveling north at a high rate of ot speed The machIne Is said to have contained l two men who authorities believe may have been the bandits Rail road nail road men at ou recalled hav hay havIng haying having ing seen two men aboard the ten ten- tender ten tender der of the engine at that place be- be before before be before fore the tho train entered the tunnel and their descriptions have ha ha e been given gh en to the authorities The tunnel was ns ns cleared at 8 S o'clock and traffic c resumed 1 |