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Show A DARING IU)IilERY. DANDIT8 HOLD UP PASSENGER TRAIN IN WYOMINO. Ilif.l !; nsmltr In lllow Open ths Kale, ana Wrt-ek llfl.t. anil Srtrral Cars Nonft f Hie raMfiifrr Mer aiulest-xl tor Itobbers- Cheyenne, Wyo., June 4. Justbeforo daylight Friday morning, In tie midst of a drenching rain, tho Union Pncltlc west bound passenger train was held up,' about n mile from -Wilcox. Tho robbers blew up the express car with dynamite, severely wounding the engineer, nnd then escaped to the mountains. moun-tains. According to theofllclnlsof tho express company, the rohbersobtalncd only n nomlunl rcnard forthcirdarlng crime. A posse, under command of tho sheriff of Carbon county. Is In pursuit, and the officers aro confident of capturing cap-turing them. Tho bandits, six In number, num-ber, are believed to bo incuibcra of tho "Holc-ln-the-Wnll" gnng. Tlie train was thu westbound passenger, passen-ger, also rnrrjlng mall and express. It was running In two sections, the first section being the one held up. This section consisted of two mall cars, a baggage car filled with overland mall, an express car and two well-filled passenger pas-senger conches. This section wns duo at Wilcox, at 5:00 n, m , but It was a little lute. It had passed Wilcox and was flagged by a red light between Wilcox and Aurora at 3:18 It was at n point 3D3 miles cast of Ogdcn, or 133 miles west of Cheyenne. A the train reached the brtdgo ono of tho robbers crnn led Into tho cub and at tho point of a gun ordered Engineer En-gineer Jones to pull across the brldgo nnd atop. Mcnnn Idle, the others of the gang were at work In the express car. Just as the engino pulled off tho brldgo thero wns a tremendous explosion explo-sion that scattered the express car for n hundred feci In every direction. Tho end of tho mall cur wns blown In and several stringers knocked out of the bridge. Engineer Jones was slightly Injured by filing debris. It only required a few minutes for the robber to rifle the safe, which was blown open by the explosion. They took Its contents, signalled their confederates con-federates on the engine, nnd before thu passengers and tho train crow were aware of Just w hut had happened wrroollfor the mountains. It required re-quired two hours to clenr away tho wreck so that the train could proceed to Medlclno How, tho next station, from ivhfch the report waVsenL Tho passengers wcro not molested by the bandits, and tho only person Injured In-jured wns tho engineer. A reward of 8 1, 000 each for tho arrest of the robbers, dead or alive, has been offered by tho express company. |