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Show IOWA BANK HODUGD. Itobbars atan.l (Iff riflr tlllaena Who Wit neaaetl lha Itobbtr The safe of the bank of Hheldahl, Iowa, waa blown up Friday night by robbers, who secuied 81,000 and escaped, es-caped, after holding Ufly or more cltl-rent cltl-rent at bay with rltiet. Hhortly after midnight a tcrrlfle ex-plosion ex-plosion thook the town, and Immedl ately the Inhabitant! turned out to learn the cause. A glance up the main street showed the building of the savings sav-ings bank to bo lu ruins and the timbers tim-bers burning, Fifty citizens rushed to the place to be met by two rifles In the hauda of two etraugera, who ordered them to halt Aa the ruins burned brighter, two other ttrangera were deicrlcd looting the wrecked safe. Tha crowd bail brought uo weapon. The two robbers ou guard threatened death to the man who moved from his tracks, and the helplcsa clllien were COtUDellcd to witness Lha rnblti-ri- nti thoirtavingt without llftlog a hand In remonttraneo. When the two robbers who wero looting the safe had accurrd all tha money available thry Joined their two confederates and with leveled rifles the four marauders lined up the band of cltltens who stood with bauds held as high aa ordered until the four robbers had backed away loto the darkness and fled. The bank building Is a total wrtck. The lost Is estimated at 83,000, In addition addi-tion to the 81,000 accured by the rob bera. No trace of the robbera haa been discovered. |