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Show GERMAN PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM A SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN ARRIVING IN OGDEN TODAY Two German prisoners being brought to Fort Douglas from the west escaped at a point on the Southern Pacific, between Wells and Moor, No-, vada, during the night, according to' Eugene Spafford of San Francisco who arrived in Ogden on No. 6 this morning. morn-ing. The prisoners, he said, were members of a party of. ten being brought to the fort by four guards. As soon as their absence was discovered, the train was stopped at Cobrc and a search was started which consumed an hour. They wore not found, however, how-ever, and tho train started again and at Montello the guards and tho remaining re-maining eight prisoners left the train. The prisoners wore locked in the jail at Montollo and the guards wired back along the line, giving instructions for the organization of search parties. It is reported this morning that every part of tho ground between Wells and Moor and the surrounding country Is being searched for the escaped Germans. Ger-mans. Escape of Prisoners. The prisoners wore from Chile, South America, and from Manila, P. I., and had been taken into custody by the United States government on the outbreak of war. They were ordered interned in the Fort Douglas prison camp and had been transferred to San Francisco and were enroutc to Fort Douglas when the two escaped. Mr. Spafford stated that the guards had been watching their charges in relays of two. Two of the guards were in the smoking compartment, he said, when a portor. passing through tho train, reported to the' other two t.hat the vestibule door, where the prisoners were kept, was open. The prisoners were occupying a tourist sleeping coach with other passengers. An immediato investigation disclosed disclos-ed tho fact that two of tho prisonors 'woro missing. The train was stopped and tho guards aided by other passcn-'gcrs passcn-'gcrs started the search. A train of boxcars box-cars was searched and the country immediately im-mediately surrounding Cobrc, but no trace of the missing men was found. |