| Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC HELD UP express dynamited and reduced to a wreck robbers said to have obtained train crew lined up before masked men and made to obey orders los angeles oal sept ll 11 the T west bound southern pacific express which was held up near cochis araz arrived here on time the express car Is a wreck and shows the effect ot the dynamite used by the robbers how much they secured is not known but the amount is not believed to be in excess ot mall clerk C B adaar who Is a special talked freely about the holdup he said we were just ready to pull out ot when a door of the car waa thrust open and a man with a black mask covered me with his rifle and yelled throw up your hands instead of throwing up my hands I 1 jumped back into tho car ho commanded me to come out and you can bet I 1 did the next thing I 1 knew was that I 1 was standing on the platform in line with the station agent mall clerk fireman and engineer they made us all leold up our hands and while one ot the robbers searched us the others covered us with their guna then they blew up the sate with dynamite taking plenty of time for the work after they got through plundering the car they told us we bad better not go away for fifteen minutes and they started back toward cochis about seventy five yards arom the track just as they left some one fired five shots these were the only ones fired during the holdup mall clerk C R mcewing tells substantially ly the same story as adaar neither of them know how much money was taken |
