Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — FIGHT TRAIN BANDITS [ARTICLE]

FIGHT TRAIN BANDITS

Crew of Atlantic Express Route Robbers Near Denver. Union Pacific Employee* DriVo OB Gang—One Outlaw Wounded During Gun Battle. Denver, Colo., Nov. 18.— Police ano searching for armed men who last night attempted to hold up and rob Union Pacific passenger train No. 104, east bound, at Sandow, six miles east of Denver. Eighteen shots were fired by the outlaws and members of tbs train crew, who, since the Carlisle train robbery in Wyoming, have been armed. One es the assailants is believed to have been wounde They escaped 111 an automobile which was waiting near the siding. V Three of the outlaw party, believed to have numbered six men, lagged the train, and as it pulled to a stop they approached the baggage car. A brakeman, armed with a shotgun, jumped from the train and when the robber* opened fire he replied. Others of the train crew also opened lire. In the meantime Rock Island train No. «, bound for Kansas City and Ob cago over the same tracks, came up behind. A flagman stopped the train In time to avert a collision. The Roch Island train’s rear coaches were derailed as it passed the Sandow switch. Railroad' officials believe the switch was pulled while the train was passing over it (Train No. 104 on the. Uni<m Pacific is known as the Atlantic express and operates between Portland, Ore., and Kansas City.)