On This Day | Shootout At Sawyer
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The little city of Sawyer located fifteen miles southeast from Minot on the Soo, was the scene of a Jesse James raid Sunday night about midnight, and the entire town looks like it had gone through the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Sawyer State Bank was blown to atoms, and robbed of $4500. Brassett & Lund’s hardware store was broken into through the front door, the robbers getting in with a key and taking the following: one Iver & Johnson 38 calibre revolver and one 32 calibre revolver. A Harrison & Richardson revolver, 32 calibre. A second-hand Stevenson No. 25 rifle, Winchester shot-gun, three corduroy coats, one black and one brown dog-skin overcoat.
Early in the evening the robbers entered Aug. Sigerstrom’s general store thru the front door and stole five fur coats, and a revolver, a searchlight and breaking the cash register took $1, all the money that there was in it.
Sigerstrom learned that his store was being robbed and he entered it thru the rear door just as the robbers left thru the front door. It is lucky for him that he did not come a little sooner, for likely he would now be a dead man had he done so.
At Bassett & Lund’s store the robbers took all the ammunition that they needed.
Promptly at twelve o’clock, the robbers began shooting from the four corners of the main square of the town.
The robbers shot fast and furious from twelve o’clock until half past three o’clock the next morning. For nearly four hours the citizens were terrified.
— October 25, 1906 | The Ward County Independent
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