A photographer was at work in Craig Colorado, where he took a photograph of the students of the school there, which must have been a unified (all grades) school. He also photographed the athletic teams of Craig and Meeker.
On the same day, a band of teenagers in Omaha pulled off what was, up until that time, the largest train robbery in the United States, taking over $3,500,000 in fresh United States currency being shipped from a mint. It involved breaking into into a train car and then departing it at its first stop, where there was a waiting car. So it was a planned thing.
In current dollars, that would amount to $46,000,000.
They burned most of it shortly thereafter, although some of what was taken was in the form of coins. The amount of money must have spooked them, and therefore they didn't profit by their crime and, in the end, the US really didn't lose much.
Not to condone theft, but burning the cash was really stupid.
