The depot gave the gunmen good protection but it didn't take much to figure that soon more men from the town would show up. They needed to move and do it fast. When the next train pulled in the outlaws used it for cover. They then dashed across the tracks to a large corncrib. There, they took shelter.
Not too far from this corncrib stood a shed. Here, the operator of the local grain elevator, a Mr. Bush, had hitched his horse earlier that morning. Seeing the possibility of an escape, one of the outlaws made a dash for the horse. It was a big and costly mistake.
Posseman Mike Collins quickly aimed and fired at the bandit, hitting him in the leg. The outlaw's progress now considerably slowed, a second bullet struck him in the stomach.
About that same time a farmer named Peterson pulled up with his wagon. The remaining two outlaws made a dash for it, firing over their shoulders as they ran. They safely reached Peterson's wagon, jumped aboard, and ordered Peterson to "lash his horses and head out of town." The two outlaws had made their escape-at least for now.
Now a silence spread through Albert City. Marshal Lodine, who was bleeding severely, had pulled himself into a nearby root cellar. Lodine soon died, as did his friend Sundblad. The outlaw also was dying.
The two bank robbers that had escaped in Peterson's wagon made it to a cornfield just south of the nearby town of Laurens. It was there that the posse caught up to them. After another exchange of shots, the two outlaws surrendered.
Gun Battle in Iowa continued.
