The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-07-25
car convcrsing with friend, when no
felt The application OF
Tur0A IRBRAKE.

felt The application OF
TnrluRBRAKE.
He wondered for q moment what IL
meant. there was no station there, ana
something must be amiss, or the tra,h
would not stop in that lonely locality lie
iumped to his feet, but had hardly STOOD
up before lie felt
THE suoCK
caused 10y sudden stoppage and simuI'ane-
ously The car was thrown from the uach
against the embankment, the ioor ihelh-
inc at nm angle Of thirty degrees. lie was
nitcbea against the side OF the car, the
pridge of his nose collidlng with the
.tanchion, causing a painful wound which
bled copously. lie was
BorGHLY SHAKEN UP AND STUNNED.
Recovering his faculties, he saw what he
described us ~ very powerful mixture OF
men. baggage, bullion, and express pack
ages" lie heard the sound of shots, sup
posinr il to be torpedoes. Stepping from
the car to the bank to ascertain the cause
Of the trouble, he was met ty two men,
MASKED ANp EQUIPPED WITH NAVY RE
voLNERs,
one in each hand. One of them remarked,
"G--damn YOU, yet back into that car.
Get back. or III Kill you" Accepting the
pereinptory invitation no got back rs Tar
~ the door of the ear, when another masked
nan. standing inside, also with revolver
in his hand, observed, Get out of here,
G-damn you get out of here OF I'll Kill
YOU lie got out, bewildercd between two
threatening fires. lie went out on the
platform again. Another armed ruiiian
point ID pistol from the other side CT the
car. and using the same explosives, advised
him to get in out OF that or he would Kill
him.
BULLET wuIsTLED FAST HIS EAR,
and Mr.. Royce retired into one OF tho pas
senger coaches, remaining there until the
| highwsymen left.
In tho meantime three of the robbers
had
CAPTURED THE EXPRESS CAR,
| where they expected to find from thirty to
dtty thousand dollars, the amount usually
carried on through trains. The route
,gent, Killngsworth, WAS scarcely con-
fused 10y the conclusion. Burgess, the ex-
press messenger, was raising him from
where he fell, when the robbers entered
Gao of them acted us sentinel to stop any
oue from coming in, another held cooked
c pistol 10 the eXpressmans head, while thu
n third demanded the KEY of the safe. Bur
n gess, finding discretion 10 be the better par
=, Of vslor, aud that it was useless to resist
" handed over the key, with which the rob
o Der
o OPENED THE SATE
/, and took out money packages amounting
IN all to 81, ZOO lie was appointed at tn
small amount, and demanded information
g. hs.rs o 4.
a | ger replied that there WAS no more. Tn
a robher called Burgess by foul and mast
epithet. Burgess then volunteered I,
| prove there was no more money by open
ing the package box. The robber cut som
: of the packages with a knife, and was en-
ragged ut finding they contained nothing o
value. There was u
LARGE QUANTITY OF BULLION
on board, but it escaped notice. A mail
hag was taken ur and an effort made e
cut it, but not thinking it expedient to los'
time with letters, the thief threw il aside
While the messenger was being cross-ex-
amined by one of the road agents, another
invited killingsworth TO
| YORK OVEN HIS poCWET-Book AND KNIFE,
and no did so. The car WAS then evacu
ated, the thieves scaled the embSnkment
mounted horses and galloped away in
5 southerly direction, disappearing ut one
/ in the gathering gloom.
/ THE RoBBER GUARD.
, While the car was being ransacked, foul
men with navy revolvers, two on each side
of the train, kept guard outside to intimi-
date the passengers and prevent them
from interfering with the operations OF
their coniederates. The passengers were
alarmed, not knowing the moment volley
would be poured into the windows or how
long they had to live. Some adventurous
heads were pointed out, when the high
awaymeu with horrible profanity ordered
them to disappear inside, or they would
send u bullet into them. A passenger
asked if they intended TO
KILL INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
when one of the robbers answered: "If
| you get back we won't hurt you. We are
! not pretty robbers. We are big robbers
! We take from the rich, from those who
are able to lose, for the use of the poor.
! We are grangers by c." Mr.. Royce
says the reference to grangers was Pick
wickian. The passenger took in his head,
and no others vcntured to put theirs out.
THE FATAL FART OF THE BUSINESS
| was enacted At the moment the engine
struck the gap in the track. A volley was
fired into the engine. Dennis Foley, the
fireman, who was STOPPING down shoveling
coal into the furnace, SAW the engineer
shut OF the steam with one hand and put
on the brakes with the other. "Jack,
what's the matter ~ shouted Foley, and
then he heard crash, fusilsde Of shots,
! and Jack fell over on him dead the wood
and coal on top of both. When Foley, who
was bruised and stunned, came to, he ex-
! tricated himself and his faithful comrade,
| who died at the post Of duty. No marks
] of pistol-shots were found upon the body,
/ and it is thought death was caused by con
/ question.
THE HEROIC ENGINEER,
Mr. Royce said he could have sworn that
| Rafferty, shut of the steam and applied the
brake, and ho knows the thought Of saving
the hundred lives that rode behind him
WAS the last that entered the mind of the
heroic Rafferty, lie says that Rafferty,
was one Of the most careful, faithful, and
brave men that ever Travelled over an iron
road. He had been in the service of the
company FIVE years, during which he
gained the confidence and respect of his
employers The remains were brought tc
: the CITY, and taken home to the boreay I'd