Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-01

voice, anu Win mucn profanity, dlVe
US those keys-give US those keys, or /
will blow your brains out Give US the
money, or I'll blow you to-. We want
money! Where's them safe-keys-quick,
er some of you'll get killed" At the
same time he pointed his pistols close to
the heads of the astonished listeners.
Where's the bullion--give us the bull
lion" Then he shouted TO his men:
Rush in and help! Come on Such a
set of robbers as you are--rush in and
helpp Some one told Burgess to give
the scoundrel the safe key, and he did
so. The fellow unlocked the safe, the
men at the door telling the inmates that
if they stirred they would shoot their
heads of. The chief robber seized a
satchel belonging to Burgess, and cram
med the safe packages into it, and as he
did so he said: Here isn't half as much
as we want where's that bullion? Give
us that bullion p By this time be was on
his feet. Mr.. Killingsworth poined to
the bullion on the floor, saying, "There
it is under your feet" The robber re-
piled, ave don't want them things
give us the bullion, or we'll blow your
brains out" He evidently did not know
what bullion was, aad supposed it was
coin, and that there were bags full of
GOLD in the safe. The gold and silver
bricks on the floor he thought we're moth
ing better than lead. At last the bold
villain thought it time for him to leave.
So he picked up Mr.. Killingworth's
satchel, containing register books, a
package of letters, and few private ar
ticles, and babe the whole five get out
before him, at the same time pointing
his revolver at two of them, and telling
the men at the door to keep sharp watch.
Out the five gentlemen walked, and then
for the first time got view of the wreck
THE ENGINEER SHOT.
The chief directed them around the
place where the engine lay at the time
expressing the hope that nobody was
killed-they did not want to kill any
body all they wanted was money. He
asked if anybody was killed-and lust
then Burgess saw the engineer sitting
between the engine and the tender, both
on their sides. He went up to him,
found that he was dead, and told Mr..
Royce SO. The head robber expressed
sorrow, and really spoke as if he meant
it, and repeated his remark that they
did not intend to hurt anybody. Then
the robbers all went off toward their
horses which were hitched about hun
dred yards south of the track, and
mounting them rode away toward the
southwest. Mr.. Killingsworth felt GER
tain, however, that only FIVE of the rob-
bers were mounted. In fact he saw but
FIVE, though others said there were sew
en-, all told. They did not run to their
horses but went in deliberate manner,
and went across the country just as de-
liberately.
The passenger coaches did not leave
the track the forward trucks of the ad-
vance coach, went off and that was all.
The passengers there were three
coaches of them - heard the firing and
shouts of the robbers, and then, with the
noise of the crash in front, we're all
brought standing and thrown about gen.
orally by the smsshup ahead. The Chi
nese all lay down flat ON the floor and
were in that position when Mr.. Glare
went down to them. Some of the pas
sengers, after the train stopped put their
heads out out of the windows, and the
scoundrels on the sides of the cut fred
down and told them to stay in or they'd
be shot. Several stepped out upon the
platforms and were told to get back,
and not liking the looks of the revol-
vers leveled at them, they obeyed. A
few got off at the rear and started to run
away, but the robbers called to them to
come back We don't want to hurt
you," and the passengers returned, and
were told to get into the car quick,
which they did.
A PLUCKY OLD GENT.
There was one plucky old gent who
, got off the rear platform and started
toward the engine. A robber told him
, to go back. He told the robber to go
the regions below and called him a
scoundrel, and cried to the passengers
TO :" come out and 60 for the Williams and
) not let them rob the whole train!" But
, nobody was infected by the old mans
heroic conduct, and he stood and vented
: his Indignation at the villain on the
: bank. The firing was almost constant
. from its opening until the leader gave
/ the call to put for the horses. The fel.
!. lows on the banks kept firing down the
, embankment, without taking aim at any
: thing. The death of the engineer, the
t brave John Rafferty,, excites desire 70,
| vengeance, in the hearts of all who hea,
the story; there was report yesterday
+ that he was not killed by pistol shot
! but that his neck was broken when the
f engine turned over. The account of his
8 fireman Dennis Foley, as Mr.. Killings
worth heard him relate it, renders ii
pretty certain that bullet did the
work. Foley says he was shove,ing
f coal into the furnace and was bending
q with his face to the door when Rafferty,
n pulled his Westinghouse brake, and
t then fell across him (Foley) and sank tc
g the floor of the cab. The fireman asked
: Jack, how is this?" and Just ther
: the engine went off, and turned over
1t Foley was sure the fall of his engineer
5, vas before the displaced rail was reached
e After the smashup and the robbers
n had gone, there was general outpour
/ ing of the passengers. Some of the la
Q dies, who had been frantic with terror
e came out pale as ghosts and still trem
l. bling, and several of them wept like