The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-30

A gentleman who was one of the pas
sengers on the train that was robbed on
the Union Pacific road at Big Springs,
Wyoming, lately, sends the following racy
account of his experience
We rolled up to Big Springs depot as
usual. The night was beautiful and the
moon shone brightly. AS the train stop
ped, went out on the platform of the car,
where l found an Omaha merchant and we
stood and talked there about two minutes,
when there suddenly appeared before us
on the ground four masked mon, with
cooked revolver in each hand aimed direct
ly at us. At first thought it was some
Joke, but when the devils ordered us into
the car g. quick" and to hold up our
hands and make no break" and called
us hard names, / concluded it meant
business" and another look at those
eight revolvers, which just about that time
looked like mountain howitzers, convinced
me in less than weeks time that the
evening air was unhealthy, and we had
business inside Immediately.
In other words, got, quick. AS l closed
the car door two shots were fired at my
friend, hitting him twice in the hand, and
taking off about foot of the door casing.
That satisfied him, and he took an inside
berth tolerably lively. Well they sta
toned one man at the front end of the car,
one at the rear each with two pistols, and
to each Of the remaining rufiians was al
lotted the pleasant task of robbing row
of seats, which they proceeded to do each
after his own original style.
The first man robbed was drummer
from New York house. He was ordered
to "stand up, hold up his hands, keep his
mouth shut" and the search commenced.
They took from him $3.50 and gold watch
valued at $500. The next man had only
one arm. The gentlemanly villain that
was searching him happened to notice the
empty sleeve "H-," said he, have
you only got one arm?"
"Only one, sir, replied The man.
swell, take back your stuff-we don't
want your money. Sit down and keep
still"
1t was rich scene--about forty men of
us sitting there quietly to let four masked
scalawags go through us that way but
what could we do? Not revolver in the
car except oDe, and that at the bottom of a
valise. There was no use for any one to
make a start there were several ladies in
the cars. The two men at the end of the
cars covered everybody nearly with two
cooked revolvers, liable to go off at any
moment, for their hands trembled violent
ly, showing that they were themselves ex-
cited. So we obeyed orders to a certain
extent, but not fully.
didn't. had my hands up the most
OF the time, except when l wanted to use
them down, because it was sort of relief
to my arms to change them from their
usual position, but found time TO put my
pocket-book with $400 in it down behind
ladies' work-basket, who occupied the next
seat, after doing which walked back
four seats and managed to get my watch
and chain off and down behind my valse
and the car floor, after which little per-
formance my hands were up, and up good
and steady. I then had nothing on my
person that l thought the thieves would
take except about ten dollars in coin in
one pocket, and l finally worked up a
scheme to beat them out of that. The
man who was robbing the seats opposite
me was much more expert than the other,
and got away ahead of him. After he had
passed about four seats from me the
other way got up leisurely and crossed
the isle, and took seat with a man who
had been robbed, and the villain whose
plain duty it was to rob me, overlooked me
entirely, so was not touched, and was the
only man in the car who was not "gone
through"