River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-15
THE VILLAINS AT WORK.
The Glendale. Mo. Train Robbery Re,
peated near Independence, Mo.


A special dispatch from Kansas City
of the 9TH inst. says: Tonight another
most daring train robbery occurred
few miles out of Kansas City. The
west-bound passenger train on the
Chicago and Alton road, when two
miles west of Glendale and four miles
east of independence, was stopped
and the express car and all the passen-
gers robbed. The robbers had placed
a number of ties on the track at the
top of long upgrade. They stopped
the train, signaling it with a lantern.
Immediately upon stopping the engine
the engineer and firemen were ordered
from their cab, taken some distance
from the car and placed under guard.
Some robbers entered the mail car,
took the mail clerk and placed him
with the engineer and fireman. The
mail car was then thoroughly ran
sacked, but nothing was taken from it.
The passengers, by this time Curl
Gus to learn the occasion of the
delay, began opening windows and
looking out. They were greeted with
yells from the robbers and ordered to
close the windows Immediately. While
such commands were being given the
robbers commenced firing into the ex-
press car, and demanding, with oaths,
that the messenger, a Mr.. Fox, open
the car. The messenger did not COM
ply, and the robbers, eli nbing to the
windows of the car, began firing through
them. Others with heavy pieces of
wood attempted to break the door down.
The messenger, finding it useless to at
tempt to keep the men out, opened
the door. The robbers entering knocked
Mr.. Fox down, striking him on the
head, seriously injuring him. The rob
bers then took his keys and went
through the safe, taking all that was in
1t. Three men, after the express car
had been robbed, entered the smoking
car. They ordered all the passengers
to sit on the floor and hold up their
hands. One rohber stood guard at the
door while the others began searching
the occupants. While the robbers
were going through the mail and ex-
press car. and were shooting and yell
ing outside, the conductor, Mr.. Halle
baker, realizing the situation, went
through the train, told the passen-
gers what was going on,and advis.
ed them to hide all their money
and valuables. Consequently, when
the robbers began searching them,
some, needing the advice, had hid
den all their money. The two rob-
bers searched the passengers, but few
were IN the smoking car. Then the
robbers entered the chair and Pullman
cars. In these the same orders were
given that had been gwen in the smok-
ing car
The brakeman tells the following
story: Il was standing or the front
platform of the sleeper when the train
stopped, and | heard voices and oaths
on the back platform. | said in q mo.
ment, we are going to be robbed.
Then one of the robbers cried out, we
are coming in and going through you
all / remembered that the freight
train was just behind us. and / heard
it coming up. | jumped off and ran
with my lantern down the track They
commenced shooting at ME. The bull
lets whistled all around me, and struck
the rails and stones. They must
have fired twenty-five shots. The en-
gineer said, For Gods sake don't
shoot the boy; he is saving the lives of
these people, They stopped shooting
l rolled into the cut and waved my
lantern. The train was stopped only a
cars length off. When I came back,
one of the robbers said: "Have you
lost anythingY" | answered: "Fifty
cents" He said: "Show me the son
of a =, and will kill him." He gave
me $3.50 for interest. Then 1 heard
one of the robbers say to the engineer,
'Choppy Foote, you're too good a man
to keep up this business. Here's So to
buy drink in the morning, and to
drink it for Jesse James. / warn you
you'll be killed if you don't leave this
road. We are going to tear up and
bust the Alton and Rock Island Roads,
for they've been offering rewards for
us. We've no grudge against the
Pullmans, and Wen switch off their
cars and burn all the rest. am the
man who killed Westlake at Winston.
He was too smart and drew a revolver"