The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-09-09
TRAIN ROBBED.
Jesse James and His Gang Stop =
- Passenger Train
And Rob the Express and Passen-
gers-Murders Committed.

st. Louis, Sept. SIN regard to the
train robbery at Glendale last evening
the following particulars are given:
The train (west bound express) had 100
passengers. all of whom lost something,
and some quite heavily. Frank Lom-
bard, the news agent, says: was sit
ting in the smoking car talking with
Conductor Jack Hazelbacker; we were
on an up grade, four miles from Inde-
pendence, when all of a sudden the
train came to stop; we heard loud
cries and pistol shots, and saw lanterns
flashing; we knew train robbers were
present. Hazelbacker ran back into
the train and warned the passengers;
they were all looking ont of the win
dows until the robbers ordered them
to pull back their heads and keep quiet.
The robbers had no Instructions on the
rails; am sure there were dozen OF
them, although some Of the passengers
place the number at sixteen. Every
body was panic stricken and helpless; l
ran out OF the car and found men mur-
dering the engineer and fireman; they
were poorly armed, but all were armed
with heavy rifles; they were swearing
loudly and shooting at random; some of
them passed into the mail car, but did
not touch anything; express messenger
Fox had in the meantime barred the
express car; they climed up on the car,
ran aronnd and began shooting; they
then broke into the car and knocked
the messenger down by a violent blow
on the head; they robbed the safe Of
everything; ran back into the smok-
ing car and hid my money; the robbers
came in; ordered me to lay down; did
90; they pointed revolvers at me and
ordered me to "fork over;'' 1 said my
money was under the cushion; they told
me to get in and get it in hurry; they
then went back to the other cars and
made wholesale robbery of money,
watches and jewelry, some of the pas
sengers saved their money, but a
majority of them lost all they had.
The ladies were compelled to sit down
on the floor and some of them had their
earrings taken from their ears, and
many lost their jewelry. One man lost
$3.50. In the meantime the freight
train was coming up behind us. and
Burton, a brakeman, ran down the
track with q storm Of bullets behind
him, stopped the train, and probably
saved many lives. After the cars were
gone through the robbers jumped of
and struck for the timber, where their
horses were. The men ln:front helped
the train men to roll off the obstruc-
tion and then joined their companions.
l should say we stood still about half
Frank Burton said: was standing
on the front platform of the sleeper
when the train stopped; heard voices
and oaths on the back platform; said,
I'VE are going to be robbed; !" them one
Of the robbers cried out: ssWe are COM
ing in; going through you all" re-
membered that the freight train was
behind US and heard it coming up;
jumped off and ran with my lantern
down the track; the robbers commenced
shooting at me; the bullets whistlsd all
around me and struck the rails and
stones; they must have fired as many as
25 shots. The engineer said: "For
Gods sake don't shoot the boy; he is
saving the lives Of these people" Then
one of them threw up his arm, and they
stopped shooting. rolled into the cut
and w2lvsd my lantern. The train
was stopped only cars length of. .
When came back the robbers said:
"Havs you lost anythingP" ans
wered, "fifty cents.'' They gave me
$1.50 for interest. Then heard one
Of the robbers say to the engineer:
"Choppy Foote, you are too good man
to keep up this business; here's two
dollars to buy a drink in the morning,
and drink it for Jesse James; warn
you that you will be killed If you don't
leave this road; we are going to tear
up and burst the Rock Island & Alton
roads, for they've been offering rewards
for US. We have no grudge against
the Pullmans, and will switch off their
cars and burn all the rest. 1 am the
man who killed Westlake at Winston;
ha mo fr<> an, n ~ a nd 4 ro~v N ~o,,oy~~- q,
Burton did not think it was Jesse
James or any Of his gang; they all acted
green at the business, and he thought
they were men living in the vicinity;
they all seemed to be quite young, and
made no attempt to disguise their
voices. The passengers tell substan-
tally the same story as the above.
Fox, the express messenger, who re-
fused give up the keys to the train rob-
bers, was terribly beaten and cannot live,
Several thousand dollars were taken
from the passengers and from five to
twenty thousand from the car. The
whole AFFAIR was over in fifteen minutes.
The train men made q show Of resist
ance, but being unarmed, could do
nothing. The place of the robbery was
right. in the dense woods, two miles
from any house.
Chief Of police Speeds started from
Kansas City at once with fifty men on
horseback. A special train with a
posse OF men under Marshal Murphy
also went Immediately to the scene Of
the robbery, and large bodies Of men
are being sent out from all points in