Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-13
BY WIRE TO-DAY.
A Fiendish Atrocity on a Nov
ing Railroad Train.
An Express Messenger Mur-
dered and $4,000
Stolen.
A Chicago aad Rock island Expresa
Car the Scene Of the
Tragedy.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Street
Car Line Operations Inter
rupted by Strikes.
A DARING EXPRESS RoBBERy

fl BULLETIN.
Chicago, March 13-The express car
on the Chicago and Rock Island train,
which leaves the city at 10 o'clock p. m.
was boarded by robbers at Joliet at i
O'Clock this morning. Kellog Nicholas,
express messenger of The United States
express company was killed and
money and iewelry valued at $780,
900 were stolen. Nicholas attended to
Joliet. but when the train arrived at
Morris, twenty miles beyond Joliet, he
did not open the door of the car. The
local agent, VIM. Norris, forced open the
end door and found Nicholas lying dead
on the floor of the car with his throat
out from ear to ear and
horribly cut aud crushed. The baggage
man was found bound and gagged in
the next car; the safe was broken open
and its contents gone. AS trains do not
stop between Joliet ana Morris it is
approximately certain that the robbers
boarded the cars at the former place.
THE PARTICULARS.
Joliet, Ills, March l3-One OF the
most daring and bloody express rob-
berries ever perpetrated in Illinois &C.
Cured on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Paoiic west bound
express last night between this place
Morris. The facts as learned from the
bo pn,0apa /. tbot cbort)y aftar tho
train, which leaves here at 1915 o. M.
had left this city he heard q rap at the
baggage car door and thinking it was
the express messenger he opened the
door and was met by masked robbers
who covered him with their revolver and
demanded his key to the express car.
The key was given up and one of the
robbers, who was on top of the baggage
car, held his revolver on the baggage
man through the transom in the roof of
car, while his confederates turned their
attention to the express Car. 1t is thought
they raped on the express car door and
informed the messenger, kellogg, that
the baggage man wanted to get in. At
any rate the express car door was
opened and the desperadoee entered.
Being confronted by the mnrderous
villains the messenger fought for Lis life
and property in his trust. The interior
of the express car shows that he fought
the robbers from one end to the other.
but at last the blows that they rained
onihis head with an iron poker forced
him to succumb, and he was,l left dead in
the car. The thieves rifed his pockets
of the keys to the safe wh1oh they
robbed of all its contents, variously
estimated at from $4,000 to $25, 600.
Checks and valuable packages not con-
tanning money they left scattered about
the floor. Nothing was known of the
occurrence until the train reached
Morris, the first stop west of here, ex-
cept at a coal chute where the train had
to take on coal. At
Morris the local express mes
senger raped on the express car
door, hut as the was not
answered it was thought the train mes
serger was asleep. Upon the door of
the car being opened the horrible evil
dence of the desperate struggle and the
dead body of messenger Nicholas were
In one hand the dead man
a lock Of dark colored hair,
must have been torn from the
head OF one of his ASSISTANTS.
News was at once telegraphed to
city and Sheriff Reitz and Chief of
Murray at once organized a posse
and started On q special engine for
Morris. stopping oa the way at the coal
chute, two miles west of here to see if
can find whether desperadoes
boarded the train at that point. Snow
was falling lightly at the time and the
racks, if any, were covered. A large |
'orce of officers and men from this place
md Morris are now securing the coun.
Try.
The news of the robbery Of the bag
gage car and murder of the express
Messenger produced the greatest excite
nent at the Rock Island Office this morn
ng in this city. Division S%uperinten-
lent Chamberlain vas in receipt of a
lozen dispatches detailing the partieu-
ars of the affair. The officers of the
Dad held a consultation and il was
greed to send special detectives on the
rack of the rufians at once. The Rock
alsn5 road viii offer q reward of ten
thousand dollars for the capture of the
nen.
LABOR TROUBLES.