The Springdale news., 1888-12-21
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY.

An Illinois Central Train He'll Up Near
 Duck Hull, Miss. - Tho Express Car
 Robbed of Three Thousand Doilars-A
 Passenger, Who Attacked the Robbers
 with Rifle, Shot and Kiled-The Rob
 bers Escap pc to the swamp.
 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. IA special from Grenada, Miss. to the Picayune says that two white men stopped passenger train No. , on the Illinois Central railroad near Duck Hill, Saturday night, robbed the ex- press car of 5000 and shot and killed Chas. Hughes, Of Jackson, Tenn, Q pas senger, who attacked the robbers with a rifle. When the train was leaving Duck Hill, two men boarded the engine and commanded Engineer A. J. Law to run fast and not stop until told. The engineer and fireman Geo. Evans were covered by navy revolyers and had to obey. When a mile north of the station the Ill n ordered the train stopped and the engineer and fireman were made to dismount and were marched to the express car. One or the robbers knocked on the car door, and Messenger Hill opened it. Three shots were fired at Hill, and the men then en- tered tho ear and took all the money there was-S3,000. Conductor r. B. Wilkinson, who rushed out on hearing the firing and to see why the train stopped, was fired on, and being unarmed, returned to the train. Charles Hughes, of Jackson, Tenn, passenger, then ran out with Winchester rifle. As he stepped to the ground he was shot at One ball struck his left arm, aH other went through his stomach, infieting fatal wound. Tae death Ot the yQaeg man was very sad, as he was the only support of his widowed mother. He came to Lexington, Miss. Saturday. to meet his
 
 of whom were on the train, and were greatly distressed at his untimely death.
 The robbery was done in the regular highway style. Nine shots were fired by Conductor Wilkinson and Passenger Roban, three by Hughes and four or five by the robbers.
 The following description of the robbers is furnished by Engineer Law: Both were white men. One was tall and sien- der, and the other was of ordinary size. Both were poorly dressed, and showed themselves to be hard characters. The tall one wore sandy chin whiskers, and Law is in doubt as to whether he had a mustache.
 Express Messenger Hill gives the fol- lowing description of the robber who eu- tered the ear: He was a tall man. and Wore a white sloueh hat He had no beard on the side or Ills lace. he mask covered his face below the nose. He had large niekeI-platea pistol, which looked unusually long. The bore was very large, and the barrel was round, apparently for a cap and ball. The man had dark hair cut very short. It tlooked as if 1t had been cut by a country barber. He wore gray suit of ordinary clothes. He put ths stolen money ill a sack larger than the one used on the express ear, but of the same materiaE Both the robbers were masked.
 The plain where the robbery occurred is an open low marsh, fifty yards from the woods. The men fled eastward into the swamp. \ posse is being organized at Grenade to join iu the chase after them. Bloodhounds will be put on the track. The description of the tall man with sandy whiskers would answer for that ot the man who recently robbed train oa the Northeastern road.