The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-03

day, where he Will take position as clerk
for Stringer g. Poore. Mr. Griffin is NOV
ing for the purpose of sending his children
to school. We regret to give them up, but
at the same time we know they will be a
help to Belton. LITTLE WRttER.
Two Trains Held Up,
MOBILE, ALA, September 25.-Tbe
Mobile and Ohio Southbcund mail and
passenger train was held up at 3:lo
o'clock this morning By train robbers at
Buckatunna, Miss, station seventy
miles North Of Mobile. The train wa:
due here at 6 8. m.
Just before the train left Buckatunna,
two men mounted behind the tender OF
the train, and, climbing over, covered
Engineer Sack Tberrel and Fireman
Thomas Hust with their revolvers. The
robbers were disguised with red bandanna
haudkerchiefs over the lower part of
their faces. The leader ordered the engi-
neei to pull out and stop at q bridge two
miles below Buckatunna, and to place
the train 30 that the express and mail
car should be on the further side OF the
bridge from the rest of the train, the
bridge being a trestle over deep creek.
"You obey instructions, or it's death, ;"
they said.
The engineer looked down The barrel
of the pistol and slowly pulled the lever.
The train ran rapidly down to the spot
| Indicated and the engineer ran the train
Just where the men with pistols wanted
it.
Then there appeared third robber,
disguised like the other two. These
three made the engineer and fireman
come with them to the express car, and
the engineer had to call the e1pressman,
j. w. Dunning, to open the door of the
car. The wooden door was already open,
but the iron barred door was closed and
locked.
Dunuing was seated with his back TO
the door, and when he turned round he
looked down the muzzle of three revcl.
yers. The command was given aud
Dunning opened the barred door, and in
the chief robber jumped. The other
two remained outside to guard the engi.
neer and fireman.
The leader made the messenger dump
the contents of the safe into q canvas
sack, but noticing that he was not closely
watched, Dunning showed some of the
money aside, so that about $1,000 was
hidden, the robbers getting S2.700. All
this money belonged to the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad company. Alongside the
express Car door was pile OF seventy
thousand dollars government money, en-
route to Florida, which the robbers failed
to notice.
Then the robbers made tie express
man get out of the car and go with them
to the mail car. w. G. Bell, the mail
agent, had suspected that q robbery was
| going on, and tried to get into the baggage
car with number of registered packages
| of mail. Just as he stepped to the end
door of the car he saw through the glass
that the robbers had intercepted him.
The robber leader, supposed to be Bunch,
faced him, pistol in hand, and finding
Bells arms full Of packages, said dump
those here on my left arm" There we're
twenty, four packages in all, and Bell
dumped them as requested. The robber
made Bell hand him the registered pouch,
and ordered the agent to open it; but
Bell had no key, so the robber carried the
pouch off with him. The pouch was
| made up at Meridian, aud its contents
and their value are unknown.
Just then Billy Scholes, the conductor,
who had been trying to find out the trou
BILE, and had armed himself with Win.
chester: cams out of the rear of the train,
having his lantern, and shouted. whats
the matter 2" The robbers fred two
shots at him, crying out, "Come up here
and you'll see what's the matter"
The engineer told the robber to let up
on shooting, as the train hands would
open fire and be shooting their own
men,.
There was no more shooting, and the
train was ordered to pull out at once,
which it did, the robbers disappearing in
the underground on the West side of the
track. The train pulled down to Citro
nellie and swapped time with the accom-.
mediation train engine, and one car was
sent back to the scene of the robbery
with detectives and an armed posse.
The leader Of the robbers is man six
feet high, Of about ITO pounds weight,
dressed in common clothes and slouch
hat. His assistants wore common clothes
and had nothing to distinguish them.
When the handkerchief slipped down a
little off the leaders face, the express
messenger says be saw he had blsck
moustache, and thinks be had beard.
THE SAME GAME PLAYED IN TEXAS.
CHICAGO, September 25.-A dispatch
from Fort Worth, Texas, says: At a late
hour last night, as the Northbound Santa
Fe train was pulling out of Crowley, ten
miles south of this city, three men board.
ed the train and two others jumped on
the locomotive. The two on the engine
placed pistols to the heads of the engineer
and fireman and told them to stop. The
robbers cut the engine, baggage, mail and
express cars from the rest of the train and
made the engineer pull half a mile
further. One of the men then got into
the express car and ordered the messen.
ger to show them the money. He point.
ed to three bags of Mexican silver. One
of the men ripped open the sack and
shoyeled the silver out the door, while
the other one threw cut the other sacks.
They took two packages said to contain
S. 900 each, but overlooked three or four
packages for Fort Worth. The engineer
was then made to couple up and move.
The train reached here at midnight, and
posse of twenty men started in pursuit
at once.
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