The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-05
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS.
Two Masked Highwaymen "HoId
Up" a SIeeper's Occupants
A CONDUCTORS PLUCKY ACT
Prevents The Messengers ofthe Entire
Train Eram Being Robbed, Near
Kansas CIly-A shcrln's Posse
Chasing the Robbers.

kANSAs klIfi Mu'i aukunb u AAvsA
IN your lands!" Such was the COM
mond thai, astonished the passengers on
,bo S. Paul sleeper attached to the rear
of the Wabash Western Express as 1t
nnIled ont OF Harlem at $3.50 o'clock
I,sl evening, The command was spoken
hv one Of the tao men whose faces were
concealed behind hapdkerChlefs, who
Ind entered the rear Of the coach, The
passengers turned to ascertain the cause
nr tbe command and looked into the
threatening muzsles ot two revolvers,
There were seven persons in the coach,
Oye passengers, the sleeping car conduc'
tor and the porter. One man went
through the passegers one by one while
the other, with his revolver, kept a
watch, IN this way the plunderers Sc
cured all the booty, amounting to $l72
tasl aud two gold watches,
The Wabaall western train left Kan
,os Civ at $50 o'clock last night, When
ihe train reached the Missouri river
Sri,lce two men were seen to get OFF the
iorwari end OF the baggage car and dis.
"nnear behind the lumber pile. The
tIain hands thought they were tramps,
whn lad sloIena ride from Kansas City.
,Thcv ARE convinced now that they were
ths robbers aud that they caught the
year eni of the last sleeper as 1t passed
the lumber pile, Just as the train pull:
AL mi Of Harlem, tho robbers entered
the Ear and went through the paSsen'
ger, AZ described. ! was evidently their
Intention to rob the passengers In oil
tho coaches, "wOrking" the train from
the rear,
pLucxY CONDUCTOR.
Leaving the St. Pau! coach they start
el for tho next one phcad, On the plat
form tl,cymet the hCcondnr,or Of the train,
John Roach. One oi the robbers pusll-
eI his revolver under The conductors
nose. and with an oath ordered him to
hold up his hands The conductor sup
posing from the nuture Of their disguise
that n number OF II railroad men who
GaI taken passage on the train were
piayiug practical joke on him, with q
laugh ho attempted to push past them
md enter the sleeper. Just then gust
Of wind swept usidG the masks oil the
robbers, aud then he kHeY that the affair
was one of dead earnest. 10 had no
weapon, hut he carried Ills lantern lg bis
hand and with that he dealt one Of the
men a vicious blow on the head, smash
ing the lanterns glass, aud extlnguish'
ing the ivht. simultaneously with his
assault, tie other rObber fired a shot at
linn from his revolver. The aim was
bad, and the bullet missed It's mark.
The lirsl robber had by this time re-
covered himself, and he too took shot
at the conductor. Ills aim wasno more
precise than his partners, The robbers
then with one more parting shot swung
of from the steps Of the car. Tie tram
was then running ut the rate Of 25 miles
an hour.
In tho meantime tho passengers In
tile St. Paul coach had been so com.
pletely lerrorized that they did not re.
pain their senses until they heard the
Iring on the platform. Then one Of
them cut the cord that connects with the
mir brake and the train came TO a stand.
still. BY this time the train had run q
mile beyond the place where the rob-
bers had escaped. w. II, Bonnell, spe-
cial agent OF tho road, was passenger
in the smoking ear. When the train
came to asudden stop he ru9bed out to
ascertain the cause,
CHASING TIIR ROBBERS.
Learning from the conductor the oc.
vuuCnce of the robbery, he Immediately
set 10 work to begin the chase for the
robbers. lie ordered the engineer to
run the train to Randolph, a few miles
ahead, and there he uncoupled the en-
gine and un IL back TO Harlem. There
he found Deputy Sheriff Tomlnson.
Guards were stationed ut the approaches
Of tile bridge to prevent the robbers en-.
trance into Kansas City, and two posses
were organized to scour the country for
the fuGitives. Special Agent Bonnell
then walked bnCk to Kansas City, arriv.
ing here Ut $50 o'clock this morning,
and reported the case to the police, who
art keeping lookout in the city for the
road agents The police Of the neigh.
boring towns have also been asked to
arrest any one answering the description
Of the robbers. The robbers are do.
scribed as rather youthful, not over 2Ol
81 23 years OF age, OF slight build and
dressed something like farmers boys.
Sherit! 1Omlinson'a posse returned
this morD'aK after an almost irultless
search for the '0bbe&s. They succeeded
in tracing the ma 70 A farm house on
the dirt road, where II is known they
stole horse from a tarGeF Hamed
Evans. ltssupposed 1t they forced the
horse to carry double. The tracks ot the
ahilnal at least were traced 10 lend 10
the tiyer where the footprints In .he
SAND show that two men probably dis
mounted, tthiS point ali traces otthe
bandits was lost. 1t Is very likely they
crossed the river aud boarded train for
ii&ayenwOrth on the Kansas City 4
northwestern road, and by that meAns
10 leavGnwOrth, and thence 10 some
point in Nebraska.