Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
" HANDS UP 7"
And Up They Went in a Pullman
Just Out of Kansas City.
The Coach Nets S175 and Two Gold
NatcheS-TwO Shots Fired at
the Conductor.
Everything Except the Firing in Jesse James
Style-A4Eady Passenger Faints-COn-
duetor Has the Last Tag.
REcREAr1oN ZOE FARMERS, LADS.

RECREATION FOR FARMERS LADS.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. Hold
up your hands. Such was the COM
mand that astouished the passengers in
the st. Paul sleeper latta ched to the
rear of the Wabash WEstern EXPRESS as
it pulled out of Harlesh at $50 ftlock
last evening. The command was spoken
by one of two men, whose faces were
concealed behind handkerehiefs, who
had entered the rear of the. coach. The
passengers turned to ascertain the source
of the command and looked into the
threatening muZZles of two reyOlvers.
The hands went up. The cautIonarY
words that followed were. not necessary
1.-THE first enc that offers resistance VIII
be shot down by our man on the plat
form - There was no man on the plat
form but the passengers submitted as
| quietly as if there had been a legion.
There were seven people in the coach,
five passengers, the sleeping car COnduc-
tor and the porter. OF the passengers
one was a lady. AT the first command
her face bIanched with fear. Her hands
went up for moment, then hfelessly
into her lap.
SHE HAD PAINTED.
''I guess they won't bother us, - re-
marked one of the robbers, and satisfied
thar no resistance would be offered they
commenced their work of plumber. One
man event through the passengers
one by one, while the other with his
revolver in his extended arm kept watch
full lookout for signs OF opposition. In
this way the plunderer secured all the
booty he could in his haste, and when it
was all over and the robbers had escaped
the passengers found they had been re-
lieved of S175 in cash and two gold
watches. The Wabash Western train left
Kansas City at $500 o CLOCK last night.
1t was composed of baggage, express and
smoking cars, one day coach, two Mann
boudoir cars and one Pullman car the
latter car was the st. Paul sleeper where
the robbers commenced their work.
When the train reached the Missouri
river bridge two men were seen to get off
the forward end of the baggage car and
disappear behind a lumber pile. The
tram hands thought they were tramps
who had stolen
a RIDE FROM KANSAS CITY
and paid no attention to the incident.
They are convinced now that they were
the robbers and that they caught the rear
end of the last sleeper as it passed the
lumber pile. Just as the train pulled out
of Harlem the robbers entered the car
and went through the passengers as
described. 1t was evidently their inten-
ton to rob the passengers IN all the
coaches, working the train from the
rear. As they left the st. Paul sleeper
they again cautioned its occupants not to
give the alarm under penalty of being
shot by ''the man on the platform. -
IL. - tod
for the next one ahead. On the plat
form they met the conductor of the
train, John Roach. One of the robbers
pushed his revolver under the cOuduc-
tors nose, and with an oath ordered him
to hold up his hands. The conductor
supposed from the nature of their dis
guises that number of railroad men who
had taken passage on the train were
playing a practical joke on him, and
with laugh he attempted to pass them
and enter the sleeper.
Just then a gust of wind swept aside
the masks of the robbers and then he
knew that the affair was
ONE OF DEAD EARNEST.
He had no weapon, but he carried his
lantern in his band and with that he
dealt one of the men 81 vicious blow on
the head, smashing the lantern s glass
and extinguishing the light. Simultane-
ously with his assault the other robbeT
fired a shot at him from his revolver.
The aim was bad and the bullet missed
its mark The first robber had by this
time recovered himself and he, too, took
a shot at the conductor. His aim was no
more precise than,tPat of his partner s.
The robbers then, with one more parting
shot. swung off from the steps of the car.
AS they did so the conductor hurled his
lafttern after them, determined to have
the ''last tag on them. The train was
running at thesFate of twenty-five miles
an hour, too fast for any one, except
under desperate chances, to jump off
without endangering his life and Con-
ductor Roach did rot attempt it. He
swung out beside of the car, however,
W SAW THE saBBERs RISE
and make with all haste for the dirt road
that leads tst,Kansas City. That was the
last ,seenaf them. Intbe meantime the
pas&ngersA in the St. Paul coach had
, been 90 cOffpletely terrorized that they
didn u regain their senses till they heard
the firing on the platform. Then one of
them pulled the cord that connects with
thehair brake and the train caIIfes8o
standstill. By this time the. Eain had
run q, mile beyond the pfsce where the
p6tasers had escaped. VII BonpeIl,
special agent of the road, was d passen-
@eat IN the smoking car. When the train
came to a sudden halt he rushed out to
ascertain the cause. Learning from the
conductor the occurrence of the robbery,
he Immediately set to. work to begin
chase for the robbers. He2ordered the
engineer TO run the train TO Randolph, q
few miles ahead, and there he uncoupled
the engine and run it back 70 Harlem.
There he found Deputy Sheriff Topiuson.
Guards were stsTioned at thssapprOacRss
of the bridgeJto 'FSEevent the robbers en-
trance into Kansas City and two posses
were organized to scour the country for
the fngitives Special Agent Taplinson
then walked bask TO Kansas City Sarriv-
ing here at 2:30 @ clock this morning4and
reported the case to. the police who are
keeping a lookoutfn the city for the
road agents. Ting police of the neighbour
ing towns have also been asked to arrest
anyone answering