Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26
OBEY OR DIE.
A Mobile and Ohio Train Held Up
and Robbed in Mississippi.
The Work Was Done After the Texas
Style and Bunch is Supposed to
Have BOssed the Job.
Twenty-gour Registered Packages and $1,000
Cash Secured but $4,000 is over
Looked by the Robbers

MOBILE, ala. Sept. 25.-The Mobile
and Ohio southbound mail and passenger
tram was held up at $40 this morning by
train robbers at Buckatunna (Miss.)
station, seventy miles north of Mobile.
The tram was due here at 8 q. m. Just
before the tram left Buckatunna two
men mounted the tender of the engine,
and climbing over, covered the engineer,
Jack ThorrelI, and Fireman Thomas
Hust, with their revolveTs. The robbers
were disguised with red bandana hand
kerchiefs over the lower part of
their faces. The leader ordered
the engineer TO pull ont and stop
five miles below Buckatunna so that
the express and mail car should
be on the further side of the bridge from
the rest of the train, the bridge being
.trestIe over deep creek.
''You obey instructions or ii death,
he said
The engineer looked down the barrel
of the pistol and slowly pulled the lever.
The train ran rapidly to the spot indicat-
ed and the engineer put the train Just
where the man with the pistol wanted It.
Then there appeared third rObber dis
guised like the other two. These three
made the engineer and fireman come
with them to the express car, and the
engineer had to call out to the express
man, J. w. Dunning, to open the door
of the car. The wooden door
was already opened but the
iron-barred door was closed ana locked.
Dunuing was seated with his back to his
door. and when ne turned around he
looked down the muzZles of three re-
yoIvers The command was given and
Dunuing opened the barred door, and IL
the chief roDber jumped, the other two
remaining outside to guard the engineer
and fireman The leader made the
messenger dump the contents OF the saIe
into u canvass sack, but noticing that he
was not closely watched Dunning showed
some of the money aside, so that about
one thousand dollars was hidden, the
robbers getting S2700. All this money
belonged to the Mobile and Ono railroad
company Along side the express car
door was pile of SO 600, goTernmeut
| money, enroute to Florida, which the
robbers failed to notice. Then the ROBBERS
made the expressman get out OF the car
| and go with them to the mail ear. ""
| c. Bell, the mail agent, had suspected
that robbery was going on and tried to
! of registered packages Of mail. Just as
| he steDped 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 were 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
! I'D at Meridian, and the contents
| and value are unknown, Just then
| Bnly SchOIes, the conductor, who had
been trying to find out the trouble,
! and had armed himself with Win
| chester, came out of the rear of the
| train, waved his lantern and shouted;
''What's the matter?
The robbers fred two shots at him 4,
crying out:
''Come here and you II see what's the
| matter.
The engineer told the robbers to let up
on shooting, and the train was ordered
| to null out at once, which it did, the
| robbers disappearing in the underground
on the west side of the track. The train
| pulled down to Chronicle and snapped
time with the accommodation train, and
the accommodation train engine was sent
| back to the scene Of the robbery
| with detectives and an armed posse
The leader robber is a man SIX feet
high, about one hundred and seventy
pounds weight, dressed in common
| clothing and a SLOUGH hat. His assist
ants wore common clothing, and nothing
10 distinguish them. When the hand
kerchief slipped down little of the
leaders, face, the express messenger says
he had black n4ustaohe and thinks he had
a beard.