The Red Cloud chief., 1889-08-09
TRAIN ROBBERS.
Masked Men Hold Up the Fort
Worth q Denver Mail
they Are Folled In Obtaining Much Booty
Two Bold Men Rob . Train
Near Kansas
City.

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Two Bold Mon Rob . Train
Near Kansas
City.
FORT WORTH. Tex, Aug. Sat two
O'Clock Yesterday morning six masked
men stopped the Fort Worth & DenvsE
mail and express soushbound, between
Cheyenne water. tank and TascOss and
three men got on the locomotive and COM
pelled the engineer to pull away from the
passenger coaches which been de-
tached by the robbers and left under
guard Of the other three.
After going half o mile her robbers com.
PEELED the engineer to get Oh the locomo-
tive and bring q pick to force open the
door Of the express car.
Express Messenger Marsh, seeing what
was up closed the doors Of his . and
pi cd up trunks against them and then
put out the lights in the car after he had
secreted all b express packages but
three
Tho robbers coming to the car ordered
Marsh to Omen it and fred into it. The
engineer hammered away with his pick
until he got the door partly opened, when
. torch was pushed into the opening and
. revolver poked in and pointed at Marsh,
who was told to open up or be killed.
Marsh opened and three PACKAGE were
stolen. but the Pacific Express Company
people say that very little money was o.
cured.
The robbers then won't to the mail car
and compelled Route Agent Wolcott to
open hi car. He had hidden ali his regis.
tered matter. but one letter, under . sack
and turned his lights out. Tho robbers
got the one package and b opened mail
pouches and scattered the contents over
the floor. All the robbers were masked.
After doing the work they ordered the en-
gineer to put out the torch and pull out
when they left
The authorities in the several neighbor.
ing counties were notified and are in pur.
suit. 1t is said that the total amount
stolen is less than 5000. The robbers fired
twenty or twenty-five shots into the mail
and express cars. The passengers were
greatly frightened, but nOt ono of them
was molested in any way, though money
and j~welry were hid in short order.
Cheyenne is S.5 miles northwest from
| Fort Worth.
TRAIN ROBBERS NEA KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS City, No., Aug. 1.-Two men
who wore red and white hnndkerch:efs
over their faces as ma. held up and
robbed passenger train No. 4 on the Wa
bash railway four miles east of Harlem at
S:35 O'Clock SATURDAY. night They Sc
cured $1I5 and two gold watches and
would have secured . great deal more but
they were frightened from the train by q
narVv NAnAnOf0r hofopo thnV crOoooAAA -
their operations The men were medium
sized and both wore dark clothing and
SLOUGH hats. They were between twenty.
two and twenty-five years Of z and
were oud and profane in their demands
for money.
w. H BOnnell, special agent Of the road.
sat in the smoking car OF b train and
was notified by Conductor James Reach
that the real coach had been gone through
by robbers. He at once cut the engine
he notified Deputy Sheriff Tom inson and
they began a search for the men but were
not successful in getting sight OF them.
The train pulled out from this citv at
$50 o'ciock and registered it's time at Har.
lem at S:35 O'Clock. Two men boarded the
rear coach at the Harlem bridge and as
soon Is H ,rlem was passed awoke passen-
gers with the demand. Throw up your
hands," 1t took them about ten minutes
to '~invoice" the nine passengers who
were in the coach.
They left the rear coach to raid tho next
n front and met Conductor Reach ON the
front platform.
Throw up your hands, {" they command.
ed. The conductor thought that they
were railway acQ~uainsancss and laughing
at them started 20 pass n. They COM
manded again. and taking in the situation
he struck one of them with his lantern.
The other robber shot twice at Reach and
both then jumped from tho train. Reach
threw his lantern. after them and about
this time n Of the passengers pulled the
beIl-cord and the train was stopped
Special Agent Bonnell detached the On
Rine from the train and started back t.
this city. In company with Deputy Sher-
III Tomlinson. of Clay County. he kept
watch at the Hannibal bridge and secured
the country about Harlem until three
O'Clock yesterday morning. when he Re.
ported the robbery to the Central polio.
station and left . description Of the two
men.
The train consisted Of . b gage car,
two through sleepers On the Iowa Con-
trail, coaches which are switched of1 q:
Moberly, and the car sleeper that wa
robbed.
When the men left the train they took
to q wagon road and disappeared in the
darkness. Nothing has since been heard Of
them
Starved To Death.
SPRING VALLEY. ILL.,, Aug. A.-The wife
Of one of the locked. out miners here was
ordered by The physician In attendance
ON her twins, who were slowly starving
to death. to eat . suficiency Of tho right
kind of food SO that she could nourish her
offspring, bu: being in the poorest cir
cumstances and living Of such charity as
was given by the relief committee here,