The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-01
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The Mobile and Ohio south-bosnnd mail
and passenger train was held up at S:lo
this morning by train robbers At Bucka-
north OF Mobile, says a Mobile.
Ala, dispatch to the Louisville
Cowviey-Jour7sai. The train was due
here AZ q q. ma. Just before the train left
Buckatunna two men mounthd behind
the tender and, climbing over. covered
En9ineer Jack Torrell and Fireman
Thomas Hust with their revolvers. The
robbers were disguised with red
handkerchief over the lower part OF their
faces. The leader ordered the engineer
10 null out and stop at the bridge twenty
flvc miles below Buckatunna and place
the train 20 that the express and
mail car should he ON the further
side of the bridge from the rest of
the train, h bridge being a tr.,stie over a
deep creek. "You obey Instructions or it's
down the barrel Of the pistol and slowly
DOWN to the spot indicated and the engi-
neer put the train just where the man with
the pistol wanted Il. Then there appeared
two. The three made the engineer and
fireman come with them To the express
car. and the enSineesr nHd TO- - coll ais 1as tho TO
the door Of the car. TIE wooden door
was already open. but the IRON
hRErn0 nOOF WAS CIO8eu anu IoCAeIs
Dunninw was seated with his hack tn the
door: and when he turned around the
looked down the muzxles of three revolv-
ming opened the barred door, and i'm the
chief robber jumped, the other two re-
manning outside to guard the engineer
senaer dump IN contents of the safe into
a canva sack. bait noticing that he was
not closely watched, Dunning showed
thousand dollars was hidden, the robber.
getting 2,7OO. All this money belonged
10 the Mobile & Ohio Railroad company.
AlonRside the express chr door WINS a pile
Of 1000 government money en- route 20
Florida, which the robbers failed TO no
Then the robbers madet the express man
get out of the car and TO TO the mail car:
w. &. Bell, the mail agent, had suspected
s sss in rSes sss ~es se.ns o Win ann q nu srisa o. Si
registered packages. of mail. just as he
stepped to the end door of the car he saw
sersgss I Eiinn. Tn TSe the nsb seef issae s:a sup ap:
hand, and andins Bells arms full Of
left arm." There were "A packages in all,
robber made Bell hand him q reGis.ered
the pouch on with him. The pouch was
made up at Meridian, and the contents
just then Billy Scoles, the conductor,
who had been trying to find out the
tsE%sis: ana ca mae o as"a Of IN, hs" rear VI Si' the
swhat's the matter ?' The robbers fired
here. and you'll see what's the MATTER
The engineer told the robber to let up OH
shootinR, as the train hands would open
There was no more shooting, and the
train was ordered to pull out at once
which il did. the IN disappearing In
a. ..~l.--N~~,AtN m, Tim v-nax Ssxu<a - fhx
The train pulled down to Chronicle, ant
snapped time with the accommodates
train and the accommodation train engine
and car was sent back to the scene Of ths
robbery with detectives and an armed
The leader of the robbers is a man
feet high. of about 40 pounds weight
dressed in common clothing and a sloIcf
inc and nothing to distinguish them
When the handkerchief slipped down Z
little of the leaders face. the expires.
messenger says he saw that he had a blacl
mustachc M thinks he had a beard.
The leader of the train robbers who helt
up the Mobile & Ohio train at Buoka Tun
Rube B,rrows.a noted desperate, the maj
whom a search for created 80 much cx
element in the northern part of the stat
iieved that he was organizing a gam
sS. Mobile asiS y Ohio io": ssain' an sni
hands with Winchester rifles. This wa
made public. and was doubtless what tn
robber referred to this morning. when b
said, during the progress OF robbing tn
to hold mp "a train, and I wanted To sho,
them 1 could do it," The suspected pas
for several days. Three men were see
this morning about 8 o'clock making thei
way east ON foot. They were armed an
were avoiding the houses by going aroun
them. They are believed to he the trai
robbers. A posse was in pursuit up I
last accounts, and confident of overtal
ing the men. The Mobile 4 Ohio ron
offers $1,000 reward for the arrest an
conviction OF the robbers.
She ls1Ode.