New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-20
SECURED BIG BOOTY
Train Robbers Loot an Ex-
press Car on the Nilsson
ri Pacific Railway.
The Amount of the Booty Sc.
cured Sur1nised to be
100000,

KANSAS CITY Aug. 1.-THE Kansas City
limited express from st. Louis on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway fell into the hands of
bandits early this morning. The train was
crowded with passengers and the safe of the
express company was stuffed with money,
much Of it consigned to Western banks.
The train left Upton, Mo-, at about 3 a. m.
Two mysterious figures were seen by the en-
gineer lurking around the forward end of
the train, but no particular attention was
paid to them. Just after leaving Upton
the fireman turned toward the tender to fire
up the engine and looked squarely into the
muZzles OF two revolvers in the hands of
two masked men, who were lying on their
faces on the top of the coal. They were
doubtless the two mysterio us men who were
noticed at Upton. They had evidently
boarded the forward end of the "blind"
mail car at that place, and were crawling
over the tender toward the engine.
One of the bandits covered the fireman
with his revolver, while the other took care
of the engineer. They were told to hold UP
their hands. Their hands wentup. ''Now,
you run this train to Otterville water tank, +"
attempt to stop at any other place or give a
signal Of alarm you'll be dead men," and
the robbers placed their weapons close to
the heads of their victims. The engineer
and firem en- were
AT THE BANDITS MERCY, -
end could only obey The Otterville water
tank stands in :'Robbers' cut" just east of
Otterville. It was there that the noted out
laws, the James boys, committed one OF
their most daring robberies and the Young
er brothers perpetrated one of their boldest
crimes.
"Robbers CUT is at the bottom of a
steep grade and when the train approached
it the engineer had great difficulty in at
, tempting to bring the engine to a stand
still. His attempts were redoubled when
the leader Of the two robbers pressed the
muzzle OF his revolver against the engineer
temple, and just as the historic spot was
reached the train stopped. ~
"You come with me- the leader adj
dressed Frank DrOyer the engineer, land
you tend to the fireman" he said to his
companion. The engineer was commanded
to go to the express car and tell the messen-
ger to open the door. He did so, under the
threat Of death if he should fail. When he
reached the express car he found the two
robbers had five confederates stationed at
convenient places about the car, all heavily
armed and their faces concealed behind
masks. He walked to the door Of the ex-
press car and "covered' by the revolvers
of three of the robbers, called to the ex-
press messenger, Sam Avery, to open the
door. Avery,
sUsPECTING NO DANGER,
pushed back the door. AS he did so, the
leader of the robbers and one confederate
pushed their revolvers in and ordered the
messenger to hold up his hands. The or.
der was promptly obeyed and three of the
robbers jumped into the car. They pro-
ceeded Immediately to the safe, which was
locked. Avery was commanded to open it.
and at the point of a revolver did So One
of the robbers unfolded a gunnysack an6
into it were placed the entire contents o.
the safe. The robbers then made cursory
examination of the car to see if they haC
overlooked anything, and finding nothing
more of value backed out of the car, theil
revolvers always pointed at the messenger
In the meantime the conductor. alarmed
at the unusual stopping of the train, went
forward to see what was the trouble. He
got onlv as far as the rear end of the ex
press car when he was halted by one of the
robbers, who told him to go back and col
lect tickets. We'll take care of this enc
OF the train," the robber added. The con
ductOr hurried back to the first passenger
coach and excitedly informed the passen
gers of what was going on, and advised
them to hide their valuables. Money, jew
elry, watches and everything valuable wa:
showed into bootlegs, into the cracks of the
cushioned seats and anywhere to get it ou
of sight. The conductor had just warned
the passengers in the second car when the
train started on its journey again. The rob
bers
HAD FINISHED THEIR WORK
and escaped. The engineer pulled the trair
into Otterville, a half mile distant, where s
part Of the crew were left to arose the
sheriff and organize posse to pursue ths
robbers. $751;. ~.