Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-11-18
DYNAMITE USED.
a Small Asacunt OF Money Taken FROM
the safe>-A Dynamite Bomb iced
to Wreck the Express Car.

MnwAUKEE, Wis. Nov. 13-An cx-
press train on the Chicago, Milwaukee
| & St Paul route. for Milwaukee and
| the northwest, was held up by train
robbers about n mile this side of West
ern Union Junction, and the express
car was dynnmited and robbed
The robbery occurred about l o'clock
Thursday morning. Wednesday even
ing five or six men left Racine on n
freight train which they left Mt Western
Union Junction. remaining there until
the express train from Chicago came In
sight
They boarded the train. and unknown
TO anyone made their way to the tender
and lay in wait for the favorable mo-
ment. II soon came About n mile
north of the station the fireman began
shoveling coal into the fire-box, when
he was startled by noise, and. on
turning about to ascertain the cause of
the trouble, was covered by n rifle in
the hands of n masked man.
Another barrel was pointed At the
head of the engineer. The lights were
then extinguished. The conductor and
engineer were marched ahead of the
robbers. who followed in single file to
the express ear. One of the robbers
raped on the door ut the side and or
dered Messenger Murray to open it.
This the latter refused to do.
Then n bomb was thrown through
the window. and the demand was re-
newed. Still the plucly messenger re.
fused to open the door. A terrible ex-
piosion followed, the force of which can
be imagined when IL is known that the
heavy timber running along the side OF
the car as the foundation upon which
1t Is built was completely torn in two.
large hole was made in the door
and before the echoes of the explosion
had died away and amid the smoke and
dust one of the robbers sprang into the
aperture and covered the messenger
and his assistant with revolvers Both
men had been thrown down by the ter.
rible concussion. Even then it was
some time before Murphy would con-
sent to surrender the keys to the
safes. The explosion had thrown the
inside of the car into the greatest con.
fusion.
Two safes in the car were thrown
out OF the car and dragged off short
distance, when, with delay of about
half an hour. the train was permitted
To proceed on its way, arriving in this
city Thursday porning at aga
Prompt action was taken, and rs fast
as special trains could be made readv
detectives were sent TO the scene of tho
robbery. There are to-day 90 detec-
tives working on the case. belonging to
the city forces and the companies'
specials.
The express car on reaching Milwau-
kee was unloaded and taken to the
shops for repairs. Among the goods
taken out a bale of cloalxs was fairly
blown into ribbons, having the appear
ance OF being put through threshing
machine number of hats, known
among ladies rs shapes" were torn
and riddled into a shapeless mass
Messenger Murphy's clothing was
stripped into threads and il is a mira
Gle how he escaped with his life. Tho
report that he had been shot ut bv the
robbers is probably without fouuda.
ton.
Mr.. Dodsworth, the agent will not
give out the amount of money secured
by the robbers. but says its is verv
small. This he has ascertained bv
checking up the messengers report 1t
is learned from railroad men that tho
safes of the Adams Express Co. were in
the baggage car enroute for Milwaukee.
where they are turned over to the COM
pany's messengers
The Fire and Marine Insurance bank
had n sealed safe on the train. which
came through all right and was deliv-
cred Thursday morning About 1. 900
money packages are received f.om rail-
road station agents here daily. and there
were some of these on the train that
was robbed, but they were not in the
express car and were there fore not mo-
Tested