The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-11-12
BRAKEMAN.
The Robbers Narrowly Escape Capture
at the hand of a Posse.
BANKERS ASSOCIATION MEET.
Tho silver Question Has the Floor
Portland Don't Like the Action
of its Council.

MILwAUKER, Nov, 12.-The midnight
train from Chicago'on the Milwaukee &
st. Paul road was robbed by masked
men near the western Union Junction,
at o. o'clocksshis morning. Two masked
men with double barreled shotguns
clambered on the engine about one
mile from the Western Union Junction
and commanded the engineer to stop
the train. The engineer and fireman
were then ordered to step out of the cab
and to march to the express car under
cover and the work of blowing open the
express car with dynamite bombs was
began, which is thus described by
Express Messenger Murphy i1The train
slowed up suddenly and 'muskets were
poked through the top window of the
car and a second later q terrific explo-
sion occurred that knocked both myself
and Mr.. Cook into heap, half a dozen
more explosions followed and both doors
flew off the bolts. Then two men wear
ing big black masks clambered quickly
into the car and covered us with musk
cts. We were cautioned to maintain
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heads blown off. After glancing hur-
riedly about the car, the robbers fas-
tened theireyes on the two iron boxes
of the American Express cen,pany's-
The rebbers brought the fireman in q
| little later and went through all the
boxes They compelled us to hand over
our keys. They dumped the boxes out
on the road bed. One of the robbers
kept us covered with his mnsket all the
| time while the other superintended
the operations. He secured all the bills
of money contained in the safe. It is
| very probable that the total amount of
the robbers booty will amount to $780,
600 and possibly more
Agent John F. Bell, of the American
Express company, said to reporter
that the approximate statement of the
amount taken by the robbers could not
be learned. He said: s'$50O0 in local
packages is certainly gone, besides a
SUM contained in two sealed envelopes.
Some of the passengers who were sound
asleep did not know anything about the
hold-up until the train arrived at Mil
waukee. Some of the passengers
thought there were twenty or thirty
robbers. others thought they saw only
dozen, .while some said there were more
robbers than passengers. When the
train started mp again the passengers
saw the safes lying beside the track but
the robbers had disappeared. When
the train arrived at the Union depot at
2:20 o'clock the express presented
sight that would indicate that it had
been attacked by heavy artillery.
Every door. and window was blown off
and the platform and walls shattered in
half dozen places, while the contents
of the car were piled indiscriminately in
a heap in the center of it.
dispatch just received here states
that the robbers did not get away with
the booty. The robbers after gaining
admission to the express car COM
manded the messenger to open the safes. !
He refused, and the safes were pitched
out OF the ear onto the ground In the
meantime the rear brakeman under |
standing the situation rushed back to
the junction and got an engine and
posse at once and went to the scene, and
the robbers fed The robbers had tried I
to force open the doors of the safe but |
were unsuccessful.