The historic times., 1891-11-14
TRAIN ROBBERY.
Another Bold Hold Up Of an Ex-
press Train.
EVIDENTLY The SANE GANG
They Crawl over the Tender and Use Dy'
Mantle on the Express Car = The
Amount of Booty Taken Said
to Be Large.

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 13.-The midnight
train from Chicago on the Milwaukee
e ST. Paul road was robbed By masked
men near Western Union Junction at
o'clock yesterday morning. The train
had been out of the junction, twenty
miles south Of this place, about half a
mile when the fireman, Edward Averill,
who was putting some coal into
the furnace, heard noise behind
him. He turned around and discov-
cred two heavily masked men clam ber-
ing over the engine tender. They
leTeled their double-barreled muskets
at the fireman and the engineer, bill"
Mckay, with the injunction: Don't
move an inch till we tell you to, or we
will blow the tops Of your heads OFF,
Engineer Mckay was directed to run
the train to within point about one
mile from Western Union Junction.
Here the engineer was commanded to
stoD Both men were ordered to step
out Of the cab and get in line ahead OF
the robbers
They were marched to the express
car unQ6r cover anu buC lODOGLo IlANh
demanded Of the express messenger
that he open the door Of the car, which
he refused to do The conductor came
up bv this time and he was taken
prisoner The robbers next broke IN
4 window Of the car and threw in some
kind of an explosive which forced out
the end Of the car. They then went in
side and covered the express messen-
ger with revolver and tried to make
him open the safes. This he positively
refused to do and the safes were thrown
out of the car.
''Lcss than five minutes out of West
ern Union Junction." said Messenger
Murphy, ''the train slowed up sudden
lY. A musket was pointed through a
TOP window of the car and second
later terrific explosion occurred that
knocked both myself and Mr.. Cook in a
heap. Half dozen more explosions
followed and both doors flew off the
bolts. Then two men wearing big
black masks climbed quickly into the
car and covered US with double
barreled muskets. We were cautioned
to maintain silence at the
penalty of getting our heads 'blowed
Off After glancing hurriedly about
the car the robbers fastened their eyes
on the two iron boxes of the America
Express Go. The robbers brought the
fireman in a little later and went
through all the boxes out on the road
bed. One of the robbers kept us Gov
cred with his musket all the time,
while the other robber superintendeC
operations of the fireman"
In the meantime the rear brakeman,
understanding the situation, rushe.
back to the junction and got help anC
an engine The engine and posse a.
once went to the scene and the robbers
fed. The train went on to milwaukee,
and the fast mail train which leaves
Chicago at a. NJ. picked up the safes
and carried them to Milwaukee. The
police of Milwaukee and the secret
service of the system together with the
sheriff of Racine county were sent ir
pursuit of the robbers Their f1ight
precautions they had evidently in
tended, 50 that the officials believe they
will get them before noon to-day.
Some of the passengers who were
asleep did not know anything about
the ''hold-up" until the train arrived il
Milwaukee. Some of the passengers
thought there were twenty or thirty o.
the robbers; others thought they saw
only dozen, while others said there
were more robbers than passengers
When the train started up agar
the passengers saw the safes lying
beside the track, but the robbers haC
disappeared. When the train arrived
at the Union depot at 2:20 o'clock tn,
express car presented an appearance,
that it had been attacked by heavy ar
tillery. Every door and window haC
been blown out and the platform anC
walls were shattered in half dozer
places, while the contents were piiet
in one indiscriminate heap in the cen
ter of the car.
Messenger Murphy states that he ha,
secured all the bills of the money con
tanned in the safe and that the sum wa
undoubtedly very large one. 1t
probable that the total amount of tn
robbers booty will amount to Sl00, O0C
and possibly more.
An OHlclal OF the St- Faul ROAD sal
the train which was held up was tn
one that generally carried all the none
received by Milwaukee banks from tn
east in the morning.
Agent John #. Bell, of the America
Express Co., said to a reporter, afte
Messenger Murphy had made his repor
that an approximate statement of tn
amount taken by the robbers could nc
be learned. He said that S., 900 in locs
packages was certainly gone, besides
sum contained in two sealed envelope,
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