Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

mile, and marched them back and forth
for ten minutes, then sent them back to
the engine. The crew mounted their en-
gine and after a delay of half an hour
went to Milwaukee. The robbers were
SO frightened at the delay that they made
no attempt to open the safes they hal
thrown out. Their dynamite bombs
wrecked the car, tearing away heavy iron
plates and tossing them fifty feet away.
After the robbery the piunderers disap.
peared, while thu country in that vicin-
ity was secured for them by detectives
of the railroad and of the city police OF
Milwaukee.
Concerning the manner in which the
robbers did their work, Engineer
Mackey said: ave had got about a
quarter of a mile north of the Western
Union ,1mMation. The fireman was put
ting in coal. Suddenly he heard a
noise and looked up. | saw there was
something wrong from the expression OF
his face. / looked ciose by to see what
it was and I saw a masked man with a
double ba relied gun in ono hand and q
revolver in the other. They were
leveled at the fireman. Quicker than |
could think another masked man APP
peared and pointed gun and o revolver
at me.
"Fireman Averll got his speech first
and called out: what do you want?'
sThrow up your hands, said the rob
Der. Up went Averili's hands
at asked what they wanted. None OF
YOUR business. Well let you know soon
enough replied the man who held that
big gun and revolver pointed at me.
"The other robber handed the fireman
a. cigar and said: Light it and be quick
aboutit, or I'll blow your head off.
sThe fireman lit it at the water glass
lamp and began comfortably pultlnS
away at 1T when the robber said: Give
1t to me- 1t was quickly handed to
him
"The man who held the gun at my
head said: stop her, and be quick about
it, too I stopped her. He said: You
two get off the engine We did so.
They followed us They said go up to
the express car. Wedid So They said:
Get that car open 1 raped on the
side door. There are no end doors 10 &,
those cars They are what tramps call
blind baggage cars.
"Well, l raped, but there was no
answer from the inside. one OF inc
robbers left us and craWled through
under the car to the other side; the other
covered both myself and the fireman
with his shot gun and revolver. Soon
we heard terrific explosion That was
a bomb which he had taken from ms
nocket and placed on the ledge OF inc
Side door of the express car.
.He soon crawled back under the car
TO us. He pulled from his pocket = ,
hottie about eight inches long, winch ! !
could see as he stood close 70 me ,l n.u
two fuses in 1t. He lit the fuses from
tho the cigar which he was then smoklns
e onJ witch he had compelled the fireman
TO lighs He laid this bottle on INC INC d i1uso
W W tho M door and motioned US to get down DO,
tho embankment. We ran down. -, Ln 1es
' W." 10 covered all the time with tne
a aups It did not go off. He threw ~ WV, W
e ava It was picked up ana IS nov
Iald by the detectives from Mliwa aa,.oe
ne .io drew another from his pock ah
,iohted it from his cigar. The otne, fG Gio
her sajd Throw it into the car car. ,ud liz
hold it until it burned down pre'vy, N %d, a.
i as 7 - stood close to him ] tremoleu d
AS tl;oa s os I'd sooner face the revolVe u
tban the the bomb. Then he t as daor ~
t tn. tho glass above the so eooo oo1s'
, u didn't explode for twenty . seoUs all
II Then u,u the exp os.on threw the glass "''