The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-11-19

his assistant up the tracks for a hS1f
mile. and marched them elk and forth
for ten minutes, then cent them back to
the engine The crew mounted their en-
CINE and after delay of half an huGr
went to Milwaukee Tie robbers were
so fri htcned at the delay that they made
m attempt to OF en- the safes they had
thrown out. Their dynamite bombs
wrecked the car, tearing away heavy iron
plates and tossing them fifty feet away
After the robbery the plundercrs disap-
pearcd, while the country in that virin-
ity was secured for them hy detectives
Of the railroad and of the city police Of
Milwaukee.
Concerning the manner in which the
robbers di their work. Engineer
Mackey said: awe had got about a
quarter of Il mile north of the Western
| nioa junction. The fireman was iut-
ting in coal. Suddenly he heard a
noise and /, oked up saw there was
something wrong from the expression of
his face. / looked clt Sc by to see what
it was and | saw masked man with a
double ba relied gun in one hand and a
revolver in the other. They were
lcveled at the fireman. Quicker than |
could think another masked man ap-
pcared and pointed gun and a revolver
at me.
"Fireman Avarill got his spceci, fr-t
and called ont: What do you want?'
Throw up your hands said the rob
Der. Up went Averillis hands
al asked what they wanted. None of
your business. Well let you know soon
enough. replied the man who held that
big gun and rcvo.ver pointed At me.
The other robber handed the fireman
a cigar and said: Light it and tr quick
about it, or III blow your head OIL.
"The fireman 1t it at the water gla s
lamp and began comfortably putting
away at it when the robhcr said: Give
it to me- 1t was quickly handed to
him.
The man who held the gun at my
head said: stop her, and fe equick about
il, too stopped her. He said: You
two get off the engine. We did so,
They followed Us They said go up 'o
the express car. We did 50 They sad:
Get that car open raped on the
side door There are no end doors to
those cars. They are w: at tramps call
blind baggag cars.
well, | raped, but there was no
answer from the inside. ore of the
robbers left lis and crawled. through
under the car to the other side; the other
covered both myself and tic fireman
with his shot gun aud reSelicr Soon
VIC heard a terrific explosion That was
bomb which he had taken from his
pocket and paced on the ledge OF the
side door of the express car.
"Iic soon crawied back under the car
TO us. He pulled from his pocket a
bottle about eight inches ,ong, which /
could sec as he stood close to me had
| two fuses in H. He lit tha fuses from
the cigar which he was then smoking
| and which he had compelled the fireman
to light He laid tbs bottle on the ledge
of the door and motioned us to get down
! the cmbankmcnt. We ran dow. They
kept rs covered al! the time with tho
guns 1t did not go off. He threw il
awar 1t was picked up and is nov
| held by the dctecti>e es from Milwaukee
| "iie drew another from his pocket
| lighted it from his cigar. The other rob
| Der said: Throw it into the car. lie
| held it until it burned down pretty well.
As | stood close to him | trcmbled q
triae, as IL sooner face the revolver
than the bomb. Then he tossed il
| through the glass above the side door
1t didn't explode for twenty seconds
| Then the exp os.on threw the glass al
over Us and threw out great plates o.
| iron from the car sides Tnen they or
| dered the fireman and me to go on tho
other side of the ear They held tbs
guns on us and we crawled under the
| ears.
The explosion of the bombs hat
scared the express messengers, and whe.
| the robbers knocked with their revo.ke
| on the closed doors on the other sid O.
the car. the messengers at on c opened
the doors. Express Messenger Murphy
| said: What do you want? You know
| we'll. Ihr1w up your hands
| Up went the hands. Get that box.
yelled one Of the robbers. Murphy re
Piled 4 here's nothing on the train to
night. Get down here out of the car,