, 1891-11-12
HELD UP A TRAIN.
A LARGE AMOUNT OF BOOTY SAID
TO BE TAKEN.
A Bold Act of Railroad Highway
mem ON the Chicago, HHilwau-
kee & ST. Paul RatIrnnd

A Bold Act of Railroad Highway
mem ON the chicago, MfIwau-
kee & st. Paul Railroad.
MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 12-The midnight
train from Chicago on the Milwaukee &
st. Paulroad, was robbed by masked men
near Western Union Junction at / O'Clock
this morning. The train had been out to-
the junction, tWenty-three miles south of
this place, about half mile, when Fire
man Edward Ayerill, who was putting
some coal into the furnace, was startled by
noise behind him. He turned around
and discovered two masked men Chamber
ing over the engine tender Both Ieveled
their double-barreled guns at the fireman
and engineer, Bill Mckay, with an injuns-
ton, "dont move an inch until we tell
you to or we will blow the top Of your
damn heads off. Engineer Mckay was
directed to run about one mile from the
Western Union Junction. He was com
manded to stop, both men were ordered to
step down out Of the cab,
THEY WERE MARCHED
to the express car under cover and then the
work Of blowing open the safe began. Sew
eral bombs, the fireman thinks they were.
were thrown into the car and the explo-
siOnS were terrific and must have awakened
every passenger on the train, but nobody
appeared on the scene. The robbers un-
doubtedly were not less than six or seven
in number, Judging from the manner in
which they conducted operations. The train
men believe they had team close at hand
with which to cart away the safe, which
was taken boldly out of the car. Fireman
AyerilPs story was the most comprehens-
i've. 'They made walk ahead of them to
the express carr he said, "and they gave
me jimmy to pry open the boxes. They
got the messengers keys, though he was in
no hurry to give them up, and they will
have no trouble in getting away with the
money"
THE TRAIN WAS HELD
for over half an hour. The entire efforts of
the robbers were centered on the express
car and not q passenger was molested. The
fireman thinks there were half dozen men
guarding the coaches, however
MILWAUKEE, Nov. pa gang of masked
men stopped the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul north-bOund passenger train near
Western Union junction this morning.
aided by two confederates on the train.
The express car was attacked and it is re-
ported the messenger made desperate re-
IL "a
amount of money was taken from the ex-
press safe. The Tres are in bad condition
because OF the storm and particulars are
meagre, The passengers were not mo
lested A private dispatch says the ex-
press car was bleWn open with dynamite
bomb. The first news of the robbery was
brought to the Western Union Junction bv
the fagman. Milwaukee and Racine 20
lice We're telegraphed for Immediately and
Detective Hansen was provided with
special train on which he left at 2:40
o'clock.
'LEss THAN FIVE MINUTES
out of Western Union junction, !" said Mes
senger Murpy 'the train was Slowed M.
Suddenly musket was poked through
the top window Of the car and a second
later terrific explosion occurred that
Knocked both myself and Mr.. Cook in
heap. Half dozen more explosions fol-
lowed and both doors flew off the bolt.
Then two men wearing big black masks
clambered quickly into the car and covered
us with muskets. We were cautioned to
maintain silence, under penalty of getting
our heads blown Off After glancing hur-
riedly about the car the robbers fastened
their eyes on two iron boxes of the Ameri-
can Express Co.'S, The robbers brought
fireman in little later and went through
all the boxes. They compelled us to hand
over the keys. They dumped the boxes
out on the roadbed. One of the robbers
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