The evening world., 1893-09-12
20 MASKED BANDITS.
They Hold Up a Tain l40 Miles
from Chicago.
Engineer Terribly Wounded--Ex'
press Car Rent by Dynamite.
One Safe Emptied - Passenger
Guarded, but Not Attacked.

CHICAGO. Sept. 12.-Twenty masked
men held un a Lake Shore train i4O
miles from { ,icago. near midnight. and,
after ~wounding the engineer. blew open
the safe in the express car and stole its
contents.
The train was the one which drew out
of the Twelfth street depot Of the 1lli-
nois Central road at 7.45 last evening.
1t reached Kendallville. Il small station
in Indiana, little short of four hours
later. 1t went past the town and had
hardly gone a mile through a stretch of
timtcrland when the engineer reduced
speed near a curve.
AS Inc engine ratified around the turn
Engineer Knapp saw a red light ahead.
His hand was at the lever in an instant,
and as the train went slower and the red
light drew nearer the engineer saw a
group of men. In front of the red light
the train came to a stop. A dozen men
sprang into the cab and levelled rifles at
the heads of the engineer and fireman.
The two railroad men stood %stupetied
as the rifle barrels cleaned in the flicker
ing light, and the robbers said. Throw
up .our hands"
The fireman was peaceful enough and
Ilt'u nS dTlIlS III OHCt. but ~ eiiBiHSeT
vas not so timid. He paid no heed to
I've men nor to their arms and with d
6 OF warning on his lips turned
to..arls the passenger coaches. A dozen
ri.s we're quickly turned towards the
rlueky fellow and u dozen shots startled
tao passengers, who had been awakened
" H., sudden stopping of the cars.
low many of the shots struck the poor
.pt v~a1 NOT ANran1 h,,t he
r4!l with tho blood gushing from several
wounds.
As the train stopped there was
n terrible explosion. The robbers
had rut dynamite under the train, and
as the stillness Of the lonely place was
broken the express car cracked and split
and showed a huge cash in its side.
The conductor and the brakeman hur-
ried to the platforms, only to be Gov
cred by Wholesalers in the hands of
men who said they would shoot to kill
II a move were made. The railroad
men became motionless and dumb. A
guard was put at the end of each car
and the express car was attacked.
The messenger behind his barricaded
door refused to obey the of
the robbers to open the express car en-
ohAS b]ihok ottC oiiot wac ~ ~ tiiS
car. but the obber soon saw they
could gain no entrance by intimidation.
They were prepared for this resistance.
u, The messenger, pouring shot after shot
at the robbers through the opening, was
soon disarmed. n with a blow on the
head levelled to the floor senseless.
Half a dozen of the twenty men then
looted the express car. Dynamite was
-,al, ,,AI L., 49, -.1
the thieves used their own time in taxi
Ing everything they thought worth car
rying away.
The guards at the doors of the pas
senger coaches We're called off, IA few
parting shots were fired to warn those
on the train that pursuit meant death,
and the band of robbers disappeared
in the wooded stretch of land that skirts
the railroad.
As fast as legs could carry them mes
sengers ran to Kendallville to spread the
alarm. The Sheriff of the county,
aroused from bed. called on all near
him for help, and soon a posse of resi-
Tents Of Kendallville were speeding along
the Highway to the scene of the OBJ
berry. They secured the vicinity, beat
through the brush and travelled miles
through the WOOus, Dut tnty COulu nlu
nothing.
Guessing that the robbers had come
from Chicago the Sheriff routed out a
telegraph operator and wired to the
Chicago police the story OF the robbery.
The train held up was the New York
express on the Lake Shore road. which
reaches Kendallville about midnight. 1t
was made up last night Of ten coaches,
two express cars and one baggage car.
The dynamite having wrecked only one
express car, the robbers contented them
selves with looting this alone, and made
no effort TO force an entrance to the
second.
1t was $50 this morning when the
special officer at the Lake Shore depot
rushed into the Harrison street station
and told the Lieutenant in charge that
No. II had been held up and robbed
while rolling over the Indiana marshes.
Lieut.. Shepard at once sent half a
dozen officers 10 intercept the bandits II
they came towards Chicago. The off,
GERS had orders to go to South Chicago
and walt there until daybreak.
The Sheriff OF the county IN which
the train was held up telegraphcd Sher-
IN Gilbert. of Cook County. to be on
the lookout for the robbers. as they
were coming this way.
A tramp who was stealing a ride on
the express car OF the train said there
must have been twenty or twenty-five
men ID the gang. lie says that as soon