The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-29
INCIDENTS OF A TRAIN HOLD Up.

out, but he seems sell pleased with his neigh
bors. and declines to move
INCIDENTS OF 4 TRAIN HOLD Up.
A Railroad Man. Observa ,ious or the
| Robber Gangs Method.
| From u. Bosom Herald
II have been connected with railroad mat
| ters to n considerable extent, and in 1892
| travelled over 10000 miles as special auditor
q tho Atchison. Topeka and santa Fd road
never had he opportnnity. had little ex:
in this this
this city. The event to which Mr.. HiCham re-
| ferred was the sensational train robbery which
took PLACE, on the Northern Pacific road. near
Graycliff. Mont. in the latter part of last Au-
rounded in a hut and killed By posse which
events were chronicled in the news " cou an
at the time. hut the accounts published con-
ta i Only TIE meaRre iacts' and none OF the
,:s Hsssm MID
Il v1sso%; and sgOf train T ISr 5 iS place
Northern Pacific. and it LETT Livingston at els
Se an ea W eoseSe 81
Pullman sleepers. These sleepers were at
tached to tho end Of the train. and in the last
gers in this car. and four were women. We
left Graycllf. small station about sixty five
About nine miles from this station tho
train came to sudden stop. and when we put
by shower Of bullets. and were Informed d'S By
some persons outside; who emphasized their
remarks with plenty OF curses on our cnriosi-
vice at once and the next incident was the
Of tha MIDI NfHr kHok ot,~
senr What s We had already sarmisoS that
the train had been beer held up BY robbers: and ad.
want them taken from US.
h, dd dd have greet ss S ss # but
etbook. in which I had about $3.50. picked out
a few small bills which | placed in my vest
aoWa: 1.-The TtthouT5t That IS s .o place a. any
which was wearing in my shirt front and sent
it to keeI company with the money. l was
sS Ens ana fSs dn tns fh The wS Sn
bank. then awaited developments. which
not onf IN I9mnT Sbo tr,,, left
EXPRESS cal. spd after r. tsFaip Sad got fairly
erawied over the tender and down Into the
CAB. The engineer afterward told me that the
ehester rife PRESSED asans. his he head AN" and
heard d0Tn the road upt
last. He oheyei orders. and about nine miles
from Graycliff he saw the light described and
more ore masked men boarded the train. took the
engineer and fireman from the cab. and. after
the express car. They ordered the fireman to
give the signal for the opening Of the car to the
got and to the
There were two safes In =, the car one small
Sae6 Ss S ns sae IN. rGs
ceived at the small sta: ions along The " fou t
amounts which are being shipped some dis
lance. The messenger has the com binaton TO
open it he did SO. All they got from this safe
was $50. however, and then they ordered him
to tSs he aid ee ne
tination and this was the truth. although no
hat hard time convincing the robbers OF the
at the larger places have the com bination OF
the large sairs, into .So which n they put the
also the ones from the smaller safes. The
messenger does not know how to open these
large safes. and when this particular one told
placing under the sale package which they
declared contained dynamite. It Was only a
senger was really in earnest they left the bag:
gage ear and formed line on the outside Of
side OF the train in single file. the engineer
leading tho column: then came the fireman.
Inc IOuT TObbtls III d row. .lncu lut express
messenger and last OF all the conductor.
As they nhssed along the robbers fired
OF tho cars This was to impress us. and while |
| felt that they did not intend to hit us, did |
not take NJ any more room above the top OF |
the scat than 1t was absolutely necessary for |
me TO occupy. on account of the danger from a |
CHANGING bullet. When the procession reached
Pullman car and started to, 60 through tho
train from the rear When the colored porter
he b hs door wh.n th
robbers commanded him to open it he fired a
sh at them with 32-calibre revolver. He
hitting the fireman and the robbers answered
with such IA, iusiIlnLe, that he soon crouehed
! olt. When the robbers did enter they kicked
him ali Al ound the rear o; the car.
formation AS it marched down on the outside
Of the train The leader Of the gang did all
a surprise. while he collected the goods and
was the third relson they approached.
cerncd. hpt in reality inwardly wondering
where | was al. when the loader and his file
came uranl tho former said:
Shell out. young man.
20 YOU want 4 al z asked. trying to APP
hurry "H 1n Hef .; a i%r
and ,.y way Of emphasis no put the muzzle OF
his Winchest"T rtle under my IN nose never
,r"sse in size every momcetI look ed at it, and
with y leader put my hand down in my
pocKet and pulled out the wad of small bills
which had extracted from my roll. This |
handed To him. and he counted 1t and found
here was only Sll.
Is mat ali you've got p he asked in dis
appoint ed tone of voice.
y" nut my hand down in my trousers pocket
and PULLED ont 20 cents In change and some
,oker chips. ile laughed when he saw the
'hips. and then he ttarlef TO feel OF my peck
cts. asking me again II that was all the oney
hal. ] assured hi that II was, and alter he
,ntisied himself that was telling the truth
he refused to take the silver. saying:
We'll, hang on to that. Buy drink with IT.
As he started 70 walk of no said: Don't
'ou carry watchf
81 did carry one. replied. hut that was
before the Butte races. loushould have tack
ed me before those came or
with that he walked of. The poker chips
md the story Of tho iiutte races were strong
,olnts OF circumstantlal evidence in his eyes.
md he left me satisfied that he had all that
vas worth taking from me.
" The robbers appeared TO be good natured
'nough. but they were not out for trihing.
ust In front Of me sAtql young telcgraph.on-