River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
BANDITS AT WORK.
Three Masked Men Rob an Illinois
Central Train.
The = h'rir Occurs Near Cairo - Leaving
the Passengers InmoIested, the Ex-
press Car Is PIundered of
Large sum.
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hASDw1LL, Ky. Nov. IA. - Three
rassked rc3berc held up north bound
.=ain. 70. %, on the main line of the
Illinois Central az 3 a IN. Saturday at
Maytield creek trestle, "a niles north
Of Mayfield Junction. The express
car was robbed of two r1caey
packages. one containing s33 2dLresSed
to j. ). TitTc, Chicago, and the other a
bag containing an unknown amount Of
money Il transfer from Memphis to
chicago The express messenger saved
the remainder of the contents of the
safe.
Opinions differ as to the amount OF
money contained in the ''valuabte pack
age" billed on waybill 81 as No 146. At
Cairo the officials say that the consign-
ment consisted of $1,000. but this Mr.
Harahan is inclined to doubt. The only
man who knows exactly what was I'm
the package is the Illinois Central
agent at Memphis who consigned il to
Chicago, and his report TO Mr. Harahan
will not be made public
About 8 o'clock, while the train was
leaving Bardwell. three men climbed
over the tank. and one of the robbers
said to Engineer Clark: Pull out as
soon as you can At the same time
the robber grabbed the left arm of the
engineer and one of them put a
revolver under his ear. ordering him at
the same time to do what they wanted
or they would kin him. The fireman
ran away and got on the pilot of the
engine, where he remained in hiding
he h.1 Al.
work.
While this was going on the passen-
gers in the two sleepers and three
coaches which made up the tram were
In ignorance, AS all were asleep and no
firing was done TO awaken them. The
engineer wanted to get down and put
In some coal, but the robbers refused
TO let him stir from his seat ins the
cab. One of the robbers did the firing
for him from Bardwell to Port Jeffer-
son and ordered him to stop the tram
on the Mayfield trestle. The self-pos-
sessed engineer insisscd that the rob-
bers should let him put the fiagman off
to protect the rear end of the train and
the lives of the passengers, because
they had passed a freight train at Bard
well, which might run into them.
This the robbers agreed To and when
the train was stopped by their orders
at the trestle they forced the engineer
at the point of their guns to go in
front of them to the express car door
and open it. lie shouted To Ex-
press Messenger Mcneil TO open the
door and not to shoot. as he was in
front of the robbers. One of the rob
beers went into the car and came ont
with several bundles, which he
put into sack. lie told the
engineer to pick up his dynamite
on the platform of the car
and put it in another sack. which Clark
did. In the robbers company and with
revolvers close to his head the engineer
carried the train to Port jefferson,
where the robbers got behind some pill
ing and shouted to the engineer to:
Pull out fast, old inanv
In reply to Clark's question the rob-
bers said they were not going To bother
the passengers and they kept their
promise.
After a conference with General Man
ager A. Antisdel, of the American Ex-
press, reward of 81, 800 was offered
aud ordered posted in the vicinity OF
the robbery.