The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-15

CAIRO III, Nov. 11.-Iuinois Central
train No. -. due here at 1.30 this morn
ing. was stopped at Maylield bridge Ky,
about eight miles south of Cairo, by flva
masked men. supposed To have boarded
the train ar BardweH. As soon as the
train stopped robbers gained entrance to
the EXPRESS car and secured $50 I'm cash
and "a valuable package. the contents Of
which are not known. The robbers then
left the train and made for the woods. The
train was IN charge of Conductor Charles
Shearin and +. y. NcNeaI was messen-
ger, both of whom fired several shots at
the robbers, but without effect. No clew
as yet.
The express car was robbed Of two
money package one Of which was ad-
dressed 10 j. $. Titus. Chicago, and the
other, a bag. contained an unknown
amount of money IN transfer from
Memphis To Chicago. The express mes
senger saved the remainder of the con-
tents Of the safe. Second Nice-President
Harahan Of the Illinois Central tele-
graphed word along the line to spare no
money TO bring the robbers to the peni-
tentary and a reward VIII probably be
offered for their capture.
Engineer Clarke makes the following
statement:
"Three men climbed over the tank
while we were leaving Bardwen. One
of them said:
NJ. Clarke. pun out IS soon as YOU
can, at the same time grabbing my left
arm and pulling a 45-calibre Colts re-
volver. and placing the weapon to my
ear ne told me to Go what they wanted
done. that they did not wish 10 hurt me,
but would Kill me If I did not obey.
About that time Fireman Butler ran
away ana got on the pilot Of the engine.
I wanted TO set down ana put in some
coal but they would not allow me to get
of my seat one OF the robbers did the
firing for ms from BardWell 10 TT. JEFF
ferson. They told me 10 stop the ex-
press car at 1IayheId trestle. / told
them I had passed a train at Bardwell
and ] insisted upon asking them to let
me put a fagnan of to protect the rear
end OF the train. They refused 10 90 50.
but / Insisted. claiming that I was afraid
Of the fr light train running into Us
when we stopped at Aiayheld trestle.
They made me get Off the engine and go
I'm front Of them TO The express car door.
and they told me u open the door.
called ATcNeal and told him TO open up
and not shoot as 7 was in the front OF
the robbers. One of them went into the
express ear and came cut with several
bundles and put them into heavy sack.
He told me To pick the dynamite
on the platform If the car. which
did and put into The sack. They then
had me 10 get Ju the engine and carry
them To Ft. j. -rs0n. because they
wanted TO get oI at the stove factory.
They got of Og the east side, about
twenty yards from the road crossing at
Ft. jefferson. They got behind some
plling and told me TO pun out fast. I
asked them if they We're going to
bother the passengers. They told ma
no. and thar they did not want any
thing that / had. The robbers carried
double-baTrelCd shotguns with pistol
grips Two of them also had ten-inch
4-caliber Colts reYOlyers. while the
other had a hve-inch Colt"
Opinions differ as 10 the amount of
money contained i'm the valuable pack
age secured" The cairo officials say
that the consignment consisted or 81
O00 but this Alr. Harahan is inclined
to doubt The only man who knows
exactly what was i'm the package is the
Illinois general agent at Memphis. who
consigned il 10 Chicago and his report
probably VIII not be made public.
American Express Messenger L. =.
Mcneil also acted as baEgageman. The
officials Of the express and railroad cOm-
panies have no fault 10 find with the
men, I'm fact, they are rather delighted
that Mcneil concealed all Of the Valu-
able packages he could in the short
time Of warning that he had. But few
Of the passengers Of the train were aware
of the robbery at the time