The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-09-14
A FORTUNE STOLEN.
EXPRESS TRAIN ROBBED BY
INDIANA THIEVES,
CAR BLOWN OPEN With DYNAMITE

BOOTY Reported to lie $500, ,OOO-En-
gincer seriously Wounded-Twcnty
Five Men in tho Gang Omcinis
Deny That the Haul Was Largo
Fifteen Thousand Ia
Gold Overlooked.
KENDALLvILIE, Ind. Sept l3.--Lalte
Shore express train No ~, the New
York express, was held mp and robbed
by twenty desperadocs at keslcr
siding, west of here and 40 miles
from Chicago just after midnight yes
terday morning, one express car blown
up with dynamite, the safe blown open
and the engineer shot through the
shoulder The robbers. according to
the best figures obtainable here from
train men, but denied, as usual. by
express oNicials, secured $500, ,0lO, of
which go 900 iS said go have belong
ed to G. icago banl5 ami WAS being
sent To New York.
As the train was passing through "a
stretch OF timber land near hc siding,
the engineer saw q red liaht ahead and
s owed up As the rod lrhl drew
ucarer the engineer saw the group Of
men. In front Of the nrut the train
came to stop when u dozen men
sprang into the cab ana leyclcd rifles
aJ the heads of the engineer and fire
man with the order "Ihrow up Your
hands
The fireman lifted his arms at once,
but the engineer with cry of warm
ing on his lips turned toward The
passenger coaches \ dozen rilcc
were quickly turned toward the
plucky fellow and a dozen shots
startled the passengers who had been
awakened by the sudden stopping of
the ears The engineeI ramed Knapp,
had one hand on the throttle and at
tempted to start the train. One II the
desperadocs pushed big revolver
against his Shoulder and fred. TIC
bullet pa sed clear through, tear NJ a
hole in " hich lead pencil cou / be
laid.
THE EMPRESS CAR BLOWN Upl
The nest moment there was q
rife explosion. The robbers had
= 7mite under the train, and q
n-oAeu tae ez .r..es0|
splitana howed cash hrl,s'
side
T CON a.tor an. .H. brakeman
hurH t. .r U..-l on.
clvsro# O Nu tcrs IN th. L...-
~ men ssh. "a wpula shoot
..ulfts ..o made rhe rail-
r5na mon b~ moti'ulcss and
iumb ruaIl a 't '' eu' 'l
10 IN
tackled
The messenger behind Li barn
eaded door refused fl obey tue cor
mand of The r1buc-s to opcu th c4r
door Shot aftrr N-,t was hrsdat the
v..r but tae robbers soon saw they
could gain no entrance by iutimida-
tion. They were prepared ior this re-
sistance and seizing engineer and fire.
man they used them as bucl'lcrs.
The messenger then surrendered.
He was soon diSarmed and with a
blow on the head leveled on the
floor senseless.
Half a dozen of the twenty men
then looted the express car. Dyna
mite was again used in opening the
safe and the thieves used their own
time in taking everything they
thought worth carrying away. The
booty included several large package
marked 1000, - 900 and so ON. Ihes'
were carefully examined before the,
were stored away.
The guards at the doors of the pas
| senger coaches were called off, fey
parting shots were perhaps /
the air-to warn those on the trai
that pursuit meant death, and I'll
} band of robbers disappeared in th
! wooded stretch of land that skirts tn
: railroad.
NO TRACE OF THE DEsPERADoEs.
AS fast as legs could carry theI
messengers ran to kendaliyillc I
, spread the alarm The sheriff OF tn
! county, aroused from bed, called o
) all near him for help, aud soon "A poss
Y of residents of Kendallville wer
: speeding along the highway 10 Tn
1 scene OF the hold up They scoure'
the vicinity, beat through the brus
and travelled miles through the wood
D but they could find nothing.
e Guessing that the robbers mad com
r from Chicago the sheriff routed out
0 telegraph operator and wired 10 IL
I Chicago police the story OF the rol
1 berry.
The dynamite having wrecked onl
one express car, the robbers contente
themselves with looting this alon
. and made no effort to force an el
j. trance TO the second.
r The noise caused by the crashing {
I the door when the dynamite bomb ~
hurled against it was the first inlimi
G tion the passengers had that the iral
was in the hands of robbers. 1hel
was live scramble among the pa
sengers 10 crawl under the seats an
, secrete what valuables they hai
sight, such as watches and oth'
jewelry.
g STORIES OF HUGE HAULs pENlEp
h General Superindent Crosby OF u
n United States Express company d
q clared this afternoon that they wer
y carrying away nat'0n.' aanh h'te
bat secured mostly papan worthle