The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-12
About 100000 Thought
to Have Been Taken.
CAR OPENED BY DYNAMITE
An Eye Witness Gives a Brief
but Ora phic Account.
BY Associated Press to The News.

BY Associated Press to The News.
CHICAGO, c,r.. e. =. vas az
$3.50 this morning when a special
+, tficer at the Lake Shore depot
rushed into Harrison Street station
and told the lieutenant in charge
that train No. IA had been held up
and robbed while rolling over the
Indiana marshes. Lieutenant
Shepard at once sent half a dozen
officers 10 intercept the bandits if
they came toward Chicago. The
officers were given orders to 60 to
South Chicago and wait there until
daylight. The sheriff of the county
in which the train was held up
teiegraphed Sheriff Gilbert, of Cook
county, to be on the lookout for the
robbers, as they were coming this
way. The express car robbed was
one used by the United States. Elk
press company, and it is reported
that the loss by the robbery amounts
to nearly 100000, including a
shi plnent Vi $3.50 flom Chicago
to a New York bank. The crime
is thought to have been the work Of
a gang of tramps.
In the express car which was
robbed was the body of Mrs. Hal.
leck, of Marisches, Long Island,
who Auicidgd in the Gale House in
Chicago, after deserving her hush and
and being in turn deserted by her
paramount.
AT o'clock this morning on the
announcement that the train had
been robbed, one Of the Lake Shore
officials fastened to the home of
Manager Wygant, who stared at
once for the train dispatcher's office
at the depot, where a special train
was being made up for the eff ,ialt
of the railroad.
WANT A REWARD OFFERED.
INDrANAPoLIs, Ind. Sept. r.
The off ,ials of the United State
Express company have requested
Governor Matthews to offer re
ward for the capture of the robber,
who held up the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern train at Kesler
Ind this morning. Gov. Matthews
will instruct the sheriff of Noble
county to organize a posse and
search for the robbers.
MADE TOTALLY DEAF.
A special from Waterloo, Ind.
to the News says that Express Mes
senger Weist was rendered total.
deaf by tho explosion of the dyna
NIT. which the robbers employed t
, open the car.
CONDUCTORS ACCOUNT.
ToLEDo, OHIo, Sept. 12.-Tw'
l conductors who were passengers OIL
the robbed train live in Toledo
Covert, one of them, says: "Abou
1850 one of the brakemen awakened
me and said that some men wer
I holding the train up. We wen
, forward to the baggage car. l
!, was filed with trainmen and pas
! sergers. They were taking turns a
peeping out the door into darkness
Every few minutes shot was fire.
in the direction of the opening b.
q the guards on the outside. No on
could do anything. The baggag
car was next to the express cal
8 which was in charge of the robber,
They had blown the bottom of tn
car out with dynamite, completed
d stunning the two express msssen
d gers. Then they covered ther
s with revolvers and riied the safe
No one could tell how much the
got. Three men were in the o,
Dress car, and l should judge ther
y must have been in all between fv
= and ten men holding up the train.
. The stop was made in lonely pal
of the country in the cut east q
y Kendallyille. The robbers thre'
n a switch open in front of tn
d engine. James Knapp engineer
II was shot through the right shoulde
bv one Of .ham. "There must hav