St. Paul daily globe., 1893-08-29

OEpItAl MOhNlNG, "A l
rather tired that night, 80 [ had the
porter fix up my birth and l retired |
had the first berth in the car. and my
wife had the one directly across. Mrs.
Gaie was two compartments below. My
wife also retired early. and my daughter
was the only one up. | suppose l
must have fallen into sort Of
.doze, fer the first thing | remeIn-
Der was the conductor coming into
the sleeper aud giving the passengers
the startling warning to put away their
valuables, as he thought the train was
being held up. Hide your money and
jewplry," said he, ''for the train is
stopped, and think 1t has been boarded
by robbers" l was by this time fully
awake. and found sure enough that
the train was at siandstill. | heard
cries and shots. but they were evidently
all i'll the other end of the train, our
sleepers beIng coupled Oh III the rear
Of several ordinary coaches.
NJ first gave my watch and jeweiry and
diamond studs to my daughter. believ-
ing that the robbers would not Inoiest
ened, but took things as cOoIly as
though nothing had happened. Neither
was Mrs. Pillsbury frightened very
mitch. although there were several
ladies in the car who were quite
unneryed. Then L divided what cash
hat,. putting half in my vest pocket
where could easily reach it, ior knew
l would have 10 give the robbers some
thing, Then | lay down again. Mrs.
Gale went into my wite's berth, dressed
as she was, and lay down beside her.
at was not long before the highway
men had reached the door of our car.
There was a tumult of the loudest,
most horrible profanity j have ever
heard. They hammered and kicked
upon the door, which the porter. who
was a brave man in al emergency, had
locked and would not open. The
rSbberS grew more furious at
the delay and began firing into
the car. They fired two shots.
One bullet went into the panel above
my head. Then the porter was obliged
to open, AMI the robbers marched in.
They drove before them the engineer,
expressman and conductor of the train,
aud kept them subjected with their
guns. They first paid attention to the
Pullman car conductor, from whom
they took his watch. | came next,
and was the first passenger in
our car to be robbed. They
pushed aside the curtains of my berth,
and in most horribly profane language
told me to lose no time in giving up my
money and jewelry. They came back
to our car anG would have gone through
ii again, saying they had not got half
what they ought to have had out of that
car, but they were resisted from going
through it second time.
There were probably eight men in
the gang. They got on while the train
was upon the main track. having
stopped for water. One of the men, it
seems, crawled up over the tender. and
covered the engineer with his Win
chester. and took him in tow. The ex-
press car was. of course. the first
car they looted. There were two
safes in the car, one having
considerable money in it, and the other
| only about $50. The agent, with admir-
able presence of mind, threw q lot of
mail sacks over the first SAFE. concealing
| it from view. Then when the robbers
came he unloaded che second safe and
gave them the fifty. There being no
/ other safe in sight, they thought they
| had all there was in the car, and went
Pon.
| se"The whole operation took about
| three quarters of an hour. The portion
/ offcountry we were gsingtbrohgh at the
/ time is very lonely and wild. an ideal
I place for train robbery. The first stop
I after the robbery was at Billings. about
( sixty miles away. and the first thing L
did when L reached there was TO
/ send a telegram to the Tribune
/ giving the details of the robbery.
! paid for the telegram and gave it TO the
i conductor 20 send and the only reason
| L can Sue that the Tribune did not get it
4 is that the RAILROAD wanted the lie VS. of
| the robbery suppressed. Sunday MORN
/ Ing sent ai6ther and shorter telegram
1 which, see, the paper received.
Il 1.-The robbers got about 800 in cash
besides the jeWelry. | WAY lying upon
my right side with my face to the wall
OF the car, as it hurt me to lay upon the
4 other side on account of my rheuma-
1 tisrii. l reached up to take the money
from my vest pocket, the vest hanging
4 .aBoye me, and furnbled with it some
time. l was slow both on account of
the rheumatism and because
wanted to delay the mon as long
/ as possible. They ordered me to hurry
up, and one of them seized me roughly
by my rheumatic shoulder and shook
me. 1t hurt like everything, and said.
| look here. you don't want to do that.
LIZ III Stch iildlt, atQ tEhG SiiOuiuct
hurts Then i, turned over, and, for
the first time, found myself looking
/ right up the muzzle of Winchester.
| Three or four other guns, as they call
/ their long pistols out there, were leveled
at my head. This sight and the threat
eniug aspect of the men made me move
a tritle quicker. They took the
money gave them and without asking
for more or searching the berth passed
on to loot the other passengers. AL
four men wore masks made out oil
white cloth and covering most of theil
i faces, with holes cut for the eyes. One
/, man had a Winchester rife, the other
two carried a big gun or two apiece, and
/ the third had a gun and bag, into
/ which the booty was put.
1t struck me that two OF the mer
wereeXpert in train robbing. They haC
the.air and appearance of typical des
peradoeS. The other two seemed
nov!eeS pressed into service. They al
kept up a continual stream of the viles
profanity, evidently with the intention
of terrorizing the passengers. They
passed on through the other sleepers a:
they did through ours. getting not more
than half what they may might have
had. | think they were hurried by TIT
appearance of an express train whicl
came and stopped some distance from
ours.
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