Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-21
A IRAIN Held UP.
Elrd,loEs Villains Attack a Central
Illinois Express.
vnGAYr DrrENsE OF me GREW.
One VI the Robbers Caught aud I'm
prlson,d.- fhe others Escape
Securing Nothing.


f1r New Ohtans NJ O'Clock
yosiordny afternoon and arrlyou
btfe ut mldnighi, two and a
hall hours late, with Engineer
hrn Young In the cab and Ei Me-
D.ugh ~ fireman. The train stopped
nt Coal Chute, south of the city, for
fuel, when the robbers, who rose on TOP
u the baggage car swung down on inc
tcuder ami fired three shots NJ the en-
gincer ami fireman, 0uu shot aifihiug
the engineer Ia the shoulder and com
lug cut nt the elbow. the other nut
him IN the back, lodging In the lcit
hip. Tho flromHu was fhot IN the
shin aud In the forehead, onu nal
lodging Ia tho neck. He then struck
one fObber knocking him OIL the train
aud leaving him senhcless. one
rohbuT ha1 entered the baggage car
ia tne meantime and ordered the cN.
pross messenger ut tho point ui
The revolver 90 throw up his
hands and open the raie. The reply
was that the safe was already open,
aud when the r01bur was at Work
there, the brakeman went TO thu
passenger car and asked that every.
body with guns should come on. The
robbers were In the express car. An
old time brakeman, Jake Saudcra, oi
Duqu0in, was Just returning from a
hunt and az once went 10 the car
opening FIRE. lie just entered the car
lu which the handit was nt work. In
trying to reach over Conductor Odum
10 shoot, he caught the conductor In
the right hand, iniiictiug Hught
wound. The robhur got tue ball over
tho left eye. The man captured Is a
wounded robheT, who passes under the
name Of Daniel l., Joseph, anu carries
travelling card from the Chicago
Order VI Railway Trninmen, Issued
August -; also a Hwitchman's card
issued by the santa Fe route at Kansas
CITY. After being shot he jumped
from the car anu was caught by the
,raln, his foo. being crushed. Tho
train was Ia charge Of Conductor
Oium with lieu Young as engineer
anu McDough ~ brennan. When the
brakeman went back and gave the
alarm, the pnssuugera commenced hid.
ing their vnluablta ana this lamI In tho
entire train were turned down. Thcr9
was some talk OF hanging the Iotb5F
caught, hut wistr counsel prevailed
and hot now la the city jail under
guard. The train carries valuable eN.
pruss matter between Chicago and the
south ana thorc IL little doubt that the
Intention was b blow up tho sife.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Cenlralia, Ills, goes on record Tor
once OF well planned train robbery
that failed Of success. At miduight
Lest night the Now Orleans limited
ffom Chicago reached here. Three
men focreled themselves on top VI the
express car and when the train
stopped at tho coal chute, a short dist
gnoe further on 10 take con, tho robbers
climbed down and over the tender,
calling on the engineer anu fireman ~
throw up their hanuH, Instead Of do.
Ing 20 they made for the robbers who
nfed, wOunuing both severely. The
robbers then attacked tho express car,
firing numerous shots through the
door. The eXpro,A messenger and
conductor, who happened 10 be In
the car, replying In kind I'LL the door
was shot iuli Of holes, Tue robbers
finally broke open the door with
Bledge hammer and letting themselves
down over the top Of the ear with
graphing irons renewed the tlght
with the messenger and conductor,
who IA the meantime barricnded
themselves behind boxes and hampers.
While this was going on brakeman
wArned the passengers, who proceeded
10 conceal their valuahles. Among the
passengers was an old-lime brakeman,
Jake Sanders OF Duquoin, who had =
shotgun. He went nt once 10 the eX-
pfcAA car and succeeded In bring
ing down one OF tho TObbere
with well aimed shot. Seeing
the game up the other two robbers
fled, having secured nothing. IL is
Understood that "A large amount OF
money was IA the express sale. It ID
thought the wounded fObber will die.
His name IN believed 20 bD Daniel l..
JOtephs, evidently railroad man, as
he carried q card from the order Of
Railway Trainmen, Issued at Chicago,
ami awitOhmau'a card from the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe nj
Kansas CITY. In the melee Engineer
Young received bullet IN his Shout
der, coming out NJ tho elbow, anu an.
ther Ia the back lodging In the hip.
Fireman Mcdowell was also twice
wounded, once In the leg aud once Ia
the neck. Conductor Odum was also
wounded slightly In the hand. Alarm
was ut once given here aud a large
posse turned cut to hunt for the rob-
befs.
the WOUNDED ROnBER.
1t now appears that tho name OF tho
wounded robber 10 -. j.. J1ucs Of
Oxford Mills, lowe. lie was hit with
moukeywrtnoh by tho frtmnn and
was 10 badly hurt that be soon fell
exhausted. Tho robbsr who was shot
by Sanders escaped with the Others
IL also appears TINT there were four
fobtcrs Instead OF three.
THE GANG.
After the robbers had fed, the train
backed up TO the station and new
Train crew was put on hoard and pro.
ceudcd. The whole city was aroused
by the ringing Of hrebells, and
tue captured bandit was threat
entd with lynohiug unleea he made
iull confession. Ho said the other
members OF tho gang were named
Charles o. Dryer, this city; James
Harding, Danville, H., ana a man
named Nicholas, ana he also impli.
Gated man named Martin Of Duquoln
IN the plot though he tool, no mart In
the robbery. Dwyer's house was i'm.
m0diataly surrounded aud aufrenier
demanded. His mother refused 10
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