The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-11
EXPRESS TRAIN Held UP
Engineer Forced to Run at
the Point of a
Pistol.

BAIDWELL, KY. Nov. II, 1893. Three
closely masked robbers held up north
bound train No. 90 on the main line OF
the Illinois Central early this
morning at Mayfield Creek tres.
tie. two and one half miles north
of Mayfield Junction. The express car
was robbed of two money packages. one
containing S33. addressed to j. S. Titus,
Chicags. and the other bag of money con-
tained an unknown amount of money In
transfer from Memphis to Chicago. The
express messenger saved the remainder
of the contents OF the safe.
About three O'Clock while the train was
leaving Bardwell three men climbed over
the tank and one of the robbers said to
Engineer CIark:-"Pull out as soon as
you can"
At the same time the robber grabbed
the left arm of the engineer and one of
them pushed forty-f1ve Colts revolver
under his ear. ordering him at the same
time to do what they wanted or they
would kill him. At that time the
fireman ran away and got on the pilot OF
The engine, where he remained in hiding
until the robbers had finished their work
RoBBER ACTED AS FIREMAN.
While this was going on the passengers
in the two sleepers and three coaches
which made up the train were In iguor-
ance as all were asleep aud 60 firing was
done 20 wake them. The engineer wanted
to get down and put in some coal
but the robbers refused to let him
stir from his seat in the cab. One
of the robbers did the firing for
him from Bardweii to Port Jefferson
and ordered him TO stop the train on the
Mayfeld trestle. The seif-possssssd en-
gineer insisted that the ROBBERS should
| let him put. the q gman off to protect the
ro NM of fhQ = no 1juaa nf h..
| passengers, because they had passei
| freight train at Bard well which might
| run into them.
AT THE POINT OF A GUN.
| This ttorobbers agreed TO and thea the
! train was stopped by their orders at the
trestle. They forced the engineer at
the point Of their guns to go in trout
and ogen 1t. He shouted to
Express Messenger McNeill to open the
door aud not to shoot as he was In front
of the robbers. One of the robbers went
into the car and came out with severa
bundles which he put into {
sack. He told the engineer
to pick up his dynamite on th,
sack, which Clark did. In the robbers
company, and with revolvers close to his
| heal, the engineer carried the train to
| Port Jefferson where the robbers got
behind some piling and shouted to the
engineer to ''pull out fast. old mau."
10 reply to ClarK's question the robbers
said they were not going to botheI the
passengers and they Bept their promise.
| All the robbers wore soft hats and
masks of black cloth completely COW
| ering their heads with only the holes
out In for seeing and breathing. Two Of
them were spare built men ana the other
heavy and tall. with blue overalls on.
| One of the spare built men were we'll
dressed, but the clothes of all were
covered with mud. Ali carried hne
double barreled shot guns with pisto
| grip and colts revolvers.
AFTER THEM WITH BLooDHoUNDS
The Sheriff of Ballard aud Carlisle
counties and the Marshall of Fulton,
| Tenn, as seon as they were notified OF
the holdup; started with posse in diff
ferent directions TO hunt the robbers
| with bloodhounds.
Second Vice Presiden. Harahan, of the
Illinois Central sent word along the lin.
to spare no money to bring the robbers
TO the penitentiary and a reward viii
probably be offered for their capture.