Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-29
Observation-Disclosures
A Desperate Attempt to Hold Up an
Express Train.
ONE ROBBER WAS CAPTURED BY
The Conductor After Hot Chase
in Which Several Six-shooters
Were Emptied-The Fireman
Murdered by One of the Rob-
bers-S1, 900 for the Conductor

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, June 2S. The
boldest attempt at train robbery that ever
occurred in Texas or in the country was
made this afternoon about 2 O'Clock, near
the little village of Breckenridge, In Will
son county, thirty miles south OF thls CITY.
The train held up was the San Antonio
and Aransas Pass passenger NO. D. leaV,
ing here at 30 p. m. The analr resulteo
in the killing of K. N. Martin, the nreman,
and the capture of one OF the ROBBERS, VINO
gives his name as j. d. May, COWBOY.
The train was in charge of Conductor
Ed. Steele, Engineer Mike Tierney and
Fireman Martin, all Of San Antonio. IL
consisted of three day coaches, express car
and combination baggage and mail car.
AT Breckenridge the train stopped 10
take water, and as she pulled out three
men boarded the blind baggage, put were
30 guarded in their movements that tney
Eere not seen by the train crew i,
4 The engineer pulled out at q speed OF
about fifteen miles an hour and had JUST
leutered sharp curve few hundred yards
from the tank, when the roooer May ciimo,
bd upon the tender with 45calibre pistol
in each hand, threw the guns down upon
the engineer and firemen;
Throw up your hands, God damn you,n
said the robber 10 the men. rms remark
was the first intimation that the engineer
II Martin had that they were 10 DC nelu
Up. Tierney threw up his hands, out Mar.
in made movement as though he was
aaout IN secure a pistol from box under
bio seat.
The robber then began pouring lead into
artin and emptied one six shooter into
h:s BODY, keeping Tierney covered all the
ii te with the other pistol. Martin fell
dead and his body rolled out OF the gang
way of the engine onto the track wnere IL
wac run over by the wheels and mutllateu.
rhe otner two train robbers, when they
saw the dead body fall out OF the cab,
jumped from their position on the baggage
car to the platform and made Tor the
brush. There were but two passengers on
the train. and each was armed with SIX
shooter When they heard the hrlng they
rushed TO the platform, ana az the Two
robbers ran into the brush volley was
fired after:them.
man. seeing that he had been deserted,
made q last desperate effort al entering the
train single-handed He jumped into the
cab and ordered Engineer Tierney to run
the train across Indian river bridge. The
engineer, instead of complying, put on the
cir brake and the train came 10 stand
still.
The robber then grasped the throttle and
threw her wide open but the train would
not make any Roadway, and with parung
shot at the engineer, the robber jumped
from theleugine and started up the track
on hard run.
Conductor Steele rushed up to the en-
piue with a siX-shooter in his mana. he
Jumped into the cab and cutting loose from
The train started with Messenger Butler
train robber.
The throttle was pulled wide open and
the light engine leaped along the track,
gaining every moment on the robber, who
wonld turn and ire at his pursuers as he
ran. 4.
Finding that he could not reach the
bridge over the river, where his Winches-
ter and three pals awaited him, the robber
left the track as the engine was almost
upon him. The engine was brought 10
standsull and Conductor Steele started
after the roboer single handed. He chased
him into the brush, firing at MIN as ne
went. %.
The three robbers at the bridge with
winchesters commenced firing at the con-
ductor. and their volleys were returned by
the engineer and messenger. Conductor
Steele overhauled the robber ne was after
and disarmed him Of two pistols. The
robbers at the bridge then disappeared,
leaving their Winchesters behind:
The United States Marshal and posse OF
deputies went down from here on special
train and are in pursuit Of the robbers j.
d. MAY, the man who was captured, re-
fuses to make any statement further than
that il was the intention of the band is rob
the express and passengers.
He was taken TO Breckenridge for safe
keeping as threats were made oy railroad
men that he would be lynched If brought
here. Martin, the fireman who was killed
was unmarried. Conductor Steele will
will receive 81 900 standing reward from
the State for the capture of train robbers