The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-09-13
GANG OF BANDITS
Hold Up an Express Train ON
the Lake Shore Road.
The Engineer Resisted and Was
Shot Down.

ShoT Down.
Dynamite Is Placed Under the Express ca
and After Hand-to-Hand Battle with
the PIuelsy Messenger the Robbers BLOW
Amount of Money.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-About 90 masked
men held up Lake Shore train 12(
miles from Chicago near midnight
Monday night, and after woundina
the engineer, blew open the safe in the
train reached Kendalville, a small
station in Indiana, little short of foul
hours late. 1t went past the town ant
had hardly gone mile through 8
stretch Of timberland, when the en-
gineer slowed up near a curve. As tn,
engine ratified round the turn the en-
gineer saw red light ahead, wher
the train came to stop
A Dozen Men Sprang Into the Cab
and Ieveled rifles at the heads of the en-
gineers and fremen. The two railroad
men stood Supplied as the rifle CLEANED
in the Pickering light and the robber,
said: Throw up your handsr' The
fireman was peaceful enough and lifted
his arms at once. The engineer did no
do so at once and was riddled with bull
lets.
AS the train came to pause there
was a terrible explosion. The robbers
had put dynamite under the train, an6
as the stiffness of the lonely place was
broken the expresscar cracked and split
and showed a huge cash in its side
The conductor and brakeman hurried
to the platforms only to be
Covered by winchesters
in the hands of men who said they
would shoot to kill if a move was made.
The railroad men became motionless
and dumb.
A guard was put at the end of each
car and the expresscar was attacked.
The messenger, behind barricaded
door, refused to obey the command OF
the robbers to open the express car en-.
trance. Shot after shot was fired at the
car, but the robbers soon saw they could
gain no entrance by intimidation. They
We're prepared for this resistance. The
messenger,
Pouring Shot After Shot
at the robbers through the opening was
soon disarmed and with blow in the
head leveled to the floor senseless.
Half dozen of the 20 men then loot.
ed the express car. Dynamite was
again used in opening the safe and the
thieves Used their own time in taxing
everything they thought worth carry.
ing away. The guards at the doors OF
the passenger coaches were called off.
and the band of robbers disappeared III
the wooded stretch of land that skirts
the railroad.
AS fast as legs could carry them,
messengers ran to Kendallville to
Spread the Alarm.
The sheriff of the county, aroused
from bed, called on all near him fol
help, and soon posse of residents OF
Kendallville were speeding along the
highway to the scene of the holdup.
Guessing that the robbers had come
from Chicago the sheriff routed out a
telegraph operator and telegraphed tt
the Chicago police the story of the rob.
berry.
The train held up was the New York
express on the Lake Shore road. II
was made poi 10 coaches. two express.
cars and one bagggecar. The dynamite
having wrecked only one expresscar,
the robbers contented themselves with
looting this alone, and made no effort
to force an entrance to the second. The
Chicago city officers were given orders
to go to South Chicago and await there
until daybreak. The sheriff of the
county, in which the tain was held up,
telegraphed Sheriff Gilbert of Cook
county to be on the lookout for the rob
bers, as they were coming this way.
Score or More.
A tramp who was stealing ride on
the expresscar of the train, said there
must have been 20 or % men in the
gang. 1t is said that none of the pas
sengers were robbed. The expresscar
robbed was one used by the United
States company, and is supposed tc
have contained large sum of money.
The safe OF the United States express
contained $3.50, 600, being shipped east
by Chicago bank. 1t is not known
how much of the coin the robbers car
ried away.
Engineer Knapp made a plucky
fight when the robbers climbed into the
cab. He struck one with the coalpick
and knocked him senseless. Another
opened fire and shot the engineer in
the chest, seriously wounding him.
The fireman saw chance to make his
escape and, Jumping through the cal
window, ran for his life.
May Rench $500, 900.
1t is reported that the loss by the rob
berry amounts to nearly $500, 600, in.
GLIDING a shipment of $3.50, 600 from
Chicago to a New York bank. The
crime is thought to have been the work
of gang of tramps.