The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14
BY A NEwsPApR MAN.
he Tells of a Cool L. of Robbers
Who ChafTed the hssengers.

Who ChafTed the hssengers.
New York. Oct. 1S.-Te train held
up last night reached t. Pennsylvania
depot, Jersey City, at S. this morning
with a badly shatterl express car.
The Adams Express copany's messen-
ger reported that all tt safes had been
rifled, and it is suplsed that the
bandits obtained between 100000 and
5000 900. The heavy tx doors of the
EXPRESS car had beef splintered by
dynamite. Marks ofrevolver bullets
were visible and ever!pane of glass in
Che windows of the C. had been shat
tered by the explosic and fragments
of glass were still Suffered over the
floor of the car. Tt officials uf the
Adams Express comTny, in charge OF
the car at the depot, .lailned that only
the pouches and sas had heen ran
sacked.
Many OF. the passlgers who wit
messed the hold-.lp eft the train at
washington and Philadelphia a few of
them completing tn journey to New
York City Trainnn were as usual
reticent about discuSng the affair, out
Colonel. ]. NJ. Shaclford, a newspaper
man, who happenedo be on board the
train at the time, dpussed the incident
freely and gave a graphlc account CT
the manner in whl the robbers Sc
cured their plund and made their
escape. Mr.. Shaclford was formerly
An editor of the Nvark Journal. He
Jas now connected VIII the 'rimes-Enter-
prise, of Thomasvle Ga. lie told the
following story: About z or miles
the other side of !uanticos station the
train came to d sdden stop. Quantico
is located on theSotomac river on the
Virginia side. yen the tr3ln stopped
( she conductor. 4. A. Bridsolg, was
TINS addressed " one of The masked
robbers. evidepy the captain of the
gang: .eThrowip your hands ar We'll
blow your bra out
"Frorn the rnner in which they ar
ranged the snals for stopping the
train. as welltS the manner in which
they afterwais ma lie thei- escape, IL
rras evident hat several of the gang
were experieeed railroad neh. That
they we're sperate was even more
evident ana the conductor and fire.
man lost nFime in obeying their in
attractions a wisely complied There
1rare al lea six or seven masked men,
and 'eonl9lainly distinguish them all
IN the cle moonlight OF the early
Tn fact clear die they come to me
ehat in sps OF thelr masks am dlirlosI
er,ra +baI could recognize some of
thorn If could see them again, from
certain lie particularities of dress or
eneeeb Then the alarmed passengers
.,rowded,ut of the cars to see what
was thlmatter, the robbers fired a
raereao+ isilade of shots to intimidate
+henn awell as TO frighten the rail-
road m.
short der.
m.aFree with the Passengers.
/ aco, of the desperadoes even went
\ O. fo Is to converse in clever daring
Afashil with passengers and trainmsn
eThie aae us all the more indignant,
bnt could do nothing to help our
seive All Of the passengers were
Moo Id collected after the first flush
II excitement was over.
s.T5as told that they overlooked one
,onI in the car in their hurry. 1 don't
lynr Just how much they got away
nit but some of the trainmen thought
a list amount to at least $4,000 or
,oo,bly 100000.
ne express messengers did the best
~ could to prevent the robbers from
ling into the car, but the dynamite
81 the revolvers of the gang were
ahgh to make any man weaken. They
eeatened to kill the messengers on
I spot if they refused to open the
Re. The messengers refused TO yield
their demands until the captain Of
e gang said:
IA I'll give you just thirty seconds to
et to work.
Then the men gave. in"
The Adams Express company is not
hforned as to the amount Of money Sc
sured Dy the robbers.
Mr.. T.. c. Weir of the Adams Express
mpany, said to an Associated Press
porter today as the waybills were de-