Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-10-23
THE COOK GANG DID IT..
Further Details of the Correta
s. Train Robbery.
MARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS.

xhe Bandits Poured Lead From Their
winchessers Into ths Sides of Coaches
During the Holdup-Armed Onicers
Were on the Train, but Did Not
Take Part.
LITTLE Rock. Oct. 23.-The crew of
the train on the Kansas and Arkansas
Valley road, which was held up at Cor
reta siding, I. T., Saturday night, ar
rived in this city at 6:45 Sunday even
ing, nearly 10 hours overdue. The
coaches were too badly damaged by the
fusillade of Winchester shots fired into
them to make the trip. and were ex-
ghanged at Van Buren, for other coaches.
The robbers stopped the train by
throwing the switch at Correta, thus
cumming it into the siding. The engine
struck three boxcars on the siding,
which We're badly wrecked by the col
lision. The pilot was torn from the en-
CINE, but no other damage was done.
The crash threw some of the passen-
gers from their seats, but none were Sc
riously injured.
As soon as the train stopped, two of
the bandits took charge of the fireman
and engineer, while the others began
the search for booty. There were eight
men in the gang. Two entered the COM
bination express and baggage car, while
the other four remained on the outside
and terrorized the passengers by firing
into the side of the coaches. No money
was carried by the express messenger,
and the only money secured was $415
belonging to the railroad company,
which was taken from the baggagemas-
ter. That amount was made up of
small remittances of station agents.
After leaving the baggagecar the
bandits entered the smoker and began
operations by holding up the news
butcher, evidently intent on robbing
the passengers. just at this juncture
freight train was heard approaching In
the rear of the passenger train and the
robbers were frightened away. Con-
duetor Dunklin, who attempted to leave
the rear of his train to flag the freight,
was fired at four times. but was not hit
The robbers became demoralized and
fed as the freight approached.
While the express and baggage car
were bsing looted, four of the robbers
on the outside kept up constant firing
into the passenger coaches, and though
but ons person was injured, it is a
miracle that dozens were not killed, as
the bandits used 44-caliber Winchesters
and fired more than fifty shots into the
car, many of the rifle balls passing en-
tirely through one side of the car and
finding Judgement In the opposite wall.
The passengers were terror stricken,
and most of them sought refuge under
the seats Advance Agent Mahara was
the only passenger to remain in his seat.
He was struck by a rife ball in the left
side Of his head and seriously, though
not perhaps fatally. wounded Many of
the lady passengers were taken from the
car by some Of their male companions
and found places of safety on the OPP
posite side of the train, although driv-
ing rain was falling.
The railroad officials were expecting
an attack and had Chief Detective
Dickson, together with Deputy United
States Marshals Bruner and Heinrich
on the train to guard it. They were in
she smoker armed with Winchesters,
but what defense they made does not
appear from the reports that have
reached here.
The robbery was evidently committed
by the Cook gang, who, although green
hands at the business, have been terror
izing the territory for some time.