The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-13
WAS IT A BAND OF C0XENTEs?
The Seven Robbers Merely
Chatted with Passengers,
Offering No Violence.
EXPRESS CAR ALONE RoBBEp.
Badly Shattered by Dynamite, II
Rolls Int Jersey City Early
This Morning.

Train No. rs, north-bound, which was
held up last night on the Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
reached the Pennsylvania Depot at Jer-
sey City at sos this morning, bringing
with It a badly shattered express car.
No IA
The Adams Express Company's mes
sengers left the train and proceeded at
once to the Company's office In this city.
They reported that all of their safes
were rified by the robbers. 1t IL sup
posed that the bandits obtained between
$4,000 and 100000.
When the express car, which n one
belonging to the Atlantic Coast d.
vision, was side-tracked, passengers,
passers-by and trainmen gathered
around to examine a spectacle unique
In the history of railroading in this To-
cality.
The heavy oak door of the car had
been splintered by the dynamite used
by the robbers. and, in addition, the
marks left by the revolver bullets as
they ploughed their way through the
woodwork of the car were plainly Wis
ible.
Every pane of glass in the windows
OF the car had been fractured by the
force OF the explosion. and small frag-
ments were still scattered over the
floor Of the car
The officials of the Adams Express
company In charge of the car at the de-
safes had been ransacked. the other
packages In the car remaining intact.
Many OF the passengers who wit
Washington and Philadelphia, but a
York City.
Passenger ShakIeford's story.
Trainnen were, as usual reticent
about discussing the affair. But Col.
]. M Shakleford. a newspaper man,
time, gave sraphie account OF the
manner In which the robbers secured
their plunder and made their escape.
OF the Newark IN. j. Journal. and r.
prise Of brownsville. ca. He told the
about seven or eight miles tn. other
side OF Quantico station, / should say.
the train came to a sudden standstifl
0uanticp station, you know, is located
on the Potomac River on the Virginia
side. When the train stopped. the con-
ductor, NJ A. Birdsong, was thus ad-
dressed by one OF the masked robbers,
evidently the captain Of the gang:
your brains out
From the manner in which they ar
train, as well as the manner In which
they afterwards made their escape. II
was evident that several members Of
the gang were experienced railroad men.
Ihat they were desperate men was
even more evident. and the conductor
and the fireman lost no time in obeying
their instructions, and wisely. too.
There were at least six or seven
masked men and ] could plainly dis
tinguish them all in the clear moonlight
they come to me That IN spite OF their
masks l am almost sure that could
recognize some of them 4 1 could SEE
ne es asa dnes from and s vice a.
alarmed passengers crowded out OF the
cars to see what was the matter the
to intlmidate them as well as to frightsn
the railroad meh.
Blew Open the Car with Dynamite.
The. robbers. rined the express car
without loss of time. rhey pct their
the express car and blew it open.
The engineer is a man named Frank
Gallagher, he was an old employee on
the road and as brave as could be, the
railroad men tell me. but two or three
OF the villains attended to the engineer,
while two or three more OF them at
tended TO the express messengers and
another one or two kept guard on pas
sengers and train.
Some of the desperadoes even went SO
far as to converse In clever. daring
fashion with the passengers and the
tralnmen. This made US all the more
indignant. but we could do nothing 10
heip ourselves. Most Of the pass sngers
We're cool and collected after the hrst
flush of the excitement was over. re-
member It struck me as being a humor-
Gus thing when We found out after an
examination OF all our pockets, that we
had only one pistol TO the entire crowd.
and that little bit of a one, and the
mischief Of 1t was that II wouldn't work
AZ all when the owner Of 1t tried TO dIs-
charge II at the robbers as they dlsap-
peared in the darkness.
But that wasn't half so laughable AZ
was the incident OF one woman who had
a little diamonds studded watch. She
tried to get her husband to swallow Il IN
the excitement. but he declined to at
tempt the preservation Of the watch IN
that fashion,
was the way IN which Vie
robbers made N r. escape. They cut The