St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-19
SOUTHERN TRAIN LOOTED.
MASKED MEN HOLD UP AN EXPRESS
NEAR ST JOE.
A GREW COMPLETELYs UsDUED

Five Highwaymen Helped
Themselves = Fifty Thousand
Reported Lost = Mail for the,
Northwest Taken.
| ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Jan. 1S.-This city
| has been the scene of another train rob-
berry. Five masked men held up the
/ train OH the Kansas City, st. Joseph &
| Council Bluffs road at All early hour TINS
morning The entire contents of the
safe in the express car was secured by
the robbers. No one was injured.
The robbers could not all be de-
scribed, but are supposed to be the same
! gang that held up and robbed the Chi
cago fast train. the Elton the Hannibal.
just week ago tonight. Two OF the
men answer the description given of
| two of the Eli robbers.
The scene of the robbery this morning
was what is known as Roy's branch, two
miles north of this city, aud is the same
! place where an attempt was made to
hold up train on Sept. % last. when
the two men were killed, and for which
crime another was sent to the peniten-
| tiary.
The train left the Francis street de-
pot at 1880 o'clock, in charge of Con-
ductor William Haywood and Engineer
Ed Davis. When the train reached
Roy's branch torpedo exploded under
the wheels of the engine and a red
| lantern was swung across the track.
| The engineer put OH the air brakes, and
| the train slowed up, coming to a stand
still at almost the exactly same spot on
which the dummy train stopped on the
| night of Sept. %. The train ran past
| the place where the robbers intended it
| should stop, and the men were left be-
| hind the engine. Shortly after the stop
! had been made. however. man came
! RUNNING OUT OF THE BRUSH
alongside the track, and, covering the
| engineer and fireman with revolver,
shouted: Throw up your hands,"
Then he ordered Engineer Davis and
Fireman Baxter to stand down from the
cab, and. as they were covered with
revolver i'll each hand of the masked
men. they readily complied. While this
| was occurring. four other men came
running up from the rear of the train
| toward the engine, all the time firing
their revolYers i'll the air, and shouting
at the top of their voices to the pas
Sengers, telling them to keep their
heads inside the cars or they would be
| hurt.
The five men then marched the en-
| glneer and fireman back to the express
| car, and one of the robbers pounded on
| the door and told the messenger to open
it. This was done. As soon as the mes
| senger showed his head he was covered
with revolverS, and told to stand back
away from the door. Then three of the
| robbers forced the engineer and fireman
i'll ahead oil them and entered the ear.
| On the inside of the car. besides the ex-
press messenger, was the baggageman.
He was ordered TO hold up his hands,
and, with the two men from the engine,
was stood against the wall with his
| hands above his head.
| A tall man with black mask over
| his face, wearing duck coat and dark
| pantaloonS, stood in the car with a re-
volver Ill each hand. He pointed his
| weapons first at one man, and then an
| other, and kept close watch on their
| movements. The engineer complained
that he was getting tired of holding up
his hands. aud the robber said:
well. take them down. then; but
don't make any KIND of move or there
will be trouble" and all the linen low
cred their hands at the same time. He
never took his eyes from them, and saw
that the men with their hands at their
sides made no attempt to
DRAW A WEAPON.
The other two robbers In the car were
busy with the packages in the safe. il
short mau, who was dressed in black or
brown clothes, took all the packages
from the safe, and dropped them into a
sack which he carried. The third man,
whose description could not be given by
4r.ey II.
two r2volverS strapped at his SIDE, and
carried shotgun in his hands.
When the safe had been emptied Of
Its contents the train-men were COM
PEELED to leave the car, and the robbers
followed them. 1Bey were marched
ahead of the bandits down half The
lengtlrot the train, and stood in a row
at the west side of the track, When
| the lOo!lng of the express car was going
on the remaining two robbers were on
the east side of the track, occasionally
hiring their revolyerS to prevent the
passengers from interfering with their
| work.
All of the occupants of the coaches
had been aroused 10y the shooting, and
began to hide their valuableS expecting
the coaches would De eutered, and some
! OF the people ,crawled down between
the seats and lay fiat or the floor. a
stray shot from pistol of one of the
robbers struck the car, tearing q hole in
! the side, but did not enter.
The postal clerks in the mail car had
heard the firing and barrieaded the
| doors, and then crawled under the mail
| sacks So as to be out of the way of any
STRAY BULLETS.
No attempt was made to enter the mail
| car, however.
When the trainmen had been stood
up in line about midway of the train
on the west side. the robbers called to
the men on the east side of the train.
and they climbed over the platform and
joined them. Then they walked away.
westward. going out of sight IN the
| willows, a few feet from the right OF
way.
The train backed down to the Francis
street depot, and did not go out again
for more than an hour The news of
The robbery spread rapidly over tile
city.
The sheriff and police were on the
spot in less than an hour after the rob-
berry occurred. If the robbers went
into the willows, as the direction thew
took indicated that they would, it will
be almost impossible for them to escape.
unless they cross the river This thew
will probably do.
From the description given of the
men in the express car, it is believed
that they were the Same ones who
robbed the Eli fast train on the Hanni-
bal and st. Joe, week ago last night.
The tall man, who seemed to be the
leader, suits the description of the tall
man who executed the robbery of the
Eli train. The short man who entered
tue car with him is OF the same de-
| nrtNN fiOr, el..<.
closely either time.
No estimate OF the amount secured
by the robbers can he obtained vet.
Express Messenger Baxter said early
this morning that he thought
THE AMOUNT WAS SMALL.