The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-19

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Daring Acts Yet Performed by Out!
laws Almost Within the Limits Of
the City. 81 s.:
ST.. JosEPH, Mo-, Jan. 1s.-This city
has been the scene of another train rob-
Dery. Five masked men held up the
strain OF the Kansas City, St. Joseph &
Gouncil Bluffs road at an early hour
This morning. The entire contents of
1.-The safe in the express car were secured
by the robbers. No one was injured
The robbers could not allbe described,
But are supposed to be the same gang
hat held up and robbed the Chicago
last train, the "Eli," on the Hannibal
Jnst week ago tonight. Two Of the
men answer tho description of two of
3 The "Eli' robbers. The scene OF the
robbery this morning is what is known
sas Roy's Branch, two miles north OF
This city and is the same place where
aEhe attempt was made to hold up
train on September 25 last, when two
inen were killed and for which crime
another was sent to the penitentiary.
vi The train left the Francis street depot
Eat 1890 o'clock in charge of Conductor
William Haywood and Engineer w.
Davis. When the train reached Roy's
Branch a torpedo exploded under the
wheels of the engine and a red lantern
Eas swung across the track. The engin-
Ser put on the air brakes and the train
;sslow up, coming to q standstill at al
most exactly the same spot on which
the dunn my train stood on the night OF
Va September %.
~ HELD UP.
81 The train ran past the place where
the robbers intended it should stop, and
s the men were left behind the engine.
Shortly after the stop had been made,
y however, man came running out OF
Il the brush alongside the track, and COW
erins the engineer and fireman with Il
revolver, shouted, "Throw up your
hands"
4 Then he ordered Engineer Davis and
) Fireman Baxter to stand down from
the cab, and as they were covered with
a revolver in each hand of the masked
man, they readily complied. While this
was occurring four other men came
running mp from the rear OF the train
towards the engine, all the time firing
their revolvers in the air and shouting
ut the top OF their voices to the passen-
gers, telling them to keep their heads
inside the cars or they would be hurt.
Tho five men then marched the en-
eineer and fireman back to the express
car, and one of the robbers pounded on
the door of the express car and told
the messenger to open it. This was
done. AS soon as the messenger showed
his head he was covered with revolvers
and told TO stand back away from the
door, Them three of the robbers forced
the engineer and fireman in ahead OF
them and entered the car. On the in
side OF the car was the baggageman. Flo
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 tail man with a
black mask over mis- face, wearing a
duck coat and dark pantaloons, stood
in the car with revolver in EACH hand.
He pointed his weapons first at one
man and then another and kept close
watch on their movements.
VERY KIND oFHIM.
The engineer com planned that he was
getting tired of holding up his hands
and the robber said "Well, take them
down then, but don't make any kind of
move or there will be trouble" and
all the men lowered their hands atthe
same time. He never took his eyes
from them and saw that the mon with
their hands at their sides made no at
tempt to draw, a weapon. The other
two robbers in the car were busy with
the packages in the safe. a short man
who was dressed in black or brown
clothes took all the packages from the
safe and dropped them into sack
which he carried. The third man,
whose description could not be given
by the train men, was we'll armed. He
had two revolvers strapped at his side
and carried shot gun in his hands.
When the safe had been elnptied of
its contents the trai1lmen were COM
PEELED to leave the car and the robbers
followed them. They were marched
ahead down half the length of the train
and stood in a row on the west side of
the track When the looting OF the
express car was going on me remaining
3 two robbers were on the east side of the
track occasionally firing their reyolvers
to prevent the passengers from inter
fering with their work.
All of the occupants of the coaches
had been aroused by the shooting aud
began to hide their yaluables, expect
s ing the coaches would be entered and
some OF the people crawled down be-
) tween the seats and lay fiat on the floor.
a stray shot from pistol OF one OF the
robbers struck the car, tearing hole in
the side but did not enter.
The postal clerks in the mail car had
heard the firing and barricaded the
doors and then crawled under the mail
Il sacks go as to be out OF the way of any
3 stray bullets. No attempt was made to
. enter the mail car, however.
THE ESCAPE.
When the trainmen had been stood
Z upzin line about midway OF the train
e on the west side the robbers called to
IS. the men on the east side of the train
Z and they climbed over the platform and
Joined them. Then they walked away
westward going out of sight in the will
+ lows few yards from the right of way
The train backed down to the Francis
9 street.depot and didtnots go out again
for more thanSan hour. The news of the
. robbery spread RAPIDLY. over the city.