The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-13
PASSENGERS 7ERR0R|zE0.
But the Seven Bandits Merely
Chatted with Them, Offer
ing No Violence.
EXPRESS CAR ALONE R0BBEs.
Badly Shattered by Dynamite, Il
Rolls Into Jersey City Early
This Morning.

Train No. rs, north bound, which IN,
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 1t badly shattered express car.
No PA.
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 rifed by the robbers. 1t Is sup
posed that the bandits obtained between
$4,000 and 500, 0OO
When the express car, which IL one
belonging to the Atlantic Coast Di-
vision. was side-tracked, passengers,
passers-by and trainmen gathered
around to examine a spectacle unique
in the history Of railroading in New
| York City.
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 a.
they ploughed their way through the
| woodwork of the car were plainly vis-
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. witt
Washington and Phiiadeiphia, but =
few, completed the journey to New
York City.
Passenger shakIeford's Story.
,Trainmen were. as usual, reticent
about discussing the affair. But Col
j.. NJ Shakleford. a newspaper man,
time, gave a graphite n account q the the
manner in which the robbers secured
their plumber and made their escape.
or the NswarR @ j Journal an ana snitG =
now connected with the Times Enter
prise Of Thomasville. Ga. He told the
| following story
About seven or eight miles the other
side OF Quantico station, ! should say.
the train came to sudden standstiil.
Quantico station. you know, Is located
side. When the train stopped. the con-
ductor, NJ. A. Birdsong. was thus adj
| dressed by one Of the masked robbers,
| evidently the captain of the gang:
Throw up your hands. or well blow
your brains out
From the manner in which they ar
ranged the signals for stopping the
| 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.
even more evident, and the conductor
and the fireman lost no time In obeyinS
their instructions, and wisely. too,
guess.
masked men and l could plainly dis
tinguish them all in the cellar moonlight
OF the early morning, In fact, 80 near and
masks l am almost sure that could
| recognize some of them 4 i could see
them again, from certain little peculiar
alarmed passengers crowded out OF the
| cars to see what was the matter the
robbers fired a perfect .usilade OF shots
10 intimidate them as well as to frlghsen
| the railroad men.
Blew Open the Car with Dynamite.
THE robbers rined the express car
without loss of time. They prt their
sticks OF dynamite under the dooor OF
the express car and blew 1t open.
The engineer is man named Frank
4sss ana he was Brave an Ga s s%Ro S
railroad me 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 30
far as TO converse In a clever. daring
| fashion with The passengers and the
trainmen. This made us all the more
indignant, but we could do nothing to
help ourselves. Most of the passengers
| were cool and collected after the first
flush OF the excitement was over; ] re-
| member II struck me as being a htimor-
| Gus thing when we found out after an
examination of allour pockets, that we
had only one pistol to the entire crowd.
and that a little bit Of a one, AMI the
mischief of 1t was that II wouldn't work
| at all when the owner OF II tried 70 dis
charge II at the robbers as they disap-
peared in the darkness.
But that wasn't half so laughable a.
was the incident of one woman who had
| a little diamond-studded watch. She
| tried TO get her husband TO swallow II In
the excitement, but he declined TO- at
tempt the preservation of the watch In
| that fashion.
"fhe most novel thing in the entire
proceeding was the way In which the
| robbers made their escape. They cut the
engine loose, piled their plumber into the
cab, and then the whole crowd piled N