Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-09
TRAIN 20 HELD UP. The Express Safe Opened With
 Dynamite.
The Passengers Not Molested-Tne Robbers Have a Grim JOke-Be-
 ieved to be Bis bee Men.

The danger of hanging the fact that
 man IS under sentence of death his end
 to come in but ten days hence, and that
 anoth man will be thirty years older
 before be sees freedom ega'n have no
 det- rring effect on trsin robbers.
 1 Last night train 20 west bound passen-
 ger, dus here about midnight, was held
 up and the express safe robbed. More
 damage tr. an the footing of the safe. the destruction ef ihe safe proper, and the
 blowing of s good piece Of the express | Car roof skyWard was not done. No
 one was hurt and n sbot was fired. | Four men dld the work. The affair is related thus: Just out of Willcox a man mtde the demand of braken an using
 SIX shooters as persuaders, that the train
 be cut in two back of the baggage car. This was done and men on the engine
 compelled, engineer, P B Zeigler, t. run
 out four hlles Hnd stop. Meanwhile FIX press Mes epger Mitchell had noticed 1 that all was not right. ihat the train was
 cut in two; and he realized that bold l up at hand. He accordingly buodiod 1 all his local money aud valuables into | packag~, dropped them from the :ar | and followed them himself, secur ng the l door after him. He weEt back, found his package, made Wilcox and gave the I alarm.
 Ire train was brought '. stop about four niles west of Wilcox. The plunderers then went to the express car door and tiied to rouse the messeug' r. No messenger responded. All within l was quiet. They there produced dyDa- | mite 10 bring cut the me senger a1d open the car. They opened the car. Y his done they fOurd the car tenantlsss ard the sare locked. More dynamite was ( o uc3d, nors diil ing was ne. Se,en shots of the explosive before the safe gave way.
 There was the money, the gold. twen- ties, end the crisp greenbacks. These trey possessed themselves of with joy and slacrity.
 MONEY TO BLOW AWAY. A grim joke WAS played by the rob- bers. Among the coin was 5000 "dobe" dollars. As Mexican money has little value less than ton lots, and as the robbers had no drays with them, they had no use for the stuff, and so they made heap of it. put stick of dvna- mite under 1t and touched it off Only 700 of 5000 dollars have been found. They went through telegraph poles, cars, and flew everyw here. The whole job took an hour and a gu rter.
 The ChIricahus mountains are no. far from the scene of the robbery, and it is not unlikely they made for them. The mountains have maIy fastness, and are impregnable in many placs. As the rob- bery occurred between s and g o'clock they had till daylight befora pursuit Could be made.
 IN HUT PURSUIT. At daylight this morning posse took the trail. It was headed down the Sul- phur Spring valley toward Mexico. The officers believing they knew the point he robbers were making for, took a short cut. An early capture is expected. Two Of the men are sad to have been recognized. Both are B's5ee men. one of them by the name of Walker. They bought the dynamite in Wilcox. It Is 8 id two of them held the horses, while the other two robbed the train. How much the robbers got away with there IS DO telling
 Tucson came in for shortage this morning of s1750. It may have been 1000 or many times that amount. That they got something is certain. The news of the robbery through the messenger got to Wilcox at 10 o'clock. He got out officers and force of men and returned to the car. The robbers had been gone twenty minutes. The train arrived in Tucson this mOrn- ing over three hours late. The express | car was not SO badly wrecked but that it could be taken to Los Angeles.