The Arizona sentinel., 1895-02-02
Arrival of the Blown HID EX-
 press Car and B'rafn.

Wednesday at l2:3Op. m. the passenger train due here at $50 a. m. came to a standstill in front of the depot. The express car presented a sorry appearance. Every light of glass was broken in the car. Holes were blown through the roof large enough for mans body to pass through. The irons on the windows and doors were bent into many shapes. The inside presented still worse appearance than the outside view. The floor was covered with debris Q foot deep. The door of the through safe had been blown in one corner of the car and it would be hard for one to imagine the torn condition the balance of the safe presented. Mexican dollars laid everywhere in the car. Several iron bucketsful stood in the middle of the car Twenty-Five or thirty sacks were still intact. On the sides, ceiling and floor of the car could be seen imbedded dollars, some nearly out of sight. Quite a number were on top of the car. A number of people here secured some of the dollars and prize them very highly as keepsakes. No one was hurt and only one shot fired. Four men were seen but it was the opinion of some witnesses that were more in hiding.
 A passenger told the following story dur ing the few minutes the train remained here:
 Just out of Wilcoxa man made the de- 1 mand of brakeman using siX-shooters as persuaders, that the train be cut in two back ef the baggage car. This was done and men on the engine compelled, engineer. ?. B. Zeigler, to run out four miles and stop. Meanwhile Express Manager Mitchell had noticed that all was not right, that the train was cut in two and he relized that a hold up was at hand. He accordingly bundled all his local money and valuables into pack age, dropped them from the car and follow ed them himself, securing the door after him. He went back, found his package, made Wilcox and gave the-alarm.
 The train was brought to a stop about four miles west of Wilcox. The plunderers then went to the express car door and tried to rouse the messenger. No messenger re sponded. All within was quiet. They then produced dynamite to bring out the messenger and open the car. They opened the car. This done they found the car ten antless and the safe locked. More dynamite was produced, more drilling was done Seven shots of the explosive were fired be fore the safe gave way.
 There was the money, the gold, twenties and the crisp greenbacks. These they pos sessed themselves of.
 Among the coin was 5000 ''dobe" dollars As Mexican money has little value in les than ton lots, and as the robbers had nc drays with them, they had no use for th' stuff, and so they made heap of it, put { stick of dynamite under it and touched i off. Only 700 of 5000 dollars have beer found. They went through telegraph poles cars, and flew everywhere.
 The whole job took an hour and quarter The Chiricahua mountains are not ia from the scene of the robbery, and it is no unlikely they made for them, The noun tains have many fastness, are impregnabl' in many places. As the robbery occurred between and o'clock they had till day light before pursuit could be made.
 An early captured is expected. Two O the men are said to have been recognized Both are Bisbee men, one of them by the name of Walter. They bought the dyna mite in Wilcox. It is said two of then held the horses, while the other two robbed the train.
 How much the robbers get away witt there is no telling. It may have been $l0O( 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 an( returned to the car. The robbers had beer gone twenty minutes.