Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-28
The CONDUCTORS STORY.
What Pete German, of the Held Up
Train, Says.


Chattanooga, March 27.--Conductor
Pete German. of Cincinnati Southern
train No. 3, which was held up near
Somerset, Ky, this morning. says
I'VE were sixteen miles south OF SOM
erset, and had Gene through tunnel
No. .. l was IN the rear sleeper, check
ing up, when the train came TO stop
| got on on the ground with the nag.
man. 1 saw the blaze of nihol, and
then another one. ! told the nagman
he had better climb back ON the tram,
MS the shooting was going lengthWise
Of the train, and he might get shot
and / did the same. ! then went lorT
ward and found out that train robbers
had boarded US. There were hve OF
thc rnbbcrs. one watched the engin-
Ger. three entered the baggage car
and one remained on the ground on int
loft hand side Of the train As soon
as the train had stopped Detective All
good went out or the car, ana as ne
stepped on the platform the roDber or
the robbers on the ground yelled
Throw up your hands, or J VIII shoot
vou' Instead of doing TINS Alig1ol
drew his pistol and began to shoot. me
cthnr rnbhers then ran out, and Griffin
/ ana Eddy Joined Allgond In the tusllaue'
! They killed one man. Another was
/ badly wounded and died at I O'Clock
| this morning, The third we left at
| Cumberland Falls. 1t was all done SO
| auickly that there does not seem muen
10 tell. In ten minutes we We're GONG
on. 4 wrecklng train Followed cIpA'
behind us. as the second section oil oul
train. and we left the three detectives
and their prisoner to be taken on It,
"The day coaches were fairly wei
allied The passengers Were somewha
alarmed. but as the train soon moVe'
on they were reassured.
"Not one of the railroad employees o
nv Messengers were hurt nor as iAr ~
[ know did a bullet enter any OF th
coaches. The shooting was done ain,ll
side the train and not crosswlSe, LIZ
rnhbers were well armed with pls
,ois ana corbines. We found one car
hinc they had dropped. The robber
evidently thought they entered the eN
mess car when they entered the DAG
~ don't know who the robbers were
hut they are supposed 10 be partle
i,vinr In that section near where IN
, robbery was committed a,
Superintendent Campbell OF u'
southern Express company says theI
was only $40 or $50 In money III VI
4 safe. -, ,,,.sor,,ar n
- -
: ,l,o troin seized his carbine when IN
shooting began and kept the door
y ,it,btIy locked. He knows nothlh
!, about the robbery. u,
Q PA" Pessengers in seepers for New Oh
,oans and Jacksonville We're "
: nn,nirened. In one OF the day coacht
. when fine train stopped and the shoo
: M, hogan one man with big moul
y ma loud voice yelled by Co.. "
n are held up" 49,, or,,Ir
3, w o, ,,crybody began throwing. none
and iewelry under Tue se"'
: nnt sleep any more. ,....,,,.o yr
NO sum =. Allgood, the detecuve, W.
.ooi, such a prominent part III ~. -
\ tu oN az the robbery. returned - "
( Veh'' ,,,ts evening on train No l, irol
Z cry 100. ~ The scene OF the ropper!
Z IA moi have a scratch on nun ~
X - ~ were no indications that ~ WI
II . w nrIncipai participant IN NE 1tIou :
Y hattie which took pace az '"S
I me train this mornlhs' 49,, clrcInna
tn w, an employed by the Slhei'ii ii.'t
an raiiroad as detective sa
Soulnu' .onorter tonight, land Tuesuh
ne 10 received n telegram ~
b moIn ,.int endent Griggs to report ;,
4 sppein, The Superintendent uIu "
soheIs aoyyn to Chattanooga on
II 10 eVnT n,sbt He did not ten me ~ a;
y that tls about what was 10 ma
I thins ~ suspected somethihs W.
y pvn having had reason U al
L wrohs, was going into danse, ~
Z tnous red with double oarre'''u "
L gun. a.. chief detective OF =
Z grimm VIM Eddy, another ae, ,',o n
road ~" very fearless oinceI, .S srana n
VINO y ..a,n also. They were parr,.sil
on lns III as myself with dounis s,.s,h No
as wen which were loaneI VIZ s,,t,ne
snots' Bidy and myself wvTs vas :
shot' ~ seat, while Gtilll" ,,hat u,
tne q in the express car TO- not kno
ore.eII cannot tell. as ~ o,,th al /
b Iose nassed out o. the ,,.,,neer bl,
~ w NJ. ! heard me en ss sigr
tun', .t,istle twice, when w, W" and "
ms ha had been Jagged ~" ana mys
tn"s ton the train. huus The smoi
u,aiked out OF the u0o'
together aou,n ON the last s'sg
,ha smoking car on w, NJ nther side, a
~ cot on the step O in when the tn
r,e we're in this posi''
stopped nassed by EDDY Nv "
sod NJ the time slu and went TO
,he End Of the Gar, T. them had 81
haggage car, vns and looked down !,
,n In his hands ln 10 tile car. 7
L EDDY, but passeu, ~ 70 the car WI.
three men wens az from four ~
they remnlnsa "A one Of them s"s -,
minutes. hesu, Hands uN' ana ri n,
bIg man, tniln',.oney In the eAr a.,
thing about uhnl,t IN the oali Re.