San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-16
THE TRAIN ROBBERY.
RETURN OF THE TRAIN THAT WAS
HELD UP.
Some Interesting Facts Connected With
the Recent Southern Pacific
Robbery Near Lozier.

What was left of the baggage car
that was blown up in the Southern Pa
cific train robbery at Lozier early FRI
day morning arrived in San Antonio
on passenger train No. 10 yesterday
afternoon at o'clock. The cars also
were the ones that were in the rob-
berry and when the train arrived hun
dreds of people flocked around it as
If 1t wasthe -lOoked-for airship.
The baggage car was a sight to be-
hold, and appeared as if it had gone
through well developed cyclone. The
roof over the center of the car was
completely torn up, and the large iron
safe, known as the through safe"
was badly demolished. The heavy
door was off and lying a few feet from
the safe and the top of the safe was
blown open by the heavy charge of dy-
Mantle which was used in opening the
safe. The small safe, known as the
local safe" was also demolished. The
robbers placed this safe on the large
one, so as to give more force to the
charge. Four charges were made in
opening the through safe" The 10
cal safe" had been opened by Messen-
ger Joyce, but it is said that nothing
was in it. How much was in the large
safe no one seems able or willing to
tell but it is believed that there were
nearly $4,000 in it, and the robbers
must have gotten all of that, for they
per behind them. 1t is, however, a
wonder that anything was left in the
care after such heavy charges.
be sent to Houston for repairs. There
is bullet mark on the east side of the
car and passenger coach No. 236 also
has bullet mark, which was made by
the robbers Winchesters.
There were three robbers, two being
masked and one wearing a gray beard.
They were well armed with WinChes-
tiers. They boarded the train just as
it was about to slow up at Lozier. They
sprang to the engine from behind the
depot at Lozier and ordered the en-
gineer, George Fries, to go ahead
with the train, instead of stopping as
usual. The conductor of the train.
Jim Burns, and the brakeman, Allie
Stevens, suspected at once that the
men were robbers, but did not leave
the train. After the train had reach
ed about a mile and a half west of
Lozier the robbers gave orders to stop
the train, and proceeded to work. 1t
took them about an hour and half
to accomplish their purpose, after
which they levelled their Winchesters
on the engineer and ordered him to
back up towards Lozier, out of their
reach, without any delay. The or
ders were promptly obeyed and the
robbers took what they wanted and
None of the passengers
were molested and the mail was left
That the robbers knew their business
is made clear by the deliberate manner
in which they went about the work.
They never appeared to be in hurry.
The scene of the robbery is noun
famous and uninhabited. A large
bluff, about so feet high, stands along
one side of the track
The operator at Lozier is Miss Ad-
die Epson, of San Antonio. Imme-
diately upon learning that robbers had
boarded the train she was about to
telegraph the information to the FL
Paso operator, but just at that time
the wires were cut and she worked on
the San Antonio end.