Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-10-09
BANDITS HOLD Up TRAIN
ROB The PASSENGERS
Indian Territory Robbers Stop 0
Southeastern Passenger
and Win Valuables.
THE SAFE TOO MUCH FOR THEM
They Used Dynamite But tho Safe
WitllstOod the ShocE---Big
Posses Arc In Hot
Pursuit.

FL Reno. o. T., oct. A-BGndits robbed
the south bound passenger train and all
It's passengers at il o'clock yesterday
forenoon at siding 40. ]. about Ave
miles south Of Minco. in the Indian Ter
ritoIy. The railroad ana express OIL
Gals have feared a hoidup la that SEC
ton for several weeks and armed
guards have been put aboard all night
trains at III Reno ana carried through
10 CniCkIsaW. Ii had not been thought
the outlaws were bold enough 10 at
tack a train in midday. Yesterday
morning the triinmen We're completely
surprised and they were not prepared
TO offer any resistance when five masked
men came upon them at ms lonely sid
ing. Tha place f. ~uninhabited, the only
persons in the vicinity AT the time being
four section men. These section men
tagged the train. the robbers having
| compelled them II do so. The bandits
were hidden at the time in q brush pile
ana they jumped out as soon as the
passenger train had taken tho siding.
Under the pressure OF WinchcGters n
ugly looking six shooters the trainm2n.
express messenger and ali OF the score
or more Of passengers wore made %
climb down from the train and stand in
line, hands UP. on the prairie along the
railway. Whit three Of the robbers
covered the badly frightened crowd
with their guns the other two coolIy
and carefully robbed them. passing
from one passenger TO another down
tn" line. The bandits secured about
5000 In cash and such other ydlu bies In
/ Tho NO., L. tf w. fab41 r.#r..G 4p1 fat,.lpg~
as were IN sight.
The passengers and traiumcn having
been thoroughly plucked, three Of the
bandits turned their attention to the
express and mail coaches, the others
standing guard Jyar the helpless crowd
on the prairie. The registered mail
pouches we've quickly riiled, hat the
through safe iu The express car resisted
all tha fore" amt ingenuity Of the road
agents. When the messengers had con-
WINGED thf bandits mat they could not
open the strong box thcy fasorJrd to
dynamite. Several ]. avy char~cs We're
exploded. hut the safe proved bandit
proof and, though II was badly bat
tered. its contents were saved To the ex-
press company.
Having taken rorcih'a possession OF
every tNlIE talt IhcN t'uHl carry away,
the bandits mounted their horses and
rode of toward tho west.
As soon as the trainman could collect
thoir wits they git IN" scared plssen-
gers aboard end hurried on 10 the next
station south, from which point the rail
road officials were notified of the hold
UP. At C~nickasaw 4 posse ~ citizens
was hurricdly formed and set ont In
pursuit OF the gang, and officers have
been dispatched from Fl Reno and othor
points in this section. 1t is hardly pos
sible that the bandits can be overtaken
I'm the prairie country ana they viii
probably be able 10 reach the wichita
mountains to the west Of the scene Of
the holdup. officers here believe the
gang {, b. the same ono that held Up
""'Tne rev women p-asrcn~~r~ w~r~ NO
compelled TO give up their valuahI"s and
Rev. MIR. Roe. one # the passengers,
who was sick. was not compelled to
leave the coach.
Jim Wright q MircC showed a dis
pnsition 10 resist when the bandits or
dcred hands up. They shot one of hl'
ears of TO prove 20 his satisfaction
that his bravery was i'll advised.
Wright's hands then went M. No one
else was injured.