The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-10-19
GOT ROUND SUM
| Admitted That the DeKalb Train
Robbers Secured About
$4,000.
Waterman and Trainmen Bound,
Gagged and Tied to Ex-
press Car,
Thus Preventing an Immediate
Alarm---Pursuit Now in
Progress.

CHICAGO, Oct. l6.-It is estimated
that the robbers who held up train No.
3 on the Northwestern railroad near
De Kalb, Ills, secured over $25, 1000.
This amount was stated by General
Manager Antisdale of the American
Express company to have been in the
car in cash alone. The amount of jew
elry, etc., secured by the robbers, Mr..
Antisdale said, he could not guess at.
When the special train bearing Gen.
eral Superintendent Sanborn and
Trainmaster Battisford reached the
scene of the robbery they found that
not only hadthe operator of Tower w"
been bound and gagged, but the con-
ductor, engineer and fireman Of the
train had been tied securely to
the express car, the robbers thus
preventing immediate pursuit. The
trainmen were only able to give
the railroad officials the direction
the robbers had taken in making their
escape. Shortly after the officials ar.
rived, another special train bearing
General Manager Antisdale of the
American Express company, w. A.
Pinkerton and number of detectives,
arrived, and organized pursuit was at
once begun. A good description of the
robbers was obtained from Operator
Whistler of tower "W." Blood was
streaming from his face where the rob-
bers had struck him. He was almost
dead from suffocation, as the towel had
been thrust down his throat. Three
suspects were arrested at day break and
taken to the South Elmhurst police
station. The men were caught in a
freight car, but the police were not at
all confident that they had the right
men.
The Northwestern Railway and
American Express company together
have offered reward of $25, 900 for in
formation leading to the arrest and
conviction of the Maple Park train rob-
bers. A proportionate amount will be
paid for the arrest and conviction of
each of the robbers.
The robbery was evidently carefully
planned. Twenty minutes before the
train was due at Maple Park the robbers
Burst Into the stationhouse
and, placing revolvers at the head of
the station agent, compelled him to re-
main quiet while they bound him.
After tying him fast to chair they
forced gag into his mouth and left
him utterly helpless. The signals were
then changed so that the train would
be compelled to stop before reaching
the depot. The robbers went down the
track to the point where the train
would stop and waited for it. As soon
as it came to halt two of the men COW
cred the engineer and fireman with re-
volvers and, after uncoupling the en-
CINE, compelled the engineer to run it
down the track two miles. They then
blew up the express car with dynamite,
practically demolishing it and blocking
the track. They then blew open the
safe and rifed it. 1t is not known how
much money was secured. Immedi-
ately after
Grabbing What They Could
from the safe the robbers fled into the
darkness. They ara now being pursued
but the robbers have quite lead over
the posse that is after them.
Engineer Daniel White Of the train
was shot in the breast and it is reported
very seriously wounded because he re-
fused to run his engine from the train.
After shooting him one Of the robbers
ran the engine down the track two
miles to a switch where it was "killed.
It also reported that the station agent
was badly pounded up and was left un-
conscious on the depot floor when the
robbers went out to stop the train. 1t
is not thought his injuries are fatal but
it was two hours after being assaulted
before he recovered consciousness.