The age-herald., 1901-08-14
ROBBERS HOLD . UP TRAIN AND
 ROB PASSENGERS Blew Open Express Gar and
 Found O---Opened
 Mail Pouches ENJOYED HE SITUATION One of the Robbers Left Something In the Car and Came Back After If. Several Men Have Been Arrested.
ENJOYED THE SITUATION

southbound Missouri Kansas and Texas train No. 8, due here at 6:3O a. m., was robbed at Caney Switch, I. T.. at 1:05 o'clock this morning by five masked men. the express car wa sblown open the safe wrecked and the mail sacks rified All the passengers were robbed of their money.
 Clancy. the place where the robbery oc- cured, is a side track thirty-nine miles north of Denison. It Is in the Choctaw nation of the Indian Territory, and the population surrounding the station is only 125. The train does not stop at Caney except on signal, and the proper signal was given. The engineer and fire man were confronted by two men with faces yelled with black netting. About the same time the express messenger and the mail clerk were communicated with through the closed doors of their car. Three of the robbers shot wildly and then the call went to the messenger and clerk: "Open up here, open up and don't be too slow about it."
 From within came no response. The two men could not be seen. When there was no reply from within the robbers again called out: "Open the door or we will blow it open and blow you to hell"
 There was no response to the second call and the firing again began and fully twenty shots were discharged. Still there was no response to the firing, and the three men placed a small stick of dyna- mite against the car door. In the mean time the shooting had awakened the pas sengers. The first intimatior thaf->a2me from the hold up sent the conduct6E. brakeman and porter back into the train and as they came and called out Its a hold up." the passengers tried to hide their money and valuables. The dyna- mite blast was exploded. It was small charge and was intended more for fright than anything else
 Dynamite Did the Work.
 A larger blast of dynamite was pre- pared and exploded. This did the work. It tore the side off the car. The robbers leaped through the opening and the frightened messenger had nothing to do but accept their orders. He was over powered and narrowly escaped being torn in shreds as was his car He was ordered to open the safe, but could not do so. as the combination was at the end of the run.
 The robbers then put a charge of dyna- mite to the safe and blew it open. They demolished the safe, but got only s150, as the money had all been left at Mus kogee to be picked up by the Katy Flyer which runs through the territory by day.
 The messenger and clerk were forced to assist the bandits in their work Every mail pouch was emptied and the mall considered valuable by them was taken. Then with Postal Clerk Fully holding an empty mall sack the robbers went through the coaches and robbed every passenger. They got s2s0 in one coach. A negro who refused to give up his money was severely beaten. The passengers were compelled to throw their valuables into the pouch.
 Superintendent Sam Gaines of the rail- way mail service says he does not be- lieve the robbers got much money out of the mail pouches
 After the work was done the robbers who seemed to enjoy the situation sat around and laughed over the matter. and one even went back into car to get something.
 Aften holding the train two hours the robbers left going east into the dense bottom timber for which Caney creek is noted.
 The tTaInnen cut out tue WfeChea tx- press car and ran down to Caney Station and advised officers up and down the road. Within two hours posses of United States marshals with fbloodhounds were on the trail.
 The express company says that it lost nothing and the conductor estimates the passengers loss at about $400, not count ing the jewelry. The robbers gave the engineer, Lanhan, a diamond ring and shirt stud.
 Both safes were demolished by the ex- plosion and the car is a wreck.