Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-01
PURSUING TRAIN ROBBERS
No Clue To The Men Who Held
 Up Train

The Robbers Got Into a Storage Mail |
 Car Instead of the Express Car-Su- |
 perintendent of Road Offers $5O0 for l
 the Robbers-A Former Attempt l
 Was Made to Hold Up the Same
 Train.
 Chicago, III, Aug 1.-New York and Washington vestibule train on the Bal timore and Ohio railroad due to arrive in Chicago at 9 o'clock last night was held up by three masked men near age mail car, mistaken by the robbers for an express car. was blown open with dynamite. The men secured no plunder. They escaped after firing several shots from their revolyers to intimidate the passengers and train l crew.
 The attempt at robbery was made after the two mail cars had been de tached from the train and run a quar- ter of mile ahead. The failure of the robbers to make a rich haul was due to the fact that the express car, which contained the trains treasure, | was in an unusual place. It was the | third car in the train. The only loot the robbers carried away was the gold watch of the engineer. Most of the | trainmen were shot at and had mar | row escapes from the bullets.
 The scene of the hold-up is a lonely 1 district. The train was running at | high rate of speed as it passed Calu- met Heights and immediately after | passing out of sight of the station En- l giner J. ". Collins saw directly in | front of his engine large fire oA l which some rails had be placed. He l slowed down, and as he did so, three men wearing masks over their faces l jumped into the cab. and covered Col lins, and his fireman. James Whipple, with revolvers.
 l Chicago, Aug 1.-No clue has as yet been obtained of the men who held up the Baltimore and Ohio vestibule limit ed last night near Millers station, Ind Soon as the attempted robbers was re- ported to the railroad officials in Chi cago a special train was made and a 1 fast run was made to the scene of the hold-up. The train carried officials of | the road, special detectives and off cers of the Chicago police department
 Bioodhounds were secured from Long l Beach and these aided in the search xIlx l of the lake in boat in which they | escaped. Police patrolled the shore l from the vicinity of the hold-up to as far north as Evanston on the lookout for any craft in which the men might have escaped, and the lifesaying crews sent a boat out on the lake.
 A reward of $500 has been offered by l the superintendent of the road for any information that will lead to the ar rest of the bandits. J. W. Collins, en- gineer of the train that was held up, said:
 T thought I was being signalled to take on some picnickers. I knew there were picnic grounds along that stretch of woods some where As I slowed up two men swung up on the step of the cab. threw up my hands at their command. They took my watch and broke the chain in doing so.< One of the men was tall and rather stout ly built with sandy hair. 1she other
 was short and slight and darkhaired.
 Both wore pieces of black cloth over I their faces. The masks had eye holes
 cut in them. None of the features of the mems faces was exposed. In my experience with them, they handled me
 roughly by the arms several times. l They exhibited quite deal of strength I They had evidently been used to hard
 labor. When they took me ahead of
 the engine to where the rails lay across the track, they said to me: You
 see there was no escape. We would
 have stopped you anyway The rails
 were sections about ten feet long. 1
 threw them to the side of the track
 and cleared the way. After the cars
 had been dynamited and the robbers
 learned beyond doubt that they had
 made 8 mistake, they were evidently
 afraid to go back to the train for the
 express car. They then walked around
 to the other side of the cars and dis
 appeared"
 Last Saturday night an attempt was
 made to hold up the same train at a
 point S1 miles from Chicago A steel
 cable was stretched across the track The trainment removed the cable but
 the robbers for some reason did not
 appear Although little or no loss was
 occasioned to the mail the post office
 officials in Indiana and Illinois are hot
 on the trail of the robbers.
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