The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-14
|DYNAMITED EXPRESS CAR Bold HighWaymen Hold
 up a Train. THEY WERE A JOLLY SET Joked With Passengers as
 They Robbed Them. Engineer Lanham Stopped His Train When the Signal Was Given
 and Was Rewarded with
 Some Jewelry.
THEY WERE A JOLLY SET

Fort Worth. Tex, Aug. 13.-rne southbound Missouri, Kansas and Tex as train No. 3. due here at 6:30 a. rn.. was robbed at Caney Switch. Indian Territory. at l:0O o'clock this morning by i've masked men. The express car was blown open .the safe wrecked and the mail sacks rified. All the passen- gers were robbed of their money.
 Caney, the place where the robbery occurred. Is Q side track thirty nine miles north of Denison. It is in elae Choetaw Nation of the Indian Terrt- tory 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 en- aineer and fireman were confronted by two men with faces yelled with black netting.
 ' About the same time the express messenger and the mall clerk were com municated with through the closed doors of their car. Three of the roh-e bers shot wildly and then the call went to the messenger and clerk. "Opep 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 b the dr- ing. and the three men prepared a small stick of dynamite against the car door. In the meantime the shoot ing had awakened the passengers. The first intimation that came of the hold up sent the conductor, brakeman and porter back into the train and as they came and called out: Its hold-up," the passengers tried to hide their money and valuables. The dynamite blast was exploded. It was q small charge, and was intended more for fright than anything else.
 4 larger blast of dynamite was pre- pared and exploded. This did the work. It tore the side off the car. The rob- bers leaped through the opening and the frightened messenger had nothing to do but accept their orders. He was overpowered and narrowly escaped being torn to shreds, as his car was. He was ordered to open the safe, but could not, as the combination was at the end of the run.
 The robbers then put a charge of dynamite to the safe and blew 1t open. They demollshed the safe but got only $1 50, as the money had all been left at Muskogee 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 mail considered valuable by them was taken. Then, with Postal Clerk Pulley holding an empty mail sack, the rob- bers went through the coaches and robbed every passenger. They got $2S0 in one coach. A negro who refused to give up his money was severely beaten. The passengers were compelled 10 throw their valua bles into the pouch.
 After the work was done, the rob- bers, who seemed to enjoy the situa- matter and one even went back into a car to get something.
 After holding the train two hours, dense bottom timber for which Caney Creek is noted.
 The trainmen cut out the wrecked express car and ran down to Caney Sta- ton, and advised officers up and down the road. Within two hours bosses Of United States marshals, with wood hounds, were on the trail.
 The express company says that it lost nothing, and the conductor estimates the passengers loss at about $400, not counting the jewelry. The robbers gave the engineer LaLdham, a diamond ring and shirt stud.
 Both safes were demlished by the explosion, and the car is A wreck