The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-15
RUN DOWN BY HOUNDS
Train Thugs Come to Grief Very
Suddenly After Their
Criminal Exploit.
THEY HAD THEIR LAUGH FIRST
Law Will Now Have It's Laugh If
Things Go Right-StOry of
the Crime.

Fort WolM Eek, Aug. 1.-THE
south-bound Missouri Kansas and
Texas train No. 8, due here at $3.50 "a
m. yesterday, was robbed at Caney
Switch, l. T., at 100 a. M. yesterday
by five masked men. The express car
was blown open, the safe wrecked ana
the mail sacks rifeu. All the pas
sengers We're robbed of their money.
Caney, the place where the train rob
berry occurred is a sidetrack thirty
nine miles north of DenisOn. 1t is in
the Choctaw nation of the Indian Ter
ritory, and the population surrounding
the station is only 125. The train does
not stop at Caney except on signal, ana
the proper signal was given. The en-
gineer whistled his reply to the signal
and the train slowed down for the
stop.
Mail Car Summoned to Open Up.
Instead Of the usual hurried signal to
20 ahead after the stop the engineer
and fremen were confronted by two
| men with faces yelled with black net
| ting. About Inc same time the eX-
press messenger and the mail clerk
| were communicated with through the
| closed doors of their car. Three Of the
robbers shot wildly, and then the cali
| 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. They awaited only the result,
When there was no reply from within
| tho robbers again called out: open
the door, or we will blow it open and
blow you to HI"
Dynamite Brought Into Action.
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 fr-
ing, and the three men prepared
small blast of dynamite against the car
door. In the meantime the shooting
had awakened the passengers. The
first intimation that came OF the mod
ND" sent the conductor, brakemen anG
porter back into the train, and as they
came in and called out: Its hold
up" the passengers tried to. hide tkee1t
money and valuables. The dynamite
blast was exploded. 1t was a small
charge and was intended more fol-
| fright than anything else, e.,,7--qrss
OPENED UP WITH TEE EXPLOSIVE
Everything Taken That Looked Valuable
and the Passengers Robbed.
A larger blast Of dynamite was pre-
pared and exploded. This did the
work 1t tore the side off the car. The
robbers leaped through the opening,
and the frightened messenger had moth
ing to do but accept their orders He
was overpowered and narrowly es-
capped being torn into shreds. as was
his car. He was ordered to open the
safe, but he could not as the COM
bination was at the end Of the run.
The robbers then put charge Of dyna-
mite to the safe and blew it open.
They demolished the safe, but got only
S1.5O, 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 all
mail considered valuable was taken.
Then with Postal Clerk Tulley holding
Ian empty mail sack the robbers went
through the coaches and robbed every
passenger. They got $3.50 in one coach.
A negro who refused to give up his
money was severely beaten. The pas
sengers were compelled to throw their
valuables into the pouch. Superintend-
ent Sam Gaines of the railway mail
service, says he does not believe the
robbers got much money out of tue
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 tC
Get something. After holding the train
hours the robbers left, going east
D the dense bottom timber for which
e tOrtuous Caney creek is noted. The
trainmen cut out the wrecked express
car and ran down to Caney station and
advised officers up and down the road.
Within two hours posses of United
States marshals, with bloOdhOunds,
were on the trail. The express COM
lpany says that it lost nothing. and the
conductor estimates the passengers
Elosses at about $500, not counting the
iewelry The robbers gave the engi-
neer Lanham. diamond ring and a
shirt stud. Both safes were demol-
Eished by the explosion, and the mail
car is a wreck.
tTHEY HAVE THE TRAIN ROBBERS
rrailed By BIoodhounds to Their Homes