The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-21
HELD UPA TRAIN.
Robbers Laughed and Talked as They
Robbed a Train.

Robbed a Train.
A train was held up AID robbed neal
Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday night.
The express car was blown open, the
safe wrecked and the mail sacks rifed.
All the passengers were robbed Of their
money. El Caney, where the robbery
occurred, is a side track thirty-nine
miles north Of Denison. It is in the
CloctaW nation Of the Indisn Terri
tory and she population surrounding
the station is only 125. The train
does not stop at Caney except on signal.
As the the proper signal was given the
engineer Rhistled his reply, and the
train slowed down for the stop. In.
stead Of the hurried signal to go ahead,
the engineer and fireman we're con-
fronted By two men with masked faces.
About the same tina the express mes,
senger snd the mail clerk were COM
municated with through the closed
doors Of their cara. Three OF the rob.
bers shot wildly and then the call vent
to the messenger and clerk:
"Open up here! Open up and don't
be too slow about it!'
From within came no response and
the robbers again called out: "Ope1
the door or ne will blow it open and
blow you to Eell!" There was no ra.
spouse to the second csll and the firing
again began, fully twenty shots being
discharged. Still there WAS no re.
sponse, and the tErse men prepared a
small blast Of dynamite against the Cal
door. In the meantime the shoot
ing had awakened the passengers. The
conductor, brskemen and porter ran
through the train, and ss they called
out: 'lt's hold.up!'
The passengers tried to hide their
money and 7aluables. The dynamite
was st last exploded. It Was small
charge I'D was intended more for fright
than anything else. A larger blast Of
dynamite was prepared and exploded.
This tore the side of the express and
mail car I'D the robbers lesped through
the opening, and, oVerpoWered the mes
senger. He was ordered to open the
safe, but he could not, as the combina-
tion was at end Of the run. The rob-
bers then put 8 charge Of dynamite to
the safe and ble8 it open. They de-
molished the safe, but secured only
$1.50, as the money had all been left at
Muskogee to be picked up By the ''Katy
ayer," which ruus 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 the
robbers was taken, Then with Postal
Clerk Tulley holding an empty mail
sack, the robbers went throush b the
coaches and robbed every passenger.
They secured $3.50 in one coach. A
negro 10 refused to give up hiS money
was severely beaten. The passengers
were compelled to throw their valuable
into tho pouch.
After the work was done the robbers,
who seemed to rejoice in the situation,
sat around and laughed over the matter.
After holding the train two hours, the
robbers left, going east into the dense
bottom timber, for which tortuous
Caney creek is Io:ed. The trsinmen
cut out the wrecked express car, ran
down to Caney station and advised Off
GERS up and down the road. In two
hours posse Of United States marshals
With blood hounds were on the trail.
Tne express company said it lost moth
ing, and the counductor estimates the
passengers loss at about s4OO, not
counting the jaWelry.
THE ROBBERS CAUGHT.
A dispatch from Denison, Tex says:
J. B. D7ais, deputy marshal at Colbert,
l. T., arrived mere "Wednesday night
from the scene Of the robbery st Caney.
The following men have been ar
rested on the charge OF committing the
robbery" said Mr. Davis: &C. Z.
Richmond, Bob Afford, Geo. Brown,
John Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack
Barr, These men were arrested st
Caney and taken to Atoka Thursday
morning. The operator at Caney,
when he heard the shooting, suspected
the train was being held up and put out
the light in the depot and telegraphed
Atoka, II piles away, for officers.
Within two hours after the robbery
blood hounds had trailsd these men to
their homes. We found the wet cloth
ing identified by passengers as that
worn by the robbers. We also found
three masks and found in the fire boz
Of the cook stove when the arrests were
made the shoes of the men arrested.
The tracks we're measured and fitted the
shoes exactly"