Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-04
An EXPRESS RO||A)P
Six : sked Men Hold Up snd
ID . Cotton Belt Ex.
press Train.
II : aie Blown Up and Contsnts.
: mounting to Tto1sands
Of Dollars. Taken.
Engine Taken and Handled Ii
Manner Showing They
We're Railroaders.

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st. Louis, Sept. 4.-From meager in-
formation received at the offices Of Vice
President and General Manager Brltton,
OF the st. Louis & Southwestern road.
six instead of five men held up the pas
senger train last night near Eylau Sta
ton. After blowing up the safe in the
express car with dynamite the robbers
secured two sacks of loot This they
transferred to the engine, which had
been detached from the other cars. En-
gineer HENDERSON was compelled to put
cut the headlight by the robbers, who
put him off and took charge Of the en-
gine. The engine was driven south at
full speed, followed by Engineer Hen
derson on hand car, which he secured
from nearby switch house. Early
this morning he came up with his de-s
serted engine, about four miles from the
scene of the robbery. The robbers who,
the engineer belived, from their actions.
were all railroaders, had escaped into
the dense woods surrounding the track
ct this point. Henderson could not give
. very accurate description of the men,
but said they all wore masks. The en-
gineer ran back and picked up the mail
and express and going to the remainder
of the train coupled on and continued
south. Neither passengers nor m&ii
cars were molested. At 2 a. m. posse
of horsemen under Sheriff Boyd> of the
county, left Texarkane to scour the
woods. They We're soon followed by an
other posse on an engine. The blood
hounds kept at the penitentiary at
Rusk. Tex, for tracking escaped con-
victs are being hus to the scene OF
the robbery on a s.; train. S.
LIE First Reports.
Texarkana. Ark, Sept. 4.=No. /, the
Cotton Belt passenger train leaving
here at 9:25 p. M, in charge of Conduc-
tor Armstrong and Engineer Henderson
was held up and robbed near Eylau,
four miles south ofhere, last night.
The train was tagged by one of the
robbers, who forced the fireman to 70
back and cut off the mail and baggage
cars and then returning forced the
engineer to give up his engine.
One of the robbers, who is an expert
engineer ran the engine, mail and ex-
press cars about a mile from the point
where the first stop was made and
forced the express messenger to open
his car.
The robbers blew open the safe with
dynamite, securing, 1t is said, very
large amount of booty. The exact
amount is withheld by the railroad and
express people. but it is known that
very large shipment was made Nst
night on this train.
The robbers after securing the booty
cut off the engine from the mail and
express cars and forcing the engineer
Henderson to get OFF. took the engine
in charge of the robber engineer and
went south at full speed. AT 1870
O'Clock this morning the engine had not
been found.
No passengers were molested. They
We're. however, badly frightened, and
hid their valuables.
The robbers evidently were in possess
sion of all the facts concerning this par
ticular shipment of money, together
With a schedule of the train. as their
scheme was successful in every re-
spect.
Suspicious characters We're seen on
board the head end of the train, leay-
ing Texarkana. The railroad employees
here seem to be confident the robbery
was committed by railroad men from
the manner in which they superintend-
ed the cutting off of the cars and the
handling of the engine.
The spot selected for the robbery was
we'll adapted for this kind of work as
it is very wild and heavily timbered
The conductor and several passengers
walked back to Texarkana.
AT this hour the passenger train
stands in two pieces with the engines
whereabouts unknown.
There were five men in the gang