Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-22
Rock Island Express Gar Loot
ed Last Night.
DEATH OF GUNMAkER KRUPP
Numerous Exciting Football Games
in Progress In Eastern Cities.
NEW RAILROADS IN STATE OF ARKANSAS

officers of the United States Express
company state that the loss in the hold
up of the west bound passenger train
on the Rock Island system near Daven-
port at midnight last night will not ex-
ceed three or four thousand dollars.
On the other hand it is stated at the
local railroad offices here today that
the loss must have amounted to ten
or twenty thousand dollars, as the
train carried large quantity of jewel
ry and money for Omaha and Denver
The safe was a screw combination
with a time lock, one of the best the
tanned an unusually large quantity of
valuables.
Posses of policemen and citizens are
securing the woods this morning.
The highwaymen are believed to
have taken the plunder to some ISL
and in the Mississippi. where they bur-
led it, then crossed to the Illinois
shore, where they are hiding in the
woods.
The bandits boarded the train at
the glucose works west of Davenport
as passengers. They soon made their
purpose known, and after capturing
the engine crew detached the engine
and ran II to Rockingham, where they
looted the safe and made off.
1t has just been learned that the
men supposed to be the Rock Island
train ROBBERS stole team and wagon
| from Mr.. Rohmer, whose farm was
reached by mile tramp through very
heavy timber. The robbers drove north
west on run and near daylight passed
farm house four miles away from the
scene Of the robbery. The trail is be-
ing followed hard and hope is strong
that the men will be caught.
Particulars of the Robbery.
Chicago, Nov. 22.-General Manager
A. G. Goodnow, of the Rock Island
road, today gave out the following Of
fetal statement of the Davenport hold
ur:
"Our No. II. leaving Chicago at 6:05
p. m. yesterday for Fort Worth, Texas,
via Kansas City, was stopped about a
mile and half west of West Daven-
port by man displaying a red light.
Five men compelled the engineer and
fireman to cut off the mail and bag
| gage cars and run them one mile west.
The engineer and fireman were then
compelled at the point of revolvers to
| go to the express car and open the
door. The baggageman and express
man were taken from the cars to the
engine and three men left to guard
them and the engineer and fireman,
while two blew open the Chicago safe
of the United States Express company
IN the express car.
"All the contents of the safe were
taken. and the roof and side of the bag
gage car was badly damaged. The
men engaged in this robbery all wore
] masks, dark clothes and slouch hats
and kept in the dark as much as possi-
BILE, so from that cause and owing TO
the excitement our employees are un-
| able TO give any description of the
men except that one was very tall,
raw boned man, possibly six feet tall,
and the others medium sized men.
rather heavy, and one was a short
heavy man.
'The police at Davenport and Rock
Island were promptly notified and
were quicqly on the ground. The sup
position is hat the robbers left the
| road and went to the north, cutting
| through a corn field. The sheriff at
Rock Island, with blood hounds, was
promptly on the scene and every effort
is being made to trace the robbers.
THE robbery occurred just outside
the city limits of Davenport and is the
boldest affair that has ever taken
place on this company's lines. No one
was injured"
At the Office Of the United States
Express company it is said that the
loss to the company will not exceed
81 900.
Heavy Loss.
Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 22.-The
United States Express company offic-
ials here have, it is asserted, been for
nally appraised that the loss in the
Davenport hold up of the Rock Island
approximates $4,000. Davenport Of
ficers of the company. however, insist
there was but $500 in the safe when it
was dynamited.