The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-09-21
HELD UP BY BANDITS
Make a Successful Raid Near An Iowa
Town.
PASSENGERS WERE NOT MOLESTED.
Railroad Officials Claim the Robbers Did Not
Secure Any Money, Though the Safe Was
Blown Up and the Contents Taken-Reb.
berry Appears to Be the Work Of Experienced
Railroad Men.

Des Moines, Iowa (SpeciaD Five
bandits perpetrated successful hold
up OF a passenger train on the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-
way near Let's, Iowa. The state
ments of expressmen are that the rob-
bers secured no money, though the
safe was blown open and the contents
taken. The officers assert that the
safe contained merchandise of some
value, company papers in transit, etc,
but no money.
Three special trains, on one OF
which are posses of railroad and ex-
press employees and a number of Off
GERS. were rushed to the scene Of the
robbery immediatly upon receipt of
the news, the trains going from Mus
catine, West Liberty and Davenport.
Horses were procured at Columbus
Junction, near which point the rob
bers left the railroad.
Mounted men with bloodhounds are
now securing the country for miles in
every direction in an effort to appre-
hcnd the robbers, while all the rail-
ways that passed through Columbus
Junction or nearby points from the
time OF the robbery are being held up
by the officers and carefully inspected
by them 20 ascertain if the bandits are
undertaking to escape in this way. The
engineer and fremen of the train fur
nished good descriptions of three of
The men.
The otfic ais seem to be of the opin-
ion that the robbers, when they left
the engine TWO miles east of Colum-
bus Junction, instead of going into
that place, where the robbery had al
ready been reported by wire from
Fruitland. started off to the east into
the marsh country lying between the
Iowa and the Mississippi Rivers,
where the Iowa forms delta, and
where the country is overgrown BY
stunted timber.
Believing ;he bandits will keep un7
der cover for The time being. the Off
GERS directing the search have az
ranged to keep a sharp lookout along
the Mississippi and Iowa Rivers and
at Wapcllo Keithsburg and other
points.
The robbery occurred at a place
known as Whisky Hollow, about six
miles out OF Muscatine, and near
FruitanI.
The train known as No. II is a
through Chicago and Kansas City
train. The robbery was at the end Of
a sharp curve. and exactly where 7
similar holdup was engineered two
years ago by Marx. Niedermeyer and
Nandine. the so-called Chicago ear
barn bandits" The engineer as tine
train rounded the curve saw a red Ian
tern on the track, and immediately
stopped the train. Immediately the
engine, express car and baggage car
were boarded by the robbers. appar-
emily five IN number. A fusillade Of
shot. was fred along the sides of the
train to prevent interference by pas
sengers. The car safe was dynamitcd
and the contents taken, after which
the engine crew was compelled to re-
turn TO the passenger coaches. The
engine was then cut off and the rob-
hers ran it oucfly through Let's and
to within two miles of Columbus
junction, where it was left standing.
The manner in whi;h the bandits
handle, the engine. their knowledge
of the fact that Let's was closed
station at night. and the selection OF
point near Columbus Junction as
the place at which to abandon the en-
gine. convinces the officers that some
Of the robbers are experienced rail
road men.