The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-27
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

ST. Louis, Jan. 25.-With more than
a hundred deputy sheriffs, constables
and special service men In pursuit, it is
believed that the four men who held
up Missouri Pacific train No. 8 last
night near Eureka, 80 miles from this
city, will be run to earth today.
B~loodhounds were put on the trail
today. the dogs being brought from
Jefferson City. 1t is believed the four
men are hiding in the foothills near
Eureka. The men had three hours the
start Of their pursuers, but the country
rs Wild II inaccessible, and the Off
GERS think they were unable to reach a
place of safety before the pursuit start
ed.
Just how ralch the men got from the
email car is unknown. Twenty-Five sacks
or mail were ripped open and hundreds
of letters We're rifled, while many 9TH
er letters and packages are supposed
TO nave been carried away.
Safe Resists Efforts.
The safe in the express car resisted
all the efforts of the robbers to open it
with jimmies n crow bars and they
did not attempt to use an explosive.
Two bandits boarded the train, due
into st. Louis at 1O:40 o'clock from
Kansas City, at Pacific, nine miles
west OF Eureka, at 1915 o'clock. The
other two tagged the rain a mile east
OF Eureka in a lonely spot, with red
lanterns.
AS the train slowed down, the w
on board climbe over the tender and
engine. mail coach and combination
baggage and express car were cut off,
after n express messengers and mail
clerks had been ordered from their
cars. f. E. Beeton, the baggage clerk,
hesltated about leaving his car and a
hlliIpf ga frial q J-ou hic. hot NO - l>11r
of his hair.
Mails Are RifIed.
With one of the robbers at the throt-
lie, the engine and two ears ran to
C~astlewood, six miles distant, where
the four took their time about rifling
the mail. The water was let out of the
boiler n h engineer and fireman
We're ordered to walk east for Is min
utes under threats of instant death.
The quartet hen disappeared into
the woods. The stranded passenger
coaches, three in number, lay on the
main line until 2 o'clock this morning.
when they. together with the engine
brought into ST. Louis by a freight
train.
The engine and the two cars with it
We're not located until the engineer and
fireman. ran the six miles back to it,
after getting their orders from the
h~ighwaymen.
E. J.. Karn, of Toledo, Ohio, one of
the passengers on the train, said, when
he arrived in st. Louis this morning:
We heard shots and then the engine
stopped. The conductor came running.
into the car n said: It's a hold up.
sure Some of us stuck our heads out
OF the window, but several bullets went
whistling by. We found it convenient
to stay inside"
w. w. Dickson, postoffice INSPECTOR
in charge at ST. Louis, on
would offer a reward of 81, 900 each for
the capture of the robbers. He had
just returned from the scene Of the
robbery where five of his assistants
We're working.
He believes the loot Of the robbers
was small So far as he can tell now.
only 16 registered packages were taken.
Three big registered pouches were
overlooked by the bandits.
The bloodllounds, as soon as they
were put on the trail, followed it east
chester, st. louis county, and thence
along the Manchester road toward ST.
Louis. This caused the belief that the
robbers came here and the local police
have been ordered to join in the search.
Train robbery in Missouri Is now a
capital offense.
The five mail clerks were changing
their clothes when the train was held
up and they We're forced out into the
cold without their trousers. They took
refuge in the smoker and passengers
supplied them with clothes.
HADLEY OFFERED REWARD.
Jefferson City. Mo-, Jan. 25.-Gov-
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