The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-02-21
Held lJJIE TRAIN.
Bandits Dynamite EIp,ess sear and Gil
Seven Hhaired Dollars.

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After. Getting the Honey, the Thieves
Made. Their Tlsespes in an Automo--
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the Passengers = ~ They Left Big g
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Southern train No. 36. New Or
leans TO New York, which passes
sGreenville at $40 "a: m. was held up
masked.bandits, one mile
north OF White Sulphur, Ga, 100
miles from GrGenville, at 2:15
20 clock Saturday morning and the
express car dynanlited. A bandit en-
tered the express car and attempted
! to blow open the stationary safe, con-
! tanning thousands Of dollars, but the
1 attempt was not successful. He: then
4 placed a stick Of dynamite on e small
q safe, covered it with dirt and touched
\ of the fuse. The safe was blown to-
atoms and some 300 was secured. ST.
On a straight line just. north Of
the S.7-nile post D. J. FAINT, the en-
s giIeer, was induced to stop; his en-
Z @gine by the waving Of red light
:. across the track, some 800 or 400
yards ahead sof the engine. He ap-
! piled the brakes and slowed down,
picking Up "a lar, who told him that
there, was "a. broken rail ahead and
that It; was being repaired. At the
! same time a bandit climbed up on
jsthe other side OF the engine and the
two covered. the engineer and fire
sSman with revor1ers, ordering them
Stosnold up their hands. One Of the
bandits Informed the engineer that 1t
meant a hold-up, Ss5 81 W. 55,. 5..;, Z,
Leaving his partner to, guard the
4 engineer, the bandit then got down
! S5and went back tt, rob the express car,
{ telling the engineer before he left
! that when certain signal was given
forEh him to start the engine. The ban
Il dit: attempted Ito cut loose the ex-
press car, but failed. He then sew
&ered the air pipe and went back to
/: the en- gine. He ordered the engineer
get down. and bring along shovel.
4 Going back to the express car. Once
more, the express messenger was or
& sdered to open the door. When the
messenger failed to respond to, the
I order, the bandit threatened to blow
esup 1.-The entire car with q aestick rof
ynamite which he. held in his hand.
sss. The door. was thrown open and the
Messenger was covered with a re-:
Z Yolver and ordered to throw up his
hands. n <i y, e "a. 4 5;5 Is &
Il "a bandit then entered the car and
placed. "a stick of dynamite on the
stationery safe and touched of the,
& fuse. The explosion failed to accom-
5plish the 4 desired Il results, and he
J turned his attention TO o small safe.
$.close by. "A stick: of dynamite was
i placed on top of 1t and dirt piled
4 I! on top. The explosion completely
wrecked the safe, damaging the car,
/ and express matter A number. Of
packages were taken out of the de-
}smolished safe by two bandits, q sec
& ondf one having entered the car in
I the meantime. 4.
After having looted the safe the
b gineer was told that he could 60.
ssHe went back to his engine and
4 pulled on up 70 Lula, minus a fire.
man and flagman. The former, a
4 kcoloreds man, was made to, get down
7 from the engi2e and flee through the
{. woods BY the bandit who was left in
+ the cab when the engineer was car
: ried back to the express car. When
the train stopped the flagman dis
{ mounted and went back to flag later
!, trains. 5 +: ~
When, Engineer Fant was taken
5 back to the express car by the bandit
Z he called to Conductor Mauney, who,
0he ,thoua;ht, was in a coach short
4 distance back. The conductor, how
4 &ever. was under cover of bandits
revolver from the time the train
: stopped. When the train first stopped
Conductor Mauney stepped to the
ground to see what hte trouble was,
and was Immediately covered by a
bandit. Having looted the express
: car, the bandits backed off, keeping
Z their revolyers on the trainmen all
the while. When they had gotten
into the woods they turned about and
beat husty retreat.
Conductor Mauney says he heard
the men calling to one another.
s.tThey used numbers and not names.
There were seven called but I only
saw five. One man was on one side
& of the train holding the crew and
passengers back while another was
on the other side doing similar duty.
There was no attempt made t. rob
any one nor was any one hurt. The
5 place was admirably suited to the
purpose for The banks prevented any
of the passengers from getting away
from the train without being seen.
After the two explosions In the e2-
press cars, the yeggmen disappeared
as If by magic. AS quickly as
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