The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-23
10 minutes late.
Express Car Badly Damaged.

4" minutes late.
Express Car Badly Damaged.
Every window in the handsome
express car was blown out and a
potion of the roof was torn off by
the explosion.
Arriving in GreenVille engines
were changed and fresh crew with
the exception of Conductor Mooney,
TOOK charge of the train and pro-
ceeded northward. Engineer FAINT
cane down town about 1880 O'Clock
and walked into office of the morn
ing newspaper and told the story of
o. the daring train robbery. Within
snort time newsboys were crying
NAtra" upon the street and the en-
tire city knew OF the dynamatic oc-
currencc.
The engineer then went to the
headquarters of the Charlotte divis-
ION OF the Southern Railway, in the
iatmetto Euilding, and made his
report Oh The robbery. His report
is rs follows:
Engineer Fant'S Account.
Il was engineer on train &c. en-
gine 1915, Atlanta to Greenyille
this morning, February is. On a
straigh line, just north of the 5S7
mile post, near White Sulphur.
saw red light swung across the
track 3hOut 2OD ~, .nn ,-osa.
of me. l applied the brakes and
stopped ut the light and picked up
a man. He told me there was n
broken rail ahead. | only saw one
man at the start, but as the train
came to stop man got up on the
engine on each side, with drawn re-
Volvers, and ordered the fireman
and myself to throw up our hands
and then searched US. They told
us it was Il hold up. and one man
stayed on the engine to guard me
while others went back to rob the
train. They first attempted to cut
the express car off, and told me as
soon as | got n signal to go ahead
They worked some time trying to
cut the car off, but none being fa
miliar with the cutting loose, they
tailed except to cut the air OFF the
train pipe.
Forced to Go Ahead.
One of the men came back to
the engine and told me they could
not cut the train loose and made me
go back then to the express car.
The express messenger had not
opened the door. They said unless
he did open the door the train
would be blown up with dynamite, a
stick of which one had in his hand
at the time. l began to call Con-
ductor Mooney. hoping that some
OF them could come out to the
rescue. The express messenger then
opened the door and they made him
throw up his hands. They went in
side and one put stick OF dyna-
mite to the stationery safe and en-
ploded 1t. The explosion did not
accomplish anything. He then took
another stick of dynamite and nut
it on top of the little safe, piled
dirt on 1t, touched Off the fuse and
blew the safe all to pieces. damag-
ing the car and express. saw
bandits being in the car this time.
AFTER having taken all the money
and packages out of the safe they
told me / could go.
Il went to the engine and pulled
on away to Lula. leaving my fire
man and the flagman. The bandits
made the fireman leave the engine
before before ! was taken back,
and never saw him any more.
White Men and Masked.
All of the men we're masked. The
leader of the crowd was either a
Western or a Northern man, but the
other two whom heard speak we're
Southerners. All were white men,
and wore rags or handkerchiefs tied
about their faces, below the eyes.
only saw three of the men, but /
heard the leader call as high as
number seven, in ordering the men
to do something. He called them
by numbers instead of by names.
They appeared to be about medium
size.
They had nothing but dynamite
and pistols, no tools. They only
made one attempt at blowing open