The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-06

Erie, Pa, July "a hundred or more
farmers, with every available police
officer in the county and the state po-
lice. are searching today for the train
robbers that last night held up and
robbed train No. Al on the Philadel-
phia & Erie branch of the Pennsyl-
vania lines in the most modern meth
DDS of the wild west"
The train was bound from Philadel-
phia for Chicago and was brought to
81 stop against ties mi telephone poles
piled on the track at Wesleyvllle, about
five miles from this city. The bandits
rifled the mail and express cars be-
fore they escaped. The mail clerk was
shot and seriously wounded, the con-
ductor was stoned, n many pasSen-
gers had narrow escapes from death
or wounds by bullets.
The men who are searching for the
robbers are heavily armed and an en-
counter with any of the bandits will
result in bloodshed. No accurate in
formation is ~obtainab1e as to the
amount of loot the robbers secured.
The reports that they got $25,oo0 which
Wa being shipped TO this city by
Adams express were promptly denied
by the express company as we'll as the
railroad officials.
How the Job Was Done.
The train was rounding Five-Mile
curve at reduced speed when Engineer
Albert Carey saw the obstruction on
the track in the reflection Of the loco
motive headlight. He threw on the
reverse, and just as the locomotive
crashed into the timber it came to a
stop. Had the train been running at
any kind of speed railroad men say
that it would nave been hurled down
an embankment to rocks 200 feet be-
low.
AS the train stopped one of the rob
bers boarded the locomotive. Carey
jumped to the floor of the cab from
his riding seat and hurled coal at the
man. The bandit fired and Carey
leaped TIC the ground n struggled
with the robber until another came up
and threw Carey over the embank-
ment. His clothing caught on a pro-
truding plank and he escaped with a
wrenched back.
c.. II. Block, of this city. one of the
mail clerks, was first warned by the
smashing in of the mail car door. The
gang Immediately opened fire on him.
He emptied two guns at the robbers
before he fell with a bullet through his
hip.
Conductor H. D. Rooney borrowed a
revolver from a passenger. but was
felled with a stone. He crawled to a
farm house. He was chased by farm
ers, who thought he was one of the
robbers, and sought refuge in a. tree.
Finally Rooney got to a telephone, and
notified the railroad officials here, who
dispatched officers on a switch engine
Panic of Passengers.
The 500 passengers. when they learned
they were participating in a holdup OF
yellow o magnitude, became panic
stricken. Women screamed i1ysterical,
ly and tainted. Heads thrust from the
windows were hastily pulled back. an6
those that ventured to leave hastene6
within the car when dozens of shots
belched fire along the line of the train
The shooting toward the passengers
continued, and broken glass from the
window fell tfnkling to the track. None
of the passengers, however, was hit by
the bullets, but the express agent or
the train. James Hart, received a bull,
let in the side and was brought to E
hospital here. 1t was said the robbers
fired 200 shots.
Carl o. Anderson, of Renova, Pa.
%grappled with one Of the holdup mer
and was hurled over a steep enlbank.
ment. He was saved from serious in.
jury by catching on a brush. Ander
son says the man he attacked was al
Italian.