Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-15
ROBBERS DYNAMITE
EXPRESS GAR; GET
Off WITH VAST
TREASURE
Contents Of Looted Safe Said to
Aggregate Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars;
Passengers Not MOlested.
BLOODHOUNDS AND
POSSE TRAIL BANDITS
(By nveuiaE EIerald 4. ?. Leased wIrsD

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New Orleans, May i5.-Southern
Express company officials here today
declined tO VOuchsafe any informae
tlon as 10 the amount of money taken
by robbers who early today held up
Queen and Crescent flyer, south OF
TIattlesburg. and dynamlted the ex-
press car II was dealed, however.
that the robbers obtained sum APP
preaching $4,000. the loss first re-
ported.
The masked men held up the New
Orleans New York limited train, Ne.
3. nOrthbound on the New orleans
and Northeastern railroad, eight miles
from Hattlesburg Miss, shortly after
midnight this morning, and after dy-
namitlnR the safe In the express caF
escaped on horses with large sum
OF money.
The passengers were not molested
and no one was hurt. The train pro-
ceeded 10 Hattlesburg. where the city
and county officials we're notified.
Posses formed and mounted on horses
started In pursuit OF the robbers who,
II Is said. took IA nOrtheasterly direc-
ton. evidently heading for the Ala
bama state line.
Five charges OF dynamite were ex-
ploded in the expsess car, nearly de-
molishfnR il. 4 through safe. deS-
tined from New Orleans 20 eastern
points and said 60 contain possibly
| sl5O, 600, most Or which was govern
inent funds. WAS blown open. The
contents were taken.
The safe In the express car was
secured by a time signal lock when
the train left New Orleans last night.
and there was a guard Ia the car 81
addition 10 the regular messenger
II Is said that IN the car there was
one package of money representing
/ the payroll OF the Alabama ans
vicksburg al Mer.den and about
| Twenty-Five PACKAGES of cash repre-
/ aenting remittnnces OF cash of tht
southern Express agents Sf the Nicks-
hnrg. Shreveport and Eastern rail-
when the train was passing thC
1 flag station Okahoia. two masked
men climbed over the tender and
with drawn revolyers called out 4
Engineer Mahor and his fireman q
Hobey orders"
No resistance was offered and after
the train had rounded the curve aboy,
| OkRhola the engineer was command
I cd 20 stop. He complied promptly
With guns pointed az their heads th'
| engineer and fireman We're marched
i back 20 the baggage car whore Mahei
was ordered 10 call -. A. Gray o
4 CHATTANOOGA, the express messenger
who opened the door Of his car eni!
10 look into the muxzlc of pistol
/ lie Obeyed the order 20 aliBhs. Th'
trainmen were lined up alongside tn
train, and leaving them IN charge o
his partner the commanding bandi
jumped into the eXpregs car and be
gan work on the large express safe
After applying a charge OF nitro
Rlycerine he got down and awaite'
The explosion. II was Ineffective ant
succesBsvely five other charges OF tn
hiKh explosive were set Off before tn
bandit accomplished his purpose,
The sixth charge blew off the SAT
door ana scattered silver coin an'
packages of currency and other val
I uahles IN every direction.
Except $500 In silver everything 4
! sight was hurriediy placed la a sacl
and the two men backed off into tn
n darkness with their revolvers levele'
al the train crew. After Walkin
/ backward for about 100 yards IN
men duahed off. II Is believed the
A fled on horses which had been LEI
1 tn charge of Il third robhef
lt is presumed the robbers ~
those who held up a Mobile and ont
train near COrinth in February.
Hloodhouuds after taking up "a
srail Of the robbers succeeded ia tol
lowing II for only a short distanc
north of Okahola. u is believed IN
robbers boarded q freight train sool
after the passenger train proceeded,