Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-08
Rock Island Hold Up Be lieved to Be the Work of
 the Same Gang.
MONEY BLOWN AWAY
Safes and Cars Demolished Big Sum Went By On An Ear
 Her Train.

Hurlburt, Ark, Feb. 7.-Thc robbery of the Rock Island passenger train, last night gives every evidence of the same crude work of last November. The work was done ill much the same
 way. Dynamite was oiled OH top Of
 the big safe, and the little safe was
 placed on top of the explosive. As a result, the big safe was completely blown to pieces and blown off of the right of way. Any valuables in il
 must have been destroyed.
 There were at least four men, anu perhaps five. They were seen a Hurburt on the previous afternoon. Detectives on the ground believe that
 th5y are the same gang who pulled of the other job. It is practically cef-
 place in the SWamps on this side of the river, and will not atempt to run tn,
 cordon of detectives and re-cross un
 til things blow over.
 The Wreckage of the cars is streWn for yards on both sides of the right Q! way, and the express car was evident
 ly blown into bits by the explosion The two masks found near the track were crude black calico affairs.
 Nf Di,,1y ton agency, said late today beforc leaving for Memphis, that his investi- gation had satisfied him that if there was any none yin the big safe, it wa utterly destroyed. The safe was liter ally blown inside out, and looks like the letter U. Crowds of negroes and school children have bedl searching along the tracks for money, but have found nothing. There were two reg istered mail pouches taken from tn mail car. The eXpressmen claim that the regular bank shipments wer. made on an earlier train, but it i. said that a shipment of over $50,0CQ to an Oklahoma bank was on the train.
 Posse After Robbers.
 Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 7.-Early a. rests in connection with the holdup and robbery of a westbound RocR Island train, near Hurlburt, Ark, few miles from Memphis early thi
 morning are expected. The impress sion among local police officers, rail
 road and express officials, is that the holdup was committed by tive men.
 Late this afternoon a posse of rail road detectives, postoffice inspectors Pinkerton detectives and men at tached to the staff of the sheriff of Crittenden county, Arkansas, con-
 menced search of Presidents Is land, several miles down the river. Marks on log on the Arkansas side of the river. directly across from the island and near the, scene | of the robbery leads the officers to think that motor boat had been | tied there during the night and that the robbers had escaped to the Gs- land immediately following the rob- bery. Operators connected lwith the O'Haver detective agency in this city have had photographs taken of Hn ger prints found on sticks ~of dyna- | mite found beside the railroad tracks. Photographs of finger prints on the ruins of the safe and on black mask that was found have also been made A fairly good description of the two men who played the leaders, if not the entire squad of t14 robbery has been given the rffiHC One .a short and rather heavy set, declare the members of the train crew and the express messenger and mail clerks. The amount of loot secured from the robbery is problematical 1t is known the robbers must have made way with large sums for a registered pouch was stolen. Re- ports were issued today by special agents assigned to the case were to the effect that between $50,000 and $100,000 in currency had been taken from the safe in the express car This was denied by A. V. Ford, local agent for the express company, who stated that there was but little if any cash in the safe and that the daily shipment of cash for banks in Arkansas and the Southwest had been made on an earlier train.