The Little River news., 1915-12-18
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K. (. s. NO. 1
 VAS HELD UP
Three Bandits Rob K. (. $. Train Thursday Morning, But Their 
 Loot Was Very Small.

Sou.hbound Kansas City South ern passenger train No. 1, due 50 ar rive in aAshdown at 6:51 a. m., was held up and robbed by three masked bandits between Eagletcn and Acorn Thursday morning. about o'clock,
 The bandits almost wrecked the ex- press car in demolishing the safe with nitro-glycerine. They entered the mail car and escaped with four registered mail packages. as.s
 ;. The bandits boarded the blind baggage" at Page, Okla. Severa! tramps were on the blind at the time and shortly before the bandits brought the train to a stop they drew their revclvers and forced the tramps tc. jump off.
 One of the tramps realized a hold up was about to occurr and ran to Acorn, a distance of several miles, where he gave the alarm. The au thcrities at Mena were notified anc sent officers aboard a freight engine to the scene. When they arrived no trace of the bandits could be found. Several pc,sses, however, were put to work
 Cover the Engineer. When the train was about three miles north of Eagleton the robbers covered Engineer c. E. Covert, ana Fireman Tom Andrews with revolvers and brought the train to a stop. Co., evert was taken out of the engine by enc of the bandits and was forced tC. cut the train behind the mail car. The bandits then forced the crew to pro- ceed two miles farther with the ex- press and mail cars
 The engineer, fireman and D. Nj. Byard of Kansas City, express ines-. senger, were lined up on the outside of the express car by one of the ban dits while the other applied the nitro glycerine to the safe.
 The charge blew out the sides of the car, tore a hole in the rOcf, smashed the windows and glass doors and scattered the contents of the safe so far and wide that the bandits did not make any attempt to gather their expected loot. -....-... .-....
 H. A. Kewley of Siloam Springs, chief clerk in the mail car, denied aG- mitance to the bandits, who promptly fired into, the car which w. C. Pray had effectively barricaded when they learned of the presence of the ban dits. fsis5s.# gia,l1t Clerk Refused. f9.
 The clerk refused to open the car and the bandits began firing into the coach. The robbers threatened to Xiii: Engineer Covert if they did not suc- ceed in inducing the clerks to open the car. The clerks's life was in dam ger. .i
 Kewley, who had been changing his clothes when the robbery began, was marched into the open in his under clothes and was forced to stand in heavy downpear of rain. The bandits asked him where he had placed his registered pouches and when he re- piled that he had ncne he was told he would be shot to death if a pouch was found. Kewley did have 3 registered pouch, but its hiding place was not discovered by the ban dits, aG aa. H r@ Carries No Money on No. i. i h'T .ocal officials of the Kansas City Southern and the Wells Fargo Co. Expgess. saids that train No. 1 seldom carries arv large amount of money. The northhound, trains han de the largest portien of the money. All money is taken of No. 1 at Sil- oam Springs in order to keep from passing through the hold up" region of Polk county during the night. TT at- &5s- f@ stt' 4.'' .tsrJs i&}g, tl4L3s