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Show TRAIN ROBBER! tSJAPE ON SrOLtN ENCINE. five it- tiTaaaot and Kak Tral la ArkaiM Meal til KnltM md ra. No. 1 Cotton Belt passenger train, leaving Trsarkena. Ark., at J.''S p. m.. lu cnarge u uiniim ior .iriimmn,,, held np and robbed near Ey )au, four mile aoulb of Texarkaaa, Tuesday night. Tha train waa flagged by one of the robbera. who forced the fireman to go back and cut off the mail and baggage care, and returning, forced theengineer to give up the management of bia engine. tine of the robbera. who, it appears, la an expert engineer, ran the engine, mail and express cara about a mile from tba point where the Brat atop waa made and forced the expres messenger to open bia car. Tbe robbera then blew open tbe aafe with dynamite, aecuring, it U aaid, a very large amount of booty. Tbe roblera. five In number, after aecuring the loot, cut off the engine j from the mail and expreaa cara, and forcing tbe engineer to get off, tbey took the engine, in charge of the robber rob-ber engineer, and went aoulb. at full a peed. At 1:30 o'clock Wednesday morning tbe paaaenger train atanda In two piecea wilh tbe engine's whereabout noknowo. So far aa known no one waa injured. |