| Show I WHERE BULLETS FELL LIKE HAIL During Attempt to Rob a Colorado Colo-rado and Utah Express PASSENGERS THROWN INTO A WILD STATE ENGINEER OP THE TRAIN RECEIVES RE-CEIVES MORTAL WOUNDS Railway People Were Prepared For the Attjielc and Hart n Lare Num Ijcr of Armed Officer on Board There Were at Least Seven In the I Gang and Several of the Outlaw Were Farmers Living In tin Ncigrhliorhood of the Scene of tin Crime The Bandits Caught Corin Mo Sept lSThe Colorado and Utah express on the Santa Fe wa held up by robbers at 330 a m today to-day As the railroad and express officials ihad a snv on the train the bandits when they stopped the train met a hail of shots and bullets I is said that at least two are dead Jn the surrounding woods while as many others rode for the rendezvous twf > ntvone miles away riddled with lets r They shct Dad Prescott the en plneer before trey even gave him a chance to hold up his hands His wound tal it is believed will not prove ra talWhen When the train left Chicago at J oclock last evening the railroad and exnress detectives all walking arsenals arse-nals climbed on at every station Amoner them were Chief Detective J J Kinnev of the Santa Fe and J A Matthews who has been acting spy for two weeks and getting news of the robbers plans The latter brought the news that robbers early in the day had decided to leave their hiding place near Memphis at 830 oclock last night and make their third attempt to get jrich at the expense of the express com any They expected to make a haul lot at least 50000 At Frt Madison la Division Superintenr 1 Stockton 4c 3f the Wells Fargo express went into r s e treasure car He carried the 1 sawedoff Winchester that once be lonsred to Bill Dalton With him were four m ° n Detectives Kinney and Jilontcomerv boarded the engine Superintendent Stockton and two Cood shots tarried in the express car In the forward end of the smoking car shu off by a partition from the rest of the car a dozen men were placed Each had a gun located especially forte for-te event with two aozen buckshot A Traveling Arsenal At 2 oclock when Sheriff Saling of Scotland county climbed on board all the details for the surprise party were arranged According to the report brought by Matthews the spy he would endeavor to be the one who flagged the train I so one torpedo would precede the swinging of a lantern Orders were given that no matter if every one of the robbers Jot away there was to ben be-n shooting to endanger the life of the spy who had In fact taken his life in his hands in order to frustrate the attempted at-tempted robbery In a little compartment compart-ment filled with armed men the lights were out and the windows up In each bection were two men sitting side vays With the muzzles of their wih guns pro trudlnc lust a trifle over the sills Beside Be-side them stood others t Winchesters Winches-ters at half cock resting across their arms As out from between two high embankments em-bankments lust one mile from Corin sued the train there came the looked for siimal and not fifty yards away was the swinging of the red light 1ithin twenty seconds the train was at s standstill Out from the dense undergrowth north of the track came four forms the face of each hidden by a black mask One rushed to the en cine almost before his companions S could reach the express car Within ten feet of the tender he pointed to Dad Prescott the white bearded en srincer and as he shouted Hold up your hands he pulled the trigger and Dad fell to the floor with a bullet in his riirht breast With one bound Kin nev trained the top of the tender and bringing his gun to his shoulder sent shower of shot alnost into the face the masked man How the fellow managed to move six inches is a mys teiv but he did and made for the J woods The shot which laid out Engineer Prescott was a signal for a fusilade also a signal for the hasty retreat of the robbers to the shelter of the timber tim-ber The fired two shots But r although the men were leaning from the car windows and pulling the triggers trig-gers a fast as possible while others were after the robbers on foot they failed to hit a man The place where the horses were tied was soon found A cut hitching strap showed that one man at least had life enough to escape The search for the dead and wounded was postponed until daylight but the chase after one or more who escaped was started within with-in ten minutes I is not likely that the t nassencrers in the rear end of the smoker smok-er those who were dozing in the chair car and half a dozen wakeful ones in the sleeper will ever forget their experience ex-perience With the first shot everyman every-man near a window opened it and looked out within a second he had drawn his head in and dropped on the floor The cry Train robbers went through t the train and women went down on heIr knees and screamed Elpven nights ago the bandits shortly short-ly after 10 oclock started to ride slowly slow-ly across the country I was cloudy and they had not gone over a third ol the distance when rain began to fall Borne were in favor of turning back at once declaring they were not going to run the chances of being tracked by a jnud trail Their objections were overruled for the time beiflg but by the time the cavalcade was withJn seven miles of the railroad track it was apparent to even the most foolhardy that discretion was the better part of valor The command to retreat was kven and the procession returned The Ien day two of KInneys men followed e trail for five miles From the in 4 caUon they say eight men were in ie party that night Last Saturday morning was the sec Mid time the affair was billed to come off If Jt had not been for the rain the attack would have been made for in addition to the regular prize carried in the expr1s car on the train was a big bundle of money to be used by the Santa Fe in settling with some employees em-ployees for August At least that is the Information on which the robbers were acting But the rain came down too early and with too much vigor I even to permit a start Detective Kinney Kin-ney was a badly chagrined man when S the train passed the point at which S according t programme it should have been flagged He was on th engine I cad in a suit of blue junipers and looked for all the world like an ap Vniottin < t0 the art of firing an engine i o Snugly ensconced in a skilfully constructed con-structed dugout in the heaping tender full of coal was another of his good men who had put six bullets into as many telegraph poles while riding past them as fast as a pony could take him Inside the express car behind an innocent in-nocent pile of trunks egg cases and bundles of merchandise which were in reality barricades of cotton were seven with loaded Winchesters and a couple of big Colts Cunning of the Holdups Mighty handy in a tight place as Kinney put It The cunning of the holdup craftsmen crafts-men was shown in the selection of this spot for turning the little trick as the robbery was professionally des I jiirnatfd For ten miles there is no I I night telegraph station until Laplata i i reached and there is no stop therein I Once there-In a while the train takes water at Corin but there is nothing there ex II cent the tank Not within the mem orv of the oldest man on the road has a halt been made at Baring but at Hurdland which Is just ten miles west of the last named station is a switch I into which the train runs every morning morn-ing and waits for the eastbound express ex-press to pass Both are due there at I the same time and almost invariably they 51me are on time but if the westbound should not put in an appearance the eastbound would have to camp there until i came along for there is no means of finding out what the trouble I I is without running back > tp Laplata I The men who planned the robbery figured that they had the train and it lfured and would i treasure in their lockets I have all the time necessary not only to rifle the express car but to relieve the nassencers of their valuables It is evident that they made a careful I care-ful stud of the topography of the country coun-try For 1000 feet before the spot at I which the red light was swung across the rails the road winds on a reverse I curve through a cut with embankments embank-ments from 10 to 1 feet high Then j comes a little hill followed by a long stretch of track almost on a level with i the surrounding country On either I side of the right of way are dense II clumps of oak and hickory not to mention men-tion an undergrowth almost as bad as that of the northern Michigan pinewoods pine-woods But the forest though appar I entlv thick and impenetrable is only entv mile from the I so for a Quarter of a mie j track Bevond that the country stretches practically clear and is easily I traversed almost to the Iowa line I timber the I was in the middle of the tmber wa horses were hidden good stronglimb ed animals and i was theecalcula I tions that after the nights business tons been accomplished two hours hard riding would put every man safe from Dursuit and that too soon after the day dawned There are no telegraph lines up in the country where the gang lne been hiding and i was thought I news of the holdup would not penetrate pene-trate to that region until after the participants I par-ticipants in the affair had time to cover I their tracks Received a Ill I I Is nearly three weeks since the Santa San-ta Fe and the WellsFargo officials received re-ceived the tip that the raid wag contemplated con-templated Since then the express car whether inhabited by Detective Kin neys men or not has been a regular arsenal Every night at least half js dozen secret service men have climbed aboard at different points along the lime east of Fort Madison and scattered scatter-ed themselves in the day reclining chair and smoking cars Soon after that point was reached they would work forward into the smokernot a man exchanging a word with the ether eth-er all total strangers as far as outward I appearances went and before Gorin was passed half of them had disappeared disap-peared into the express car This was merely precautionary Detective Kin npys spy gave him twentyfour hours notice of the two premeditated raids spoiled by rain and then the full fbrce was on hand But the railroad and exp I ex-p ess people were taking no chances the point had been When danger passed pass-ed the men would drop off at different stations working back east along the road in te day time and repeating the operation the next night Train No 5 of the Atchison Topeka I Santa Fe railroad is what Is Known 1 as the Colorado and Utah limited I I leaves Chicago daily at 5 p m and Is due to arrive in Kansas City he next morning The Santa Fe runs almost due southwest between Chicago and Kansas City and crosses the Mississippi Missis-sippi river at Fort Madison I enters Ithe state of Missouri 250 miles distant from Chicago The road runs for some miles through a rough country the many streams which have their headquarters head-quarters in southeastern Iowa breaking it up into hills and valleys some sections sec-tions being densely wooded The bayous of the Mississippi river I are only a few miles to the east This section during the civil war was overrun with bushwhackers who frequently carried car-ried terror into the little towns in Van I i Buren Davis and Appanoose counties 11 Iowa by their frequent raids across the border j I is a fitting place for bandits to do I their work as hiding places are easy of access The inhabitants of this section sec-tion however are a sturdy honest agricultural I ag-ricultural class who have no ympathy with crime or criminals |
