Show DARiNG BANDITS HOLD HOLDUP VP UP TRAIN NEAR AR CHICAGO f Mistook Mistook the Mail MalI Car for the Express and Got No NoS I f S Booty for their Pains t i i Used Dynamite Freely and Frightened Passengers By Fir f r Ing lug Off Revolvers S Chicago July 31 The e Baltimore Ohio pa train from r the east which bleb was due tj to arrive in the Grand Grand Central station Chicago so at 9 tonight ht win wis held Id up by live five masked men at S 8 tonight between Edgemere Edge Edgemere mere and Grand Calumet Heights Ind md mines out from Chicago One of the mall niall cars can which contained no money ey was WU dynamited and wrecked The attempt at robbery was made alter after the two to mall mail cars care had been detached de detached from the train and run a quarter quarter quarter ter of a mile ahead The failure of the robbers to make a rich haul was due to the fact that the express car which contained the trains treasure was in inar Inan Inan an ar unusual place It was the third car ear in the th train After th the mall mail car ear and obtaining no booty the themen themen themen men disappeared in the darkness with without without without out attempting to rectify their mistake The only loot O t that they carried away with them as a result of their adventure adventure ture lure was the gold watch of the en engineer engineer engineer The train was the New York and Washington vestibule limited Most of or orth th the trainmen were shot at and had nar nat narrow narrow row escapes from the bullets No per person pernon er erBOn son non was Injured either by the dyna dynamite dynamite mite or firearms The place where the robbery occurred is a lonely district where houses are few and far between The train was running at a high rate of speed as it passed Calumet Heights and Immediately passing pa out of or sight of the station Engineer J W Collins I Iw saw w directly in front of his engine a large fire on some rails had been I placed He slowed showed down and as he did I so 80 three men w wearing oaring masks over oYer their faces Jumped into the cab and covered Collins and his fireman James Whip Whipple Whippie I pie with receivers Shooting Created Panic Just before climbing into the cab the three men commenced to fire with their I revolvers to frighten away all assist assistance a l t alice ance The shots Hots produced the liveliest kind of panic in the sleeping cars care where the passengers made every effort to hide their money and valuables be before before before fore the robbers could get at them No attempt was wu made however to rob any of the passengers pas engers After mounting into the cab of the engine the robbers covering cov the engi eni engineer I Ineer neer aad d firemen with KIth their revolvers made the m tap p W and s hack Ik the t he her hemea r S mea to S which hM It 1 ii the two trainmen back into the can cab covered d ditl and still keeping engineer cover with witt revolvers directed him to pull up some distance from the rest of the th train Engineer Collins ran up feet and an anas d was as then directed to stop He did so and white while one of the men ama 1 r rH j guard Win the others Jumped s ad Md I hurling dynamite at the door of fill the tM t car which they Ju judged to be ae ea t press ear sar burst open the door Hastily I climbing in to get pt at the safe t i I were astonished to find And that they Imd Ie qS I broken into a mail car They threat threatened 11 ened the engineer with death for not j telling them that the ears cars which he Ie lust had I uncoupled were not express care can aid i I LV ordered him bun to return at once onee and un ua uncouple I h couple the next car behind tim tile bag baggage i iga gage ga e cars can S CUm once onCe more into his bis cab Col OI Collins III line lins backed his engine ne town own COD CODon a aon on to the third car which the j was made to uncouple at the rear tear f fand I and still with KIth the mu muzzle le of the tile re we revolver i l volver volyer at his head Collins CotUna was ordered or ere l u uto to run down the track as 8 before Be ifs Bedrew Bedrew Cl drew away from the remainder of th the e etrain train about the same distance aa am on J the Arst occasion and the robbers stilt I leaving him under charge of one ODe of ot J their number attacked the other othar car j ji t Robbers Bobbers Were 3 i i When they reached it they t ey found to w their great wrath that they had bad opened another mail maU ear and that It contained 1 1 no money The train had been delayed now fully thirty minutes and ad fearing fera j tt that i if they delayed delaye any ay longer kr help Mp would be b coming to the train ti crew t the robbers gave up their attempt to t ass the train and ran ra into a thicket thi oC of o 1 scrub arub oak ok at the side aide of the track tk and al disappeared The train came ca en on to w L Lafter Chicago and officers were at once o sent st t after Chicag the robbers Within an a hour h after a t trail trai the robbery robber a large Jr posse p S SCharles was waa wa on O teb Charles Chale A Cross CI conductor of o the tto t I A Atin train tin brought bu b into the city several sticks st of oC dynamite that had been b l left by the robbers robb at the side sd of o the th frack t I Ith F A Applegate of Newark 0 O was waa A Applet the express messenger and was waa w aloes L I th a a in his hil car cr He had ha no idea ida that tt a rob robbery I attempted until te Ia bevy bery bry was aa being bl 1 i heard hed the shooting on 01 the outside H K Ke Kethen i ithen then seined seised a Winchester rifle and aad t top of the safe se awaited await de developments I determined to make the t best fight in his hi power He was wa not a 1 bt fht pwe I molested in any way however He se that there was wa considerable gold old and silver in the car cr and that the robbers r mut must have secured quite quit a h sum I if i they ibey t t had come to the te right place p h Local Lal express officers oace refused refined r to say P t Meca th there was the j S S 1 lev robbers b knew k of of large amount of money mon and a valuables va 1 1 S aboard abard i After leaving the train tri the th robbers robber r turned toward Lake Lae Michigan I It I te is a believed boat boat they made their final fl t ta S In i L t |