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Show HOLD HIUIIW AYMKN. They Attack a ilailn ay Mill ion, lo Th roillfll a Couduelor and Operator and Wow Open the Safe. PlTHBUBO, March 9. At Finleyville, twenty-two miles south of this city on the Baltimore ,V Ohio road, a nans of four highwaymen assaulted .1 K. McMilien, a shifting' conductor. After they had hound and gagged him lie whs carried some distance dis-tance away and tied to a post. The desperadoes desper-adoes then relieved him of his watch and none) and after threatening to kill him if lie tried I.. mnk- a noise, they went to the telegraph tower and at the point of a re volver forced the operator to surrender, lie was hound ami gagged, after which he was also relieved of his valuables. The robbers rob-bers next turned their attention 1o the safe in the office. It was locked hut they blew it open Willi charge of powder, the explosion wrecking tl nice. The report attracted the attention of the trainmen in tin- vicinity and the desperadoes were frightened off he- ; fore thej could secure the contents of the safe, which were scattered over the room. The entire detective force of the Baltimore A- Ohio road were at onee sent in pursuit of the perpetrators id' the outrage. |