Show STORY OF A PASSENGER i Travelers Made Haste to Hide Their Valuables Charles W Biunner of Fremont Neb was In one of the Pullmans of the train held up and on reaching this I city at 1 a mo yesterday registered at the Manitou His story of the affair was as follows 4 At 930 the sleeper passengers were preparing to retire when the train suddenly stopped Some of the passengers got off to see what I was the matter but it was some time before they learned the reason Presently Pres-ently the forward part of the train the mall baggage and express cars was out off from thc remainder of the I i train and pulled ahead Into the darkness I dark-ness Pretty soon the passengers I dropped onto what was up although they could See nothing and not even < shot was heard Then the passengers I hustled around to hide their valuables Some tucikcd r undcrtmnt 1 tresses in cuspldorcs under section carpets cushions wherever they thought would be D safe place Some few had revolvers which they proceeded i I pro-ceeded to prepare for business as though they were about to kill oft half of the holdups In the country In the meanwhile the train hands were piled vigorously with questions but professed pro-fessed not to know any moic about what was going on than If the holdup had occurred in Persia I was an axious two hours or so that we waited r and wailed for the feared visitations that did not materialize and speculated speculat-ed and philosophized while f brakeman brake-man went down the line with a red lantern to prevent any collision By and by the missing link returned with a freight car substituted for the baggage car which we subsequently learned had been battered too much for further use The express car had one end knocked out and the outfit looked as though I It had been through a Porto RIcan hurricane Still we were unable to get at thc facts beyond that there had been a holdup as the trainmen refused to enlighten the passengers further and the robbers had neglected to visit the passenger coaches at all That the baggage car had been through the wars was evidenced from the appearance of some of the baggage My grip had one end knocked out and a number of trunks were broken and otherwise disfigured One traveling travelng man wag much exercised over the disappearance of a rawhide trunk and the last I saw of him he was ane find It I |