| Show IN THE Um OF F RANOHS Chicago Express and U P Flyer Held Up Five Men Stop a Chicago West Michigan Train Shoot a Brakeman Brake-man and Depart With 750 and a Couple of WatchesUnion Pacific Overland Flyer Looted Near North Platte Grand Rapids Mich Aug 20The fast express known as the flyer on the Chicago West Michigan road leaving Chicago at 5 oclock and arriving ar-riving here at 1040 was held up by five men In a piece of woods Just he tore crossing the Kalamazoo river at 9 oclock tonight The train was Hogged by swinging a white light across the track and when It was stopped Conductor Con-ductor E E lUce of this city stepped out on the platform of the baggagecar and seeing two robbers asked Whats the matter The reply was two shots from tnelr revolvers At the same time another shot was fired Into the engine cab and a moment later two men climbed on the engine and ordered the engineer and fireman to set the brakes and keep quiet When the train stopped the brakeman brake-man Timothy Murphy of this city Jumped off the rear platform and started back with a lantern as required re-quired by the rules The fifth robber standing alongside the coach fired three shots at the brakeman one of which hit him In the side struck a rib and glanced out making a serious I lIesh wound lie dropped Into the ditch where he remained until the robbers rob-bers had gone Conductor Rice after a bullet whistled whis-tled past his head retreated to the I baggagecar and threw his pocketbook over behind the trunks Without demanding I de-manding admission the robbers placed o dynamite beside the car door blew It In and sprang Into the car with the remark Ve want all youve got here They ordered the conductor baggage man and express messenger to throw up their hands and went through their pockets taking 750 In change from the conductor but finding nothing except ex-cept watches on the others They then tackled the safe and blew It open In less than thirty seconds It contained no valuables They took watches from the engineer and fireman but when the conductor said he would need his watch It was handed back to him and saying goodnlcl u hro berJI took to Uje w sJg1 Tno passengers fortytwo 0 oTfhem were not molested To make sure of a halt ties had been piled on the track half a length ahead of where the engine stopped The bag gagecar was not disabled and the train proceeded The trainmen cannot give a good description de-scription of the robbers The leader was a heavy man who wore a full beard and another was dressed like a farmer None of them wore masks but those Wlto boarded the engine concealed con-cealed their features as much as possible pos-sible Posses are scouring the country for the robbers and officers say that unless un-less they have escaped across Lake Michigan they will be caught |
