Show BURLINGTON i TRAIN HELD UP BY BY SIX I EN EXPRESS SS S CAR WRECKED BY D AND LARGE ARGE SUM GOTTEN 1 MOUNT CARROLL lit Ill Ill Aug AuE 6 A 6 A daring darlnE and successful train rain robbery robber occurred occurred occurred oc oc- at Marcus on ll the Chicago a Burlington Burlington Burlington Bur Bur- lington Quincy railway five e miles north of ot Savannah about midnight The fine passenger train of eleven en coaches Conductor Emerson In charge chare was flagged nagged at the little tU station and six masked mask men boarded the engine en e gine The engineer and fireman obeyed the orders o of the robbers and at on once e uncoupled the en engine ln and express car from the train and ran them it a. a quarter of ot a mile up the track The robbers then blew up the express car with dynamite dynamite dynamite dy dy- ran the en engine lne not ii a mile from Hanover and the locomotive becoming dead the robbers abandoned ne Jt t and es es- es- es cared It 4 v i One Ono Robber Killed On One of ot the highwaymen was killed being shot hot above c the eye and also In the theles les leg The robbery wa was done ri quickly the trainmen and passengers making no de de- Six sacks of ot money but the amount Is not known not known The The- passengers passengers pas pas- sen ers were not mol molested Four Explosions Four explosions were required to complete complete complete com com- the destruction of or the a safe te and rind the toe car was badly wrecked The robbers were eight In number all an masked Evidently Evidently Evi I dently they were railroad tl men one one beIng being be being be- be ing a a. good engineer William Byl the messenger fired five shots at the robbers but without effect and an attempt was made to blow him up uli In his car The bandits had arranged to ditch the entire train of or nine laden heavily coaches had not the signal to stop been heeded Passengers Geld Prisoners Several passengers In h burret car Including the porter were held prisoners prison prison- ers during the struggle to to crack the safe It Is thou thought ht the dead I robb robber r was was was' killed b by a comrade by mistake The TM body was body was put on the t tender n cf and run bytho by tho the others othe sa a 5 short ta then the thrown Into the the- weeds lore dead dead iob Jobb rob Job robber b ber r waS way a stran stranger er l in this thid vicinity He was waso a middle aged age man and w well dressed In his pocket was found tin on an Iowa Central mileage credential from Grin Grinnell noil to Gilman la Ia Issued in fn the name of or A. A L. L Jacobs Ideal Up Hold-Up Point There was no wa way to telegraph the tho news of the hold up and the flagman walked hack back and Ira gate the alarm A special train of or citizens and several policemen po- po p po policemen lice men a at t once proceeded to the sc scene ne but as the track runs alon along the Ml MIs- MIs and the country countr Is A well ell adapted to a n successful flight the rOb robbers rs easily escaped Tho The work was evidently that of experts experts experts ex ex- as they w went nt at It coolly and rii me me- me Tho The train attacked Is one of ot the tho finest In the world and usually carried considerable money which hl h must have been known by the highway highway- highwaymen ay- ay men |