Show A AN ei EXPRESS ROBBED twenty tramps tramp make hake a big haul haill on like la shore road A QUARTER MILLION OF DOLLARS secured by aid of guns and dynamite tho the engineer wounded wounder man arrested on oa suspicion ah indiana dispatch says the most darin daring train robbery probably the most daring darina in the history of railroading oce occurred burred at ken dall ville list tuesday n night i g h t train no 11 14 1 1 on the lake shore and michigan Ali ellian n southern which left rock island depot at chica 0 0 at was attacked and held up by twenty men as it neared a switch at this point the story of the robber robbery y as obtained from a tramp who was v as riding on the pilot of the engine is to t the he effect that twenty men 0 had turned the switch lamp amp of the switch lea leaving ving the switch in the regular t p position the en engineer n incer stopped the train and Rs ns soon coon us as they came to a standstill twenty men emerged from the darkness and approaching the express car commenced the the work of destruction by placing dynamite cartridges under it and blodi blowing n it up there was a large sum of money in the safe which it is said the robbers captured and carried away just before the robbers blew up the car the engineer made a abow of resistance whereupon the robbers fired at him and iliin i no t lie is fatally injured martin loop was conductor of the train the train dispatchers here have been notified find and a meeting of the officials of the railroad is now being in held in the rock island depot A special train is bein being gotten up and both railroad and express company official together with a strong detail of central police station detectives will leave in ill a short time for the scene of the robbery the following Z is another account of the robbery the lake shore and michigan 0 an southern passenger train nu no 14 was held up by a gang of robbers wednesday morning at kesler siding about five miles west of here there west switch was thrown showing the red light and when engineer knapp stopped hii is engine t lie he was fired upon and hit i in 11 the shoulder by a bullet from a winchester rifle the robbers then covered the train crew with rifles rides and nurl after blowing open the door of the ek express press car three of them entered and covering the express messengers proc proceeded ceded cooly to blow open the safe it took five cartrie cartridges 0 es to 0 o accomplish this the robbers robber after taking what they ri van anted ted departed the train was held beld about an ail hour en engineer ineer knapp will recover the mount amount taken from froin the safe is not known still another report says bays the new york 1 ork express train on the lake shore road which left chicago at 45 tuesday night reached tile the siding at rive five miles wes west t of liero here at one wednesday morning approaching it engineer knapp noticed red danger signal light a at the switch and stopped the train As lie did BO twenty men armed with winchesters Win chesters sprang out of tho the woods and scattered along the train covering the thain men while one fired at the en engineer gincer inflict ing a wound in the shoulder with everything 0 in ill hand the ro robbers proceeded to blow open the forward express car with dynamite then knocking the express mes fenger 0 senseless they exploded five dynamite cartridges cartridge i in succession against the safe before it yielded they helped themselves to the contents tenisi the whole performance occupying an hour when without making any attempt on oil the other express car or interfering with tile the passengers who remained in tho the cars panic stricken they fired a few warning shots and disappeared in the woods it is rumored that the robbers secured a quarter of a million dollars in transit from one i of tile the chicolo banks to new york the rumor is not yet vet verify verified the train came on here Analar an alarm was given and the elie riff at once sum monvil a 1 posse and started in pursuit of the bandits A later te telegram legrain 0 from chicago relates that th the 0 robbers secured nearly there being a considerable sid erable sum in in addition to the quarter of a million already reported por ted it is believed the robbery was the work of a ga gang n g of tr tramps amps in ili the express car was the body of mrs II Il allock of monicho Mo Vo long I 1 island land who commit committed tod suicide at it gait house a few days ago after havin having committed bigami in new york flom 1867 to 1872 end and adjacent country to the northeast were headquarters for one of the niost niest desperate desecrate gang of train robbers robber horse thieves at and id cut throats that ever invested the west in the early seventies they had bad it a re regular 0 ular system of rol robbing bing tile the fr freight eight cars of the star union line opening tile the cars rn en route and throwing 0 off the plunder to confederates the plunder in amm aggregate 00 regato amounting am bounting to va vast 4 sums about that time they varied tile the monotony by robbing the Kendall kendallville ville bank the gang ID had a strong stron a political pull and for a long 0 time escaped justice finally the citizens took the matter in hand posses were formed throughout the section and the work began in the alie coil conflicts acts which followed a dozen robbers were killed and a number of if farmers wounded twenty of the leaders ol of the gang including the notorious red leary acary were landed iri in the ho penitentiary engineer knapp brought tile the t rain rain i here but was unable to po mo any further on account of h his is wound it is believed ho he will recover there were two safes in the express car one for through matters to which the messenger had no key and OLie for local matter mailer the robbers compelled the torti 0 liioi oi booy i bl lars lars in currency were tal taken en then they blew open the big safe with dynamite tu in the other department was a quarter of a million dollars in gold with which the robbers loaded not stopping to open the inner compartment in which was a lot more money in the haste baste to get away the robbers also aleo overlooked two gold bars the train is the haavist for express ress on the road and frequently frequent y carries half a million dollars it is believed this fact was known to the robbers then they left the train the they y went in a southerly direction the point at which tile the robbery robber occurred is in ill a deep cut in the woods but all the country around is thickly populated with little timberland tim timber berand and it is believed impossible for the robbers to escape posses are arc now scouring the country in search of them another telegram from peru indiana says that a roan man civi giving ill the name of ofa C abeleen poca pocatello t ello idalio idaho and supposed to be ono one of tile the robbers of oaths lake shore train nt it was arrested here ile came in over the wabash road on a freight train |