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Show BRAVE EXPRESS MESSENGER STANDS OFF TRAIN ROBBERS. Bandits Hold up a Southern l'acilio Express Ex-press Train, lint the Messenger Refuses Re-fuses to Turn Over His Safes. The northbound Southern Pacific overland express was held up by robbers rob-bers near Walker's station, fifteen miles south of Eugene, Ore., at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning and the express car badly damaged, but the booty of the robbers amounted to little. The. train was cut in two by the robbers rob-bers and the express car and the first coach run ahead. After going a short distance the train was stopped and the robbers proceded to the express car, taking with them the engineer. The express car was blown open with dynamite and Express Messenger C. Charles was ordered out, but refused, and with his shotgun commanded the situation inside the car." The robbers ordered him to come oiit or be blown up with the car, but he responded: "Blow and be ." The car was then riddle with rifle bullets, which did not injure the messenger, who kept up a continuous fire from the inside, which held the robbers at bay. A charge of dynamite was ' then thrown into the car with a burning fuse, but Charles grabbed it and threw it outside, where it exploded. Next the robbers compelled the, engineer en-gineer to crawl up to the opening inside in-side of the? car, hoping to use him as a protection from the messenger's shots, but the messenger kept up a steady fire over the engineer's head and still held the robbers at bay. The robbers then gave up the task of securing the express treasure, and went for the mail. They secured the registered mail, then cut the engine out from the rest of the train and ordered or-dered Engineer Lucas to pall ahead. They ran to Judkiu's 1'oint in the outskirts out-skirts of Eugene, where they disembarked disem-barked and ordered the engineer to return re-turn and get his train. |