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Show Denver Express. Pudacah, Kentucky, Morning News says: The members of tho Holder! Ilros. Theatrical company, playing "The Denver Kxpress" are called upon at overy performance to enact a train tobbery and a massacre, but for the first time the actors in the troupe aic no.v In a position to know the thrills of a real hold-up on the rail. They passed through the experience Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. The company was cnioute to Paducah, Kentucky, on tho St Louis passenger train. On tho train was a gangof white laborers en-routo en-routo from Chicago to work on a division divi-sion of the Illinois Central. Near Ileevesvllle, about twelve or lifteen miles from Metropolis, some of tho laborers, who had been drinking whiskey, became hilarious and finally decided to rob the passengers Several of the men, compaiatlvely sober, objected ob-jected to any such conduct, and they weie promptly "touched" for all they had in their possession. The drunken men then started for the passenger coach, when Yardmastcr Ed Durm, of Centralla, 111 , stopped them. The yardmastcr had been called at Centralla Cen-tralla by the conductor, who expected trouble. A tight ensued and Durm pulled a pistol, with which he knocked three or four of the rulllans down. Conductor A. Uupp, of Centralla, III , went to the yardmaster's rescue with a pistol, and shot ono of the men In tho mouth The laborers were then kicked oil the train One of them got back on four times In ono Instance he was knocked olT and fell under tho wheels and the train was barely stopped In time to keep him from being be-ing ground to death. An Illinois sherlll on the train also assisted In lite work of throwing tho men olT Tho Denver Express company had all of Its oaggagc aboard, and tho male mew.-bcrswero mew.-bcrswero unlocking their trunks to got tholr pistols when tho trouble ended. The women of the troupe were badly frightened." This company will appear at the Thatcher opera house Saturday, November No-vember 10. |