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Show BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN NEAR MEMPHIS CITY Seven Masked Bandits Stop Passenger Passen-ger and Blow Open Express Cjr Safe with Dynamite Posse in Pursuit Pur-suit on Switch Engine. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 8. Soven maskedjnen held up Rock Island passenger pas-senger train No. 43 near Hurbut, Ark., early thla morning and dynamited tho Tsnfe In tho express car, but It Is helloed, he-lloed, obtained only a small amount ot loot. Only meager reports had been rece Ived from tho scene of the holdup, which is several miles from the nearest near-est point of communication with Memphis, Mem-phis, at 3 o'clock. It Is stated at tho offices of the rail road, however, that the Information Is that the men wero frightened nway boforo they could get their plunder None of tho passengers wero mo lestcd, It is said. Stopped by Shots. The train loft Memphis shortly af tor midnight and crossed the brdlge an hour later. Immediately after tho train cleared the brldgo It was stopped stop-ped and within a fow minutes a fusillade fusil-lade of shots was heard, followed by soxeral blasts of an explosive. Efforts to communicate with ths Arkansas side of tho river failed, nil of the wires having been put out of commission, supposedly by tho band Its. A switch tender some dlstanco from the scene reported the train had been held up, but beyond that fnct ho could give no detnlls. A switch cngluo with a posse aboard was started for tho scene shortly before two o'clock. Poses In Pursuit. Little Rock, Ark., Fob. 7. A ropoit to Superintendent A. W. Copelny ot tho Hock Island this morning says tho only thing of value tho robbers got UUB one pouch of mall. The Rock Islnnd special agent with a posse-left Little Rock at 2 o'clock ou enstbound train No. 4 for the scene nfter having tolegraphed to Palestine, Ark, nonr Hurlbut, for bloodhoundH. A mesago iccelvod hero says tho dogs arc not iivallablu thiR morning. Special Agent Cleary was a passenger passen-ger on No. 43 when it wns held up tha last day of Inst Nevcnibor nt exactly ex-actly the same spot. A report to tho Gazette at 2:40 o'clock o'-clock this morning says a possp from Memphis Deteetlye Agency which had Continued on Pago C. BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN NEAR MEMPfS CITY Continued fiom Pago 1. Just-crossed the biidgo on a switch engine saw tha robbers, who took lo the brush, going tn the direction of tho Mississippi river. Tho posso Is still In pursuit of them. |