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Show HOLD IIP IA TRAIN Six Masked Men Get Loot Valued at $20,000 n? ' CoffoyvWo, Kaa.. Mch. 24. For two 'Mi hours last night six masked men held St. Louie, Irou Mountain &. Southern ' passenger train No. 104 at a stand-n stand-n still on the pralrlo about six miles j south of this city, while they blew 2fc open a safe in the exprosB car and g escaped in two automobiles currying 3 with thom money and valuables jf which It Is believed will amount to ; $20,000. The train left Little Rock, at 8:30 o'clock yeBtorday morning, bound for Kansas City. It was made of a com-i com-i hlnation baggage, mall and express fj car, a day coach, a chair car, a sleeping sleep-ing car a dining car, an observation and smoking car. Tho train reached Lenapah, Okla, Just south of this city, over the Oklahoma lino, about 30:30 o'clock last night, half an hour late. Just after the train left Lena-i Lena-i pah, Engineer Lynch heard a sharp cary: ; , '"Hands up!" f Turning, he saw a masked man I sitting on the tender, pointing n re-l re-l olver at him. ' "I'm going to ride a little ways ' with you," said the man '"Drive on." Tho engineer drove on. About four miles out of Lenapah, the man made the engineor stop tho train at a place where tho tracks cxoBsed a small cut near a clump of tices. Five masked men came out of tbe clump, and, taking a position i : on either side of tho train, bogau i , Bbooting in the air and along tho ; Bides of the train. Then, while two ; ' of the men stood guard to prevent i anyone from leaving, tho other four I ' marchod tho engineer and fireman to f the day coach, user as a Jim Crow cor, and locked them in there. One man took a position yto guard the rear of the train, and three .went Into tho w express car, forcing tho two expresa-a expresa-a men to jump out and stand whore one of the side guards could keop thom covered with a revolver. After nearly an hour's' work, the men had succeeded in inserting a charge of nltro-glycerino Into tho through" Bafe in the express car. They blow the safe to pieces and scattered Its oontents over the floor They made no haste. Thoy had choson a strategic position In which to stop the train They wero at Jrrist J three miles from any human habitation. habita-tion. After the thr6e men had spent nearly an hour over the packages taken from the safe, the lights of 1 two automobiles wero seen drawing from tho direction of the Oklahoma line. As they came within about 200 I . yardB of the train on the country -I Toad, the automobiles were stopped ' Tho lights were extinguished and men t and automobiles disappeared Tho passengers, who had remained i Jjuddlod In tho coaches, afraid to ; look out the windows, relaxed and the disorganized train crew got to I their places When tho train reached 5" this city, the Bherlff was notified and. ; with two deputies, started southward , on horses in pursuit. - t I"' Safe Blown Up. CurryvlUe, Mo., March 24. Safe-blowers Safe-blowers sot off five, charges of dyna,-mlte dyna,-mlte in tho bank of Curryvlllo shortly short-ly after midnight, wrecked the building, build-ing, and safo and escaped with $40,-: $40,-: OOP- Tho citizens of the town 'wero , aroused by the blasts, but they did not try to olest tho robbers. IBank la Robbed. Hudson, Kas.. March 24. Five men blow up the safo of tho Hudson State hank early today and, after seriously wounding Mar Rico, a watchman who attempted to grapple with one of the robborB, escaped with $4,G00. ' . Masked Man Robs a Train. Donison, la., March 24. A masked man who climbed aboard tho rear of train .No. S, on tho Northwestern east hound last night, forced the flagmau. at tho point of a revolver, to go ahead into a sleeper. Tho stranger held up A. C. Hanson of Olympla. Wash., for $14 and a diamond ring and rcljoved W. J- Hcndoll of Wichita. Kns., of $35 and a gold watch Ho then jumped off the train and escaped, fl nn |