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Show Express Car Dynamited ; and Robbers Escape H 5 With $140,000. I ' New Orleans, La., May 15. South- s- , em Dxpress company officials here j today declined to vouchsafe any in- A formation ns to the amount of monoy taken by robbers who early today held up a Queen & Crescent flyor south V j of Hatticsburg and dynamited the ex- Aji press car. t,j It was denied, however, that the , J j robbers obtained a sum approaching f ?H0,000, the lose first reported. i j f The passengers were not molested i and no one was hurt. The train pro- S j? ceeded to Hattlesburg, where the city lJ and county officials wero notified. R PosseB formed and mounted on horses I 3 iu pursuit of the robberB, who, It lo ' said, took a northeaoterly direction, . eridently heading for the Alabama state line. Tho train had Btopped at a water 5 tank just north of Richland "when the i men boarded tho expiess car, yAt the 'j time nearly all tho passengers ex- .; cept a few who were to lejave the , .j train at Hattlesburg wore asleep In their bertha. , ' Tho men first forced the engineer and flronian to leave the ouglno and, ' together with the conductor, flagman I and other members of tho train crew, they were lined up against the train and covered with a leyolver by ono 1 of the robbers, while tho other entered j the expreBs car and forced the ox- j press messenger and a guard, Bald to be watching the government money ; 011 tho train, to got out and join the j -: lineup The messenger and guard ' wore relieved of their weaponB be- ' , fore they had a chance to make any j resistance. j i After the guards and mesDengor I - had disembarked, the robber guarding the crow sent ono of them back through the coaches with Instructions to Inform passcngera tho train wan being held up "for a certain purpo (Continued on Pago Seven.) I I 1 1 II I 1 EZBZgS3330r?cgTgBgrcBaBag II II II II J HELD UP (Continued from Pagu One.) and they were safe as long as they remained Inside the car." Tho safe in tho express car was secured se-cured by a time signal lock when the traiu left New Orleans last night and there was a guard in tho car in addition addi-tion to the regular messenger. It Ib said that In the car there was one package of monoy reprdsentlng the payroll of the Alabama & Vlcka-burg Vlcka-burg railroad at Meridan and about 25 packages of cash, representing the remittances re-mittances of agents of the Southern Express company at points along the Vicksburg. Shreveport & Pacific railroad. rail-road. There wero also two or more sacks of silver, containing $1,000 each, other packages-of currency and several packages of Jewelry, valuablo stock certificates and bonds. When the train was passing the flag station, Okahola, two masked bandits climbed over tho tonder and with drawn rovoh-ers called out to Engineer Engin-eer Mahcr and his fireman to "Obey orders." No resistance was offered and after j tho train had rounded the curve above Okahola the engineer was commanded , to stop. lie complied promptly. With guns pointed at tholr heads tho en-gincer en-gincer and fireman were marched back to tho baggage car, whore Maher was ordered to call tho oxpress mesaen- J ger, D A. G,ray of Chattanooga, vho opened tho door of his car only to ( look Into the muzzle of a pistol. Ho obeyed the order to alight Othor ; trainmen were Hnod up alongside tho ' train and leaving them In ohargo, of his partner, tho commanding bandit jumped into the express car and began work on the large express safe. After applying a chargo of nltro-glycerine, he got down and awaited the oxplo-Bion. oxplo-Bion. It was ineffective and successively succes-sively five other charges of the ex-plosho ex-plosho were 9et off before tho bandit accomplished his purpoBC The sixth chargo blow off the safe door and scattered silver coin and packages of currency and other valuables valu-ables In ovory direction. Except $300 In 3llvor, everything In sight was hurriedly placed in a cask and the two men backed off into tho darkneea with tholr booty. After walking backward for about 100 yards the men dashed off. It i6 believed they fled on horses which had been left in chargo of a third robber. It is presumed tho robbera arc those-; who hold up a Mobllo &. Ohio train near Corinth In February. None of the passengerB wero molested. When the train reached horn express ex-press employes made an Inspection of the rifled car. They plokel up on tho floor of tho car about 300 silvor dollars dol-lars and found sevoral silver dollars had adhered to the sides of tho safe. They also found In tho 'safe about $700 in currency. |