Show A during train robbery in missouri THE and sent into victoria responds oa lie bucs liim COUin ilEn st lonis aid the fair tam rioting Sio ting scrapes talal wenorn aaion press to THE bolf of 33 eaird a ex arts KANSAS cm aug up your hands was the command that astonished the passengers of the st baul sleeper attached to the rear of the wabash evening ei presa as it pulled out of harlem at 8 last evening the command ft as spoken by one of two roen whose faces were concealed bebing their handkerchiefs and who biad entered tho rear of the coach hands went up there w as seven people in the coach live passengers sleeping the car conductor and a porter among ibo passengers was a lady at the first command her face was blanched with fear her hands went up for a moment and then tell listlessly iuta her lap she had fainted 1 I guess she wont bother us remarked one of the robbers and satisfied that no resistance would be offered they commenced their work of plunder and one man w ent through the passengers one by one while the other with revolver ia bis extended hand kept a watchful lookout for signs of opposition in this way the plunderer secured all the booty he could in his haste and when it was all over and alia robbers bad escaped the mckims found they biad been relieved of in cash and tao gold wat clies the train left kansas city at 8 20 last night when it had reached the ilia river bridge two men were seen to act off alie forward end of the baggage car and disappear behind a lumber pile the tram hands thought they were tram pa who bad stolen a ride from kansas city and paid no attention to the incident they are now convinced that they were tho robbers and that they caught tho rear end 0 the last deeper as it passed the lumber pile just as the train pulled out of harlem the robbers boarded a sleeping car and went through the passengers ml above described it was evidently their intention to rob the passengers in all the coaches aud worked tha train from the rear for as they left the st baul sleeper they again cautioned the passengers not to give an alarm under penalty of being shot by the man on the platform leaving the st paul coach they started for the next one ahead on the platform they met the conductor of the train john roach of the robbers pushed his revolver under the conductors nose abid ordered biro to hold up hia hands the conductor supposed suppo Eed from the nature of their disguise that they were a number of railroad men who had taken passage on the train and playing a practical joke on him and with a laugh he attempted to push past them ana enter the sleeper just then a gust of wind swept the baaki ot the robbers aside and then he knew the aal dir nas one of dead earnest ho had no weapon ant he carried bis lantern in his land with that he dealt one of the men a vicious blow ocr the head simultaneously with this assault another robber fired a shot at him the aim was bad and abs tbs bullet its mark the first robber had by this time recovered himself and he too took a shot at the conductor his aim was no more precise than that of his partner the robbers then w ith one more parting shot swung off from tile steps ef the car As they did so the conductor hurled two lanterns alter them debei mined to have the last tag on them the trains as at the rate of 23 miles an hour conductor koach swung out beyond the eide of tho car saw the robbers arise and make with all haste for the road that auids to city that was the last ecea of terni in tle me antinio the in tho been BO completely rowed that they did not regain their senses until they haird firing on the platform then one of them pulled the cord which connected with an air brake and the train camo to a egand baill about a mile from the place where the robbers jumped off the special agent of the wabasha road who was on the engineer to run to a few miles ahead anil there uncoupled the engine and ran it buck to ll arlem where a posse was organ zad and started out at once ft ere at the t the bridge to prevent an into kansas city tho police of the neighboring towns add been warned the bobbera are as rather youthful youth tul dot er 0 or 23 years 0 age 0 slight build aud dreaded boane thang lika fanned na one saw their balea except the conductor and by the lim light ut his he no deumite impression 0 their faces yr locis aug 6 in an anten bew tonight conductor koich hero of the dabagh train robbery eaid ve left kansas city list at of clock and this trouble have oc corred at as near as I 1 can judge to tell you alie truth I 1 WAS BO badly frightened that I 1 dont know anything about it anyway just after leutink kansas city 1 started to KO through the train to collect my tarch and just alter pissing harlem I 1 did liny work in the st almia bleeder and starlei star tei for the rear dour on my way to the bt iochi intending to take up the farea in that and the ua molcey wa braug out of kansas city on that bralo and leayo at where they arc picked up and sent north when I 1 reached ahe door and opened it I 1 was met by two men who had their aces coe reil by bandana handkerchiefs and aaili uno covered wo cocked revolvers one of them blood on the platform of alie st paul coach waiting tor me and the other stood a little to the ight 0 the door on the plat form of thal st louis sleeper As eoon as I 1 opened alie door nearest to me he said hold up our hands I 1 thought a couple of the boys were auti puti ink lip a little came on me just tor iw and I 1 laughed and made some akini reply quick as a husli he shoved the muzzle ot his cun into my fice and said in an ugly tone of voice hold up bour hand or ill blow the whole top of your head off I 1 did not fancy that kind of talk and without stopping to consider I 1 let him have it with my lantern tho remainder of the story has been told I 1 believe the robbers shot to kill ano returned this morning after almost a fruitless bearch tor the robbers they succeeded in tracing the men to a farmhouse here it fa known they atole a horse from a farmer named it is supposed they forced the boree to carry a double load tracks ot the animal at least were traced to a bend in the nver where footprints in the sand showed that two men probably dismounted at this place all race of the bandits were lost it is likely they crowed alio and boarded the train for leavenworth on the kansas and northern hallway escaped by that means to leavenworth and thence to some point in nebraska arto of the passengers in alie eleeter w ere mr and mrs charlesi P leu baui of this city |