| Show DARING TRAIN ROBBERY BOBBEE the I most remarkable affair of the kind in railroad history baw U telegraph to the tile illers herld id l ST louis sept regarding the train robbery the following particulars are learned the train was s iho the westbound west bound express and had a hundred passengers all of whom lost many quite heavily frank Lombard news agent I says I was sitting in tile smoking car talking with conductor jack IIa Ila gewere we were up grade four miles from independence all of a sudden tile train came to a stop we heard loud voices and pistol shots and saw lanterns flashing we knew the train robbers deroon acro on us glazel backer ran back into the train and warned the passengers they were all looking out of the windows until the robbers ordered them to pull in their heads and keep quiet theroa the robbers had an obstruction on oil the track and signaling I am sure there were a dozen of them ilem although some of the passengers declare there were six sixteen E everybody very body was panic stricken and helpless I ran rati out of the tile car and found men murdering tile engineer and fireman they were poorly in masked but were armed with henry rifles they were swearing loudly and shooting at random some passed into the mail car but did not touch anything express messenger fox in the meantime barricaded barricades barrica ded the express car they then climbed upon the car ear ran ar around aund and b began egan to shoot they then broke into the tile ear knocked him down bv a violent blow on the head and robb robbed edthe safe of everything I ran back to the ng car and hid most of tle money the tile robbers came in and ordered me to lie down I did so They pointed revolvers at mo me and ordered me to fork over I said my money was under tho the cushion they told me to get t and I got it in a hurry you can call bet they went back to the other care cars and maae made a wholesale robbery of rn money olley watches and jewelry some ers soc secreted their money but the dority ity lost all alio X I e ladies were compelled to sit down on the floor and somo some had car ringa rings taken from their ears and many oat their jewelry one man lost n the meantime a freight train was coming up behind us and burton came down the track pitr with a storm of bullets behind him stopped the tile train and probably saved man lives after the cars were cone gone through the robbers jumped off and struck for the timber where their horses lorsch were the men in front helped the trainmen roll off the obstruction and th then enjoined joined their companions I should say wo we stood still half an hour lour frank burton said I was standing on alio e front r on t platform atford of the sleeper r when n t the h tr train an i stopped and I icard heard voices and oaths on the back ilat form I said we are going to be robbed then one of the robbers said wo we aro are comin coming girl in and going through you all I remembered a freight train was just behind us and I heard it coming up I jumped off and ran with my lantern down the track they commenced shooting at me the bullets whistled all around me and struck the rails and stones they must have fired twenty five F shots hots the engineer said for god sake dont shoot the boy he ile is saving the lives of these people then ono one of them th threw rew up one of his arms and cried stop shooting I rolled into tho the cut and waved my lantern the train was stopped stopped only a cars length off when I came back the robbers said have you lost an anything th ingI I answered fifty cents centi it he gave me one fifty for interest then I heard beard one of the robbers say to the engineer choppy foote footer youre too good a man to keep up this bus business iness here is to buy a drink in the mornin morning an and d drink it for jcsse jesse james jame T I warn you you will be killed ivyon if you dont leave this road we are pro going to tear up and burst tho the rock aock island alton roads rowls for they have been offering rewards towards for us weve no po grudge against the pullmans and find will switch off their cars and burn all the rest I am the man who killed winston he ile was too smart and drew drown a revolver burton did not think it was jesse james or any of his gang they all acted green at the business and ho lie thought they were men living in the tile vicinity they all quite young and mad Q e no iao attempt to disguise avi rl ther voices tio tile passengers tell questa substantially bially the same story as tho the above express messenger fox ajio wo refused to give un tip his keya keys to the train robbers at glendale was terribly beaten and cannot live several thousand dollars were taken from the passe passengers agers and from 15 OW to from the car the whole affair was over in fifteen minutes the trainmen made a show of resistance but being unarmed could do nothing the tile place was right in the dense lense woods two roiley from any houam chit kf of police started from kansas kapsas city at once olice with fifty men on hom horseback eback A special train with marshal murphy and posse also went immediately mod lately to the scene of the robbery and largo large bodies of men are being ping sent out from all points in eve every direction the whole country is aroused I and nd intense excitement prevails the leader of the party answers the description of the leader of the party rat t hat robbed thal chicago icay rock N island alid train at it A winstot Win stop july uly ST louis sept post dispatches A kansas city special has the story of L foote engineer of the robbed train three or four miles from independence ju just st before the crossing of the blisso track he be paw a five foot pile of stones with a stick in the top anda and ft red rag upon it and behind a pole stood tho loader luader of the robbers who when whon tho the train stopped said step down off of that engine and do as is I tell you or I will kill you with the revolver p pointed at his head the robber made him get got a coal pick and break down aba door of the express car messenger fox had bild in the wo woods but they threatened roe me if he lie did id not appear so 80 I called on him to come out in a loud voice which he did and they forced him to open the safe they were chagrined at tit not getting eting more booty and jumping on ve fox ox they beat liim him w with i revo revolvers vers fearfully they then marched up tip to alje coaches and covered ua us with re ros at i li i solvers while tile they robbed the passengers they went want through every car and then marched us back to the engine alio Th lender oleader said now get back there we will remove the pile of stones you have been a bully boy a little present for you handing ingae TOO two dollars they stepped over tile embankment and were out of sight in a twinkling what was taken from tile ars was put in a two bushel sad sack winch which was nearly full of watches and other valuables it ia is stated the chief of Poli police celias has arrested six of oatlie the robbers J ST louis sept gov crittenden has issued a proclamation calling on the people to raise en mas masse so a and nt exterminate the robbers robb cra lie ile has lias gone to kansas city to consult with the authorities ties of jackson country rega regarding rd the apprehension of ortho the robbers fully ully LOW 1000 1000 men are organized into a posse pome from kansas city jackson Jack sou ila lafayette clay aitay itay ra clinton and salina counties annare and are now in the field under the command of sheriffs and marshals C camp of the fort scott scotta gulf railroad was accompanying dinv a party of 55 land buyers from new york ork who were going to kansas to make purchases including mr camps cash the robbers obtained from the party between three and four thousand dollars KANSAS CITY 31 oSep the first intimation to western papers of the tile train robbery was a simple te telegram legrain of the fact that the eastbound passenger bertrain train on the chicago an and alton dAlton road was st stopped ped az by robbers completely gut gutted teTI and and in then n permitted to proceed |
