Show THE TRAIN ROBBERY attempted at coolidge Oo station on the A T fc S F last saturday morning in which the engineer was killed and tha the fireman wounded bat the robbers driven off by the BT by western add pres press to tha the HERALD CITY sept 30 the three men named looney chambers aad dean arrested at a late hour last night lavo lave since proved to bo be ille the attempted train robbers they were brought to dodge city by a special train under heavy guard and have been placed in jail but the excitement thero there is BO so intense that they will probably be removed from soma some other othor point daring during the night in the express safe at the time the 0 attempted robbery there was between and and but for the fight made by patterson the robbers would probably have made a big haul a as s before ho he droye tile men from his ca car r the men in the engine had bad thi things their own way the plan odthe of the r robbers or was that while two men inen captured the engine and made the engineer run the tra inthe third man was to kill the messenger then rifle the safe while the train was in motion andall three were to escape at once to some convenient place between coolidge and dodge city the belated train reached kansas city last night and patterson the express messenger makes the following startling statement you are of course aware that the raid took place at coolidge a station 0 on n the an topeka 1 sante fe about ten tion miles east of the colorado state line between two and three this morning there is an catin eating glOuse house in the station and the train stopped twenty minutes aa as usual in order to gire give the pa passengers mengers an opportunity to get a lunch the train was no 4 bound cast east conductor greeley engineer john hilton fireman fire man fadle and baggs emart johnson when the train stopped I 1 put off some railroad mail which I 1 had and there being no express to put offend no further work for me to do I 1 laid down on my box just in front of the I 1 gide door on the side of the car next the car next to the depot after lying a faw few minutes I 1 dropped into a doze and was lying on my back with my arms folded over my breast doth both of the doors on the side of the car ne next atto to the platform were open johnson being seated on the back of ortho the side door looking out on the platform my revolver colts 41 calibre double action lay at my eide aide I 1 had taken it out of its scabbard that I 1 might be ready for any emergency that might arise the pistol lay where I 1 could easily lay hand and upon it alit it was about for the train to start when I 1 heard beard the words come out of there you this woke me and I 1 afterwards learned that the remark was made b by conductor greeley it to a man wb whom in by he noticed tice d getting into the car when I 1 woke I 1 naturally glanced down the car and saw standing within four reef feet of roe me a man with a pistol in his hand I 1 was lying with my head toward the front end of the ar and I 1 the man mail near my iny feet I 1 did not say a word in I 1 did not have lime time before he lie covered me with the revolver and f fired ired tho the bullet went over jicy head and I 1 could coul feel the fire burning my face th the e man then alred 9 red a 0 hot out of the tile doorway doorway at the conductor when h he e fired tired I 1 realized that train robbery was going on with the hope of making hie tile robber believe that he had killed me I 1 unclasped my hands 8 which were folded on my boso bosom I 1 and al lowed them to fall at roy my s sido do my right hand fell on the nit muzzle I 1 z e of f m my revo revolver v er and realizing t that it woold wool never do to allow al I 1 0 I 1 Y th the e robber ro abber to sec see that I 1 was about to defend myself I 1 worked my hand slowly into position until I 1 had hold of the tile pistol with the right hand on the trigger the robber did not notice this because it was quite dark in the part of the car whore where I 1 lay mean meantime tho the man was working his hii a way towards wa rd s t the he r rear e ar of the car evidently supposing ho lie had finished me and intended to kill the bagga genian or any one elso else who got in his ills way As eoon poon as I 1 got hold of my pistol I 1 aprans z into a sitting posture and 90 fired at tho the robbers I 1 jumped up then and walked toward t tho man he lie raised his revolver as but it went off prematurely the ball striking the roof ortho car whop I 1 shot at him part of his body was bo be hind bind the stove I 1 aimed at his ills abdomen and I 1 believe that my ball took effect about this time I 1 saw fine another ther man who proved to bo be a pal of the first trying to 14 climb ill at tho side door no sooner had I 1 fired than lie disappeared and the niall man I 1 shot jumped out on the platform from the rear eide side door that was the last I 1 saw of the robbers I 1 calculated that they would come up to tho the front side door and some freight I 1 barricades barricaded barrica ded the door less lem than half a minute after the robbers left my car I 1 heard some shots ht the t rop were ere alred 11 4 mikulos ulos in baltag half as many min uloa I 1 I 1 sto stood ja 4 at t the tile front side door of my car revolver in ill hand band just then conductor greeley camo up have Ilav they ethey gone I 1 asked 1 I think assaid so ao eaid Said debut he but I 1 believe the engg engineer ineer and fireman are hurt burt going forward and returning to ilia he lie said they were both killed the engineer Is I 1 thol shot through tho the heart and the fireman through the neck 1 I then jum jumped ped oil out ton on the tile plat platform forni and saw the engineer and fireman n ly ing on the platform alongside onside al of tile lie engine the fireman was still conscious and wua was taken into a hotel where I 1 bilked with hima him a few minutes es the b dy of tha dead lead engineer was put aboard tho train and ard laken aken to dodge city before tha train left I 1 to he the telegraph office and cent sent a tel er homr to mr patch after considerable delay deyot we got a new engineer and fireman at coo coolidge CooT idge and started again on our journey one bourand forty minutes lato late at cimarron twenty miles distant we meta met a special train from dodge city it conveying to coolidge the sheriff and posse to pursue the robbers 11 marshal mathers and Q S parsons sheriff of bent co colorado arrived late last night on a special train from 0 coolidge 0 ol 01 ida they brought with them john o h Loo ney neya a cowboy belonging to the A arkansas valley stock companas Comp anys ranch lewis chambers also a cowboy vv with ith bates beal on the L X brand both men have exceeding exceedingly in gly hard reputations about coolidge chambers was armed with a 45 caliber revolver which when examined showed allowed to have been recently fired and reloaded looney was unarmed neither Neith ermade made any resistance looney is sullen and re refuses uses to talk while chambers though uncommunicative plainly shows his anxiety and nervousness A large crowd accompanied the ariso neis to jail were it positively known that these wore were tho the right men an effort would undoubtedly be made to lynch them mathers athers Sl thinks he has the right men though the people are told that there is still some doubt A posse osse is in pursuit odthe of the third robber cnown known to have headed southwest an examination will probably y bo be hadbo morrow the officers say the tl 1 e people at coolidge seem to have be been e n badly f frightened allt at latest accounts fadlo fadle the fireman was resting easy KANSAS cin ciry sept 30 T C sew ard the express messenger who follows patterson como come in on the kapta santa fe train tonight to night in conversation he stated the excitement in the neighborhood of the robbery of yesterday morning has subsided somewhat although the feeling was intense lie ile thought the identification of the bandits if captured would be difficult if not impossible the remains of hilton II ilton the dead engineer passed Ts sed through this city en route rattle for milwaukee wis liis ills former home A dispatch from dodge city at ten to nigh estates there th ere are no new developments in the situation the men arrested yesterday are still held for identification it is generally believed the amount of bonev in the express safe was about fireman fadle shot in the neck though badly wounded is doing very well ell |