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Show BANDITS MAKE WATERHAUL. Louisiana Train Robbers Frightened Off by Passengers. Shreveport, La. A passenger train was held up near Rayvllle, La., Sunday Sun-day night by five robbers, but it is said that they obtained nothing. The men boarded the train at Rayville, crawled over the tender and forced the engineer to bring the train to a stop, after It had proceeded about a mile. They failed In an attempt to uncouple uncou-ple the passenger cars and then tried to break Into the express car, but the doors were locked. They fired a number num-ber of shots through the window of the baggage car and fired once at the engineer. Nobody was hit. A, railroad flugman. who was a passenger, fired at the robbers and frightened them away. |