Richfield Reaper | 1916-11-04 | Page 2 | Bandits Make Waterhaul

BANDITS MAKE louisiana train robbers frightened off by passengers shreveport la A passenger train was held up near rayville la sunday 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 the passenger cars and then tried to break into the express car but the doors were locked they fired a number of shots through the window of the baggage car and fired once at the engineer nobody was hit A railroad flagman who was a passenger fired at the robbers and frightened thep away