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Engine Cab Shot To Pieces

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Tlie engino cab was shot all to pieccs even tho steam gaugo and gauge lanij being shot away and tho grouiul arounc tho wreek oovered with empty shells. 1 was a miracle that many lives wore noi lost, as fullySOO shots were flred. Tin Missouri Paciflo immediately started t special train from from Little Rock carry ing Superintendent W. J. McKee anc picking up deputy marshals. Unitet Statos Indian Agent Wisdom, of Muskogee has ordered all the Indian poüce to report for duty and wlll tako the trail. Con ductor W. Duncan, in charge ot' the rob bed train, when interviowed said: "I was in the sleeper when we struck th cars on the sidetrack. I thought it was a ïead-on colusión, and knowiug that we wero closely followed by a freight I grabbcd a red lamp and started back to flag. When I reached the rear end I was oonfronted by two men, who ordered ma 3ack in tho car. I told them we were closely followed by a freight and would bu run into, and asked them to let me go )ack to flag them. Onn of the men replied, "Well, go on, aud hurry up." 1 started back as iaat as I could, but, being roubled with a.ithma, oould not go very ast. The two men began firing at me, and told 1110 to go taster." Express Massenger W. ï. Ford declined to say anything further than that tho robbers got everythlng they could lay their hands on outside of the through safe. The mail car was not molested. The loss of the express company will not exceed $500, as instructions had been issued to all agonts in the territoiy to rcooivo no money or valuables for this train, and only the company money, romitted by local agents, was carried outslde the through safe. SU of the gang pasaed through Wagoner, going at a slow trot, and seemingly not the least afraid of being captured.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News