Killed The Engineer

Whitehall, Hls., June 27.- This town, located on the St. Louis división of the C, B. and Q. railway, was the scène of an attempted hold-up of a C, B. and Q. daily express train leaving St. Louis at 7:50 p. m. and bound for Rock Island. The train, consisting of an express and mail car and three coaches, Frank Heffner being the conductor and Fred Dempsy the engineer and George Savag-e the fireman. The train left Whitehall at 10:35 p. m., seven minutes late. About five minutes later, just after the train had stopped for the Chicago and Alton railroad crossing, about threequarters of a mile north of the town, and had restarted, a man who had evidently boarded the train at the crossing was noticed by the fireman climbing over the rear of the tender, and the fireman seeing him, started back to see what was wanted, but upon noticing the man masked and pointing a revolver at him, he sprang back into the cab and through the front window and lighted upon the running board of the engine and escaped harm. But the engineer, Fred Dempsy, was not so fortúnate, for upon turning around and seeing the man, he jumped down from his seat in the cab and the masked man shot him in the right side and leaped from the train near a wagon road leading to Rood House. The fireman saw only one man, but some of the passengers on the train elaimed to have seen two men going up the wagon road after the shooting. It is thought that if they meant to holdup the train they were frightened away. The train was immediately stopped, and the engineer, being unconscious, was carried to the baggage car and the train was backed up to Whitehall and a physician sent for and two bloddhounds were immediately put on the trail and the murderer is expected to be apprehended. The engineer did not regain consciousness and died about 10:55 p.m. Later. - Frank Ainsworth and Bill Jackson of Roodhouse are the men who held up the fast express. They have been arrested.