Daring Desperadoes

St. Louis, Dec. 10.- Six masked men held up the cannon ball, the through express on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, which le(t this city at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. at a point about flve miles from the Union station, in the suburbs. They boarded the blind baggage at the Frisco crossing, two miles this side of Bates street, which is a secluded and unprotected crossing. Two of the robbers covered Engineer Green and compelled him to stop the train. Conductor Hall at once carne forward to ascertain the cause of the delay, when two more of the bandits covered him and ordered him into the smoker, the flrst coach. While these robbers kept guard on the passenger coaches the remaining two proceeded to blow open the express car with dynamite. As it was a through car the safe contained little or nomoney and the robbers secured nothlng after 11 their efforts. Tackled the Wrong Train. Realizing that they had mistaken their train, the bandits did not tarry long and were soon fleeing to the woods close at hand. The train then proceeded and reached Iron Mountain Junction only twenty minutes late, but with scores of badly frightened tourlsts en route to the sunny south. The hour being early, none of the passengers had retlred for the night and the tremendous noise from the dynamite explosión occurring shortly after the stopping of the train was calculated to unnerve even the most fearless. W. J. Egan, the express messenger, is authority for the statement that the Pacific Express company will not lose a dollar. His statement is corroborated by the railway officials at the general office in this city, who state that the only loss sustained by the railway company is the damage to the express car. FATALLY CUT BY A TKAMP. Knight of the Roacl Attarks au Euginecr and Fireman. Greenville, Hls.. Dec. 10.- A pitched battle occurred at Sorento Wednesday night between the flreman and engineer of a through freight on the Clover LeaL line and B. I. Clemens, a tramp who was steallng a ride from Charleston. Clemens was put off by the trainmen at Sorento and he attacked Fireman Cook and the engineer with a knife, seriously wounding both. He was, after much effort, captured by the city marshal and a posse of citizens, but before submitting to arrest he cut the city marshal on the head and back, and then plunged the knife in his own body, near the región of his heart. He was brought to Greenville and turned over to Sheriff McAllister, who, in attempting to place him in a cell, was furiously attacked by the prisoner. Deputy Sheriff Wright and a squad of citizens were summoned 'and he was finally subdued. A physician was then called to dress his self-inflicted wounds, but he fought desperately and would allow no one to approach him. After several hours' struggle he was bound and his wounds dressed. The prisoner fears lynching and threatens self-destruction. He is a man of powerful proportions and appears to have a fair education. He has in his possession a mechanieal engineer's 11cense and his initials, "B. I. C," are tatooed on his left torearm. He will be held here until the March term of the circuit court. It is thought that the engineer cannot recover from his wounds. Kobber Mukes a Confcssion. Cedar Rapids, Ia., Dec. 10. - A young man giving the name of George Watson was arrested near Walford, Iowa county, Wednesday aiternoon as one of the parties who attempted to hold up Agent Benedict at Falrfax on Monday evening. When brought to this city late Wednesday night he confessed to his part in the affair, and said the man who was killed is Frank Wolfe, lately released from the Joliet penitentiary, and who also served a term at the bridewell. The fellow admitted on close examination that Henry Schultz is his real name; that he lives at the Arlington in Chicago, and is a cook He is about 5 ft. 10 in. tall, and says he is 21 years of age.