People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1894 — OVERDID THEIR WORK. [ARTICLE]

OVERDID THEIR WORK.

Burglar-Proof Safe SJiattered at jVlcdiapolis, la. Burlington, la., Oet. 3.—A guaranteed burglar-proof safe in the fireproof vaults of the State bank of Mediapolis, this county, was blown almost to atoms Monday morning by a tremendous charge of nitro-glyeerine. The cracksmen forced the vault locks without difficulty. The safe contained £5,000 in gold coin, £BOO in paper currencjq £4OO in silver coin and £2,000 in school district bonds payable to bearer. Tbe paper money was torn into little bits and the coin was battered and bent and scattered to the four winds. Nineteen of the bonds have been recovered intact, the rest being destroyed or stolen. Fifteen hundred dollars in the battered coin was recovered. It is presumed the burglars got the rest.