People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — TWO OF A KIND. [ARTICLE]

TWO OF A KIND.

A Pair of Bold Train Robberies Net ths Thieves SIOO.OOO. Richmond, Va., Oct. 13.—The northbound passenger train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac railway which left here at 7 o’clock Friday night was held up near Quantico. The engineer and fireman were forced from their engine and the engine was cut loose and sent ahead. The express car was then entered, the messenger covered with* pistols and forced" to'open the safe, runaway locomotive was stopped at Quantico by obstructing the track. It is stated here that there was an unusually large amount of money on the train, probably 850,000. The robbers, seven in number, were masked. The railway company has offered 81,000 reward for the arrest of any of the robbers. San Francisco, Oct. 13. —The bandits who held up a Southern Pacific overland train a few miles west of Sacramento late Thursday night and looted the Wells-Fargo company express car secured over 850,000. They seem to have eluded the officers and escaped with their plunder, which was nearly all in gold coin, and consequently a heavy burden. The astounding success of the hold up was not known un-

til Friday afternoon. Earlier reports of the robbery gave the amount of money taken at 81,500. The robberj’ was a daring one. Four sacks of coin were secured from the express car, and Messenger Paige barely escaped with his life. Three hundred pounds of coin were taken. Engineer Bill Scott, of the Oregon Overland, and his fireman were forced at the muzzle of a revolver to carry coin sacks from the express car to the engine. There the robbers uncoupled the engine and rode off with their booty.