Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — A DARING “HOLDUP.” [ARTICLE]

A DARING “HOLDUP.”

Ruthless Bobbers Riddle a Train With’ Ballets. Perhaps the most daring and fearless! irain robbery ever perpetrated in this] country, was executed by the notorious! Hook gang of desperadoes, at Correta, al tiding five miles south of Wagoner, L T J Saturday night. The Kansas City & Memphis express train was wrecked and! irain gutted by the desperadoes, whoj must have fired two hundred shots during* the time of the holdup. The train wasy running twenty miles an hoar. When) .vithin one hundred feet of tho switch a| man came out from behind an embank-] ment and threw tho switch for the side! track, running the train into a string oil mipty box cars. Engineer James Harris applied the air brakes and re?ersed the engine. Tho robbers com-} menced firing at the engine and coaches. As soon as the train stopped two of the robbers commanded the engineer and fireman to come down, and as soon as they had dismounted marched them in front of them to the baggage and express cars. Here they forced express messenger Ford to open the doors by perforating the side )f the car with bullets. Several passengers were wounded, one fatally. Tho amount of booty secured by the robbers is unknown, but they got all there was to be found. The entire gang escaped. Six of the men passed through Wagoner on Suniay and showed no fear of arrest. ) “Your turn will come soon,” said tho impecunious young man as he Inspected liia cuffs.