Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1898 — TRAIN HELD UP. [ARTICLE]

TRAIN HELD UP.

A Quartette of Hanked Men Secure $20,4)00 from a Southern Pacific Express Car in Texas. El Paso, Tex., April 30. —The westbound Southern Pacific pussenger train. No. 20 was taken in charge of by four masked men nt Comstock, Tex., at midnight Thursday night, and two miles west of the station the express car and engine were detached and run a short distance. The robbers wrecked the through safe and took the entire money contents, amounting to $20,000, The express car was badly wrecked by the explosion. No one was injured and none of the passengers werf disturbed. The robbers took a trail southward toward the Mexican border and a posse was made up at Del Rio and is now in hot pursuit.