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, BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN > - ______ SOUTHERN FLYER ROBBED AT WHITE SULPHUR, GA. , Attempted to Blow Up Large Safe but Could Only Get Into the Smaller One. Greenville, Feb. 18.?Southern t-ain No. 36, New Orleans to New York, which passes Greenville at 6:20 a. nj. was held up by five masked bandits, one mile north of White Sul pnur, tia., loo miles from ureenvine, at 2:15 o'clock this morning and the express car dynamited. A bandit entered the express car and attempted to blow open the stationary safe, j containing thousands of dollars, but the attempt was not successful. He then placed a stick of dynamite on a small safe, covered it with dirt and touched off the fuse. The safe was blown to atoms and some $700 was I secured. ; On a straight line just north of the 587 mile post D. J. Fant, the engineer, was induced to stop his engine by the waving of a red light across the track, some 300 or 400 yards ahead of the engine. He applied the brakes and slowed down, j picking up a man, who told him that there was a broken rail ahead and tl^t it was being repaired. At the same time a bandit climbed up on j the other side of the engine and the two covered the engineer and the fireman with revolvers, ordering them un tKoir V?o-rtHc One nf thp W - bandits informed the engineer that it meant a hold-up. Leaving his partner to guard the engineer, the bandit got down and went back to ' rob the express car, telling the engineer before he left that when a certain signal was .given for him to start the engine. Couldn't Break Coupling. The bandit attempted to cut loose the express car, but failed. He then - severed the air pipe and went back to the engine. He ordered the engineer to get down and bring along a 6hovel. Going back to the express car, once more the express messenger was ordered to open the door. When the messenger failed to respond to the order, the bandit threatened to blow up the entire car with a stick of dynamite which he held ? in his hand. The door was thrown open and the messenger was covered with a revolver and ordered to throw up his hands. A bandit then entered the car ana placed a stick of dynamite on the stationary safe and touched off the fuse. The explosion failed to accomplish the desired results, and he turned his attention to a small safe close by. A stick of dynamite was placed on top of it and dirt piled on top. The exploison completely wrecked the safe, damaging the car and express matter. A number of packages were taken out of the demolished safe by two ban? dits, a second one having entered the car in the meantime. After having looted the safe the engineer was told that he could go. He went back to his engine and pulled on up to Lula, minus a fireman and a flagman. The former, a colored man, was made to get down from the engine and flee through the woods by the bandit who was left in the cab when the engineer was carried back to the express car. When the train stopped the flagman dismounted and went back to flag later trains. Conductor Also Covered. When Engineer Fant was taken "back to the express car by the bandit he called to Conductor Mooney, who, he thought, was in a coach a short distance back. The conductor, however, was under cover of a bandit's revolver from the time the train stopped. When the train first stopped Conductor Mooney stepped to the ground to see what the trouble was, and was immediately covered by a bandit. Having looted the express car, the bandits backed off, keeping their revolvers on the trainmen all the while. When they had gotten into the woods they turned about and beat a hasty retreat. At 7 o'clock this morning No. 36 rolled into the Southern passenger * -station on Washington street, only 40 miutes late. Every window in the express car was blown out and a portion of tne roof was torn off by the explosion. Engineer's Story. Engineer Fant, speaking of the kold-up said: "I was engineer on train 36, engine 1315, Atlanta to Greenville, this morning, Feburary 18. On a straight line just north of 587 mile post near White Sulphur I saw a red light swing across the track about three or four yards ahead of me. I applied brakes and stopped at the light and picked the man up. He told me there was a broken rail ahead. I only saw one man at the start, but as the train came to a stop, a man got up on the engine on the other side, with drawn revolvers, and ordered the fireman and myself to t throw up our hands and then searched us. They told us it was a hold-up and one man stayed on the engine to guard me, while others went back i ESCAPED IX AUTOMOBILE. After Holding Up Train Robbers Made Good Their Escape. Gainesville, Ga., Feb. 18.?Southern Railway train No. 36, the United States fast mail, bound from New Orleans to New York, was held up by five masked men at White Sulphur Springs, four miles from here, at 3:15 o'clock this morning. The express car safe was dynamited and tht contents stolen. First reports said more than $100,000 was taken, but Southern railway officials declare the amount was $700. None of the passengers were molested. The robbers escaped in an automohilp and ata new thonerht to be in Hall county, probably bound for North Georgia, where pursuit would be difficult. A posse is on the trail. The robbers nroke down the doors of the railroad station at White Sulphur, bound the night agent and set the signal for the train to stop. As the locomotive slowed up one of the men entered the cab and ordered the engineer to proceed to Lula, a small station several miles away. After a stop was made members of the gang entered the express car and while one held the conductor and express messenger at the point of guns others blew open the safe, obtaining the money. Agent Terrill of the Southern Express company, Deputy United States Marshal Landers, Detective Haucce of the Southern Railway and Deputy Sheriff Little are with the posse with blood hounds in pursuit. Posses returning to-night from the country surrounding the scene of the hold-up this morning report no trace of the robbers. To-morrow the man hunt will be, taken up again and will be in charge of detectives of the Southern Railway, Southern Express company and county officials. Descriptions of the robbers secured here indicate that one of the men was rather tall and stoop shouldered, with stubby mustache and apparently about 40 years old. Another is described as looking and acting fike a countryman. All the men wore masks. Members of the main posse which started in pursuit of the bandits this morning state that the bandits evidently were prepared to throw dogs off their scent, for red pepper had been dashed over the trail at intervals. to rob the train. They first attempted to cut the express car off and told me as soon as I got a signal to go ahead. They worked some time trying to cut the car off, but not being familiar with cutting loose they failed, except to cut the air off the train pipe. One of the men came back to the engine and told me they could not cut the train loose, and made me go back then to the ex press car. The express messenger had not opened the door. Threatened Messenger. "They said unless he did open the door the train would be blown up with dynamite, a stick of which he had in his hand at the time. I began to call Conductor Mooney, hoping that some of them could come out to the rescue. The express messenger opened the door and they made him throw up his hands. They went inside and one put a stick of dynamite 4. ~ 4.-U ~ .... ~ ~ J ~ J ~ J lu tut: sLciLiuiicii"v aa.it; auu trApiuut;u it. The explosion did not accomplish anything. He then took another stick of dynamite and put it on top of the litle safe, piled dirt on it, touched off the fuse and blew that safe all to pieces, damaging the car and express. I saw them take several packages out, two bandits be- . ing in the car at the time. After having taken all the money and packages out of the safe they told me I could go. "I went to the engine and pulled on away up to Lula, leaving my fireman and the flagman. The bandits made the fireman leave the engine before I was taken back and I have not seen him since. All of the men were masked." A message received in the city yesterday afternoon from detectives at A^hite Sulphur stated that four suspects had been captured near that point, after a hard fight. The description of one of the suspects corresponded with the description of the lone stranger who shot to death the police sergeant, Oliver S. Gunnells, and wounded Private Johnson, when the two attempted to arrest him in the Columbia & Greenville railway station early Wednesday morning. * The request was made that Johnson come to the scene and identify the man if he can. The wounded officer got out of bed and and left Greenville on southbound train No. 37. Three toughs were pulled off a freight train yesterday at Greer, between Greenville and Spartanburg. Thy were brought here and locked up. A touch of gruesomeness is lent to the story of the dynamiting of the express car. A corpse was aboard the car and a dynamite blast ripped the coffin open. The identity of the corpse could not be established by any one here. A PRISON CONTRAST. Difference in Treatment of Man Who Stole $100 and $100,000. A man hanged himself in a penitentiary not long ago. He was a convict. In a period of five years he had been allowed to leave his cell only two times, except for the few minutes of each day in which he was turned Into the narrow walled alley at the rear for "exercise." His cell was 8 by 12 feet in dimensions?the size of the average grave lot. In this room ho had been forced to eat. sleeD and work. His meals were passed to him through the grated door. The materials for his daily task were handed to him in the same manner. He made cigars, I believe. In the evening the product of his toil was taken from him in the same fashion. Three times each day a rude tray was passed through the bars with his prison fare. On Sundays the music and sermon of the chapel senvice floated to him down the corridor, for he was not even allowed to leave his cell for worship. At the back of his cell was a small enclosed yard, perhaps 10 by 20 feet in size. If so inclined he could spend 20 or 30 minutes here out of every 24 hours. High walls surrounded it on every side, so that by no possibility could he see or be seen by his neighbors. Come with me across the State of Pennsylvania to another Commonwealth that I may leave with you a picture from an opposite angle, which may emphasize further the needs and possibilities of the great, throbbing field into which the American Prison Association is burrowing. The prison doors have closed behind us again, but we are not meetinga sceneOf darkness anddampness. There is no trade or hardship or horror in the picture before us. There are no barred windows in the room that we have entered. No grated door clangs at our shoulders. No foul or musty odors here, no cold stone floor and thin straw pallet. A genial cheery light streams into the apartment from between lace curtains and our feet sink into a soft 4-U * rrr 1 1 V ^ ~ ~ i ug. v^u tut; waxi& iiaug tJAptfusivt; pictures, and on the shelf before us are several pieces of costly bric-a-brac. In the corner of the room there is a large roll-top desk, and seated before it in an easy chair is a man dressed ina fashionable business)suit smoking a cigar. At his elbow is a stenographer, to whom he is dictating answers to the heap of letters before him. This man, like that other figure at the Eastern State penitentiary, is a convict. Like that other convict he has stolen' and has been sent to prison for theft. The first man was a burglar and got away with something less than $100 worth of spoons and cheap jewelry. The second man was a bank president and got away with something more than $100,000 in cold cash and gilt-edged bonds. rne nrst man would nave oeen penniless had he lived to leave his cell. The second man, it is said, has hidden enough of his plunder to insure him a life of luxury after his sentence. The man?the burglar?received 10 ypars for his $100 loot. The secohd mam?the bank president ?received five'years for his $100,000 loot. But we are not now going into the ethics of the law?or the injustice of Justice.?Charles Ware, in World To-day. Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association?think of it. How the merit of a good thing stands out in that time?or the worthlessness of a bad one. So there's no guesswork in this evidence of Thos.- Ariss, Concord, Mich., who writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for 30 years, and its the best cough and cold cure I ever used." Once it finds entrance into a home you can't pry it out. Many families have used it forty years. It's the most infallible throat and lung medicine on earth. Unequaled for lagrippe, asthma, hay-fever, croup, quinsy or sore lungs. Price 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Peoples Drug Co.* Bamberg, S. C. Physician Must Appear. Spartanburg, Feb. 15.?Dr. DeFoix Wilson, a prominent physician of the city, will be tried in this city in the police court to-morrow morning on the charge of failing to report a contagious disease. The case in question was one of smallpox, ad it is stated to-day that two other cases have resulted from coming in contact with this disease. The store of A. J. Bishops in whose family the disease developed has been closed and fumigated by order of the health authorities. Intoxicated Negro Burned. ATo 1 lrtrr TTah 1 Fi A faw nicrVitc aUUIIVI J ) Jk Vfc/? X V? xX. iV If ago Henry Clarke, colored, while intoxicated, lay down in front of a large fire and went to sleep on the hearth. Late in the night he was discovered by his wife, with his clothing burned nearly off, and before help arrived she succeeded in extingiushing the flames, but he was severely burned all over his back and neck. He is still in a serious condition. MORGAN STOPPED A TRAIN. Flagged Freight to Help Bishop Keep Engagement. Bishop Potter was spending a Sunday afternoon with J. P. Morgan, at the latter's country place, at Highland Falls. The village of Highland Falls is a way station on the West Shore road a few miles below West Point, and the fast trains pass it by without a stop on their first long jump away from New York. This is not a matter of much concern to the financier, who always goes back and forth on his yacht; but on this occasion, says the Methopolitan Magazine, it troubled the bishop. He was loath to travel on Sunday, but he had an im portant engagement to keep in the city that night, and he remarked that he would have to take a local train, which left a little while before supper. "Oh, no," said Morgan, "there's a train after that one. Of course you'll stay to supper." "I don't see any train," objected the bishop, and I really must get to town in time to conduct an evening service." "There's an express," replied his host, disposing of the matter?"I'll have it stopped for you." An hour or so later, in the thick darkness of an autumn evening, Mr. Morgan took the bishop in his carriage down the steep road to the railroad station. No lights shown from the building. The coachman got out and tried the door and rattled it. Then he came back and reported that the agent had gone home for the night. The sound of the approaching trafn was heard, faintly, but growing louder. "Break in the door," ordered Morgan impatiently?get a big stone and smash it!" He and his visitor got out of the carriage and looked on; finally the door gave way. Morgan went inside and after scratching a number of matches, found a lantern and lit it. "All right, bishop!" he called cheerfully, "come ahead," and he walked out to the middle of the track and waved the light. With a horrid screeching and squeaking the train stopped. It was a freighter; a very long freight. Out of the cab leaned the surprised engineer, and from the caboose some/\??/\ tt a f V /-v vv 11 ci x: in tiic laiavvaj uai n.ucoo tuc conductor came running up, very angry. "What do you mean by stopping this train," he demanded fiercely. Mr. Morgan, still holding the lantern, told him who he was. "1 don't care who you are, you've got no business?why," he choked, "there's an express train following us?you'll have a collision?!" But Mr. Morgan paid no more attention to him or his remarks. "All right, bishop," he was saying gently, "you get right in the caboose and ride to New York." Which the bishop did. Man Mangled by Belt. Anderson, Feb. 15.?J. Edgar Shumate, son of H. S. Shumate and brother of J. S. Shumate of this city, was horribly mangled in the Moneynick oil mill at Pelzer this morning about 1 o'clock, and at 9:30 o'clock to-day he died from the injuries. Mr. Shumate was night superin tendent and when fire was discovered in the mill shortly after midnight he went into the engine room to help put out the flames. In an attempt to save the large driving belt he stepped into the fly wheel pit to remove the belt, when the machinery was started. He was caught and latally crushed. Mr. Shumate was removed at once to Pagett's hotel and medical aid summoned. Dr. J. L. Gray of this city with Mr. Shumate's father and brother went to the wounded man immediately and everything possible was done to ease his suffering and save his life. Edgar Shumate was about 25 years of age and was highly regarded by all. His father has been connected with the Sullivan Hardware company for years and his brother, Jas. F. Shumate, has been cashier of the Citizen's national bank since its organization several years ago. The news of his terrible death came as a great shock to the whole city. 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