Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-27
DYNAMITE ON THE RAIL.
The DastardIy Attempt to hio" -
al Flo Grande Train

The cowardly attempt to blow up the
Salt Lake express train on the Denver @
Rio Grande railway, on Saturday even
ing, says the Denver Ne0S OF SUNDAY,
was the theme of conversation among al
classes of citizens yesterday. The act
was characterized as diabolical and afro
cious by everyone, the workingmen them
selves to a large extent denounclne H.
Receiver jackson, who returned rom
Colorado Springs last evening, expressed
keenly his feelings of Indignation at the
outrage. He said that nothing would De
left undone to discover and bring the
guilty parties to Justice, and to that enc
the authorities and othclals ol 'iie io''''
would use every effort.
The following nIacard was issued yes
terdav and posted in every available spot
along the line of the road
Denver AND RIO GRANpE k an 1HaY
DENVER, May %, 1855
$1,000 REWARD.
The above reward will be paid tor the oe-
lection and conviction, or sucn eVi9enoe
that Will lead to the convlctlon OF Ihe uyno
mite fiends who attempted to wreck tne
Salt Lake EXPRESS train Oh this railway, on
the evening of this date. The same amount
of reward will be paid for the detection ana
conviction of any person or persons WHO
may hereafter attempt to wreck any engine
or train, or who may attempt the destruction
! of any of its bridges or buildings, OF any
other property of this railway.
w. S. JACKSON, Receiver.
Tho COR
vices of forty deputy sheriffs to protect
the company's property and the persons
of their employees on their way to and
from work.
A large meeting of the Knights Of
Labor was held in Goody Hall, on Santa
Fe avenue, Yesterday afternoon, in which
there was considerable speechmaking,
with but little reference to the dynamite
outrage.
Hundreds OF curious people visited the
scene of the explosion yesterday, and
many and various were the remarks made
about the dastardly attempt at train
wrecking Many persons living in the
vicinity heard the report, and some of
them were badly frightened. A number
of strikers were among those who went
out to see what the dynamiters had done,
and were loud in their expressions of de-
testation for the men who would do such
a thing. The more respectable of
the strikers were filled with con-
sternation yesterday at the reports OF the
dynamite explosion, and many Knights
of Labor declared that their order could
have had nothing to do with it. Some of
them made the absurd claim that the ex-
plosion was the work of the Rio Grande
officers themselves, who were trying by
such action to withdraw public sympathy
from the strikers. The most absurd part
Of this supposition is that any act should
be needed on the part of the road to di-
vert the current OF public sympathy, as
there had long ceased to be any sympa-
thy whatever with the strike outside OF
the few disorganizers who are leaders and
the few deluded followers who remain to
them.
1t is clear that not a few of the mem
bers of the Knights of Labor and of those
who felt compelled to join the strike by
quitting work are heartily ashamed of the
manner i'll which the strike has been con
Quoted, and wish in their hearts that the
strike had never commenced. From the
talk on the streets it would appear that
quite a number of these men are afraid tc
90 back to work. The talk of their lead
ers in the assembly meeting and the das
tardly outrage on the Rio Gran6e train
night before last have filled such mer
with fear and lOathing.
1t does not seem as if the great mass
of the strikers sympathized with the VIC
lent measures that have evidently beer
resolved upon by a few blatherskites, anC
} that may lead to great deal of seriou:
trouble. Little knots of the strikers
could be seen on the sidewalks yesterday
busily talking. Some OF these were the
leaders, but most of them were simply
puzzled and frightened over the position
of things. The mass of the strikers dc
, not sympathize with the dastardly dyna
miters, but from the fears expressed by
, strikers themselves it seems clear that
few men connected with the strike Were
the perpetrators of the dynamite out
rage.