Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-23
Men Arrested For Blowing
Up Canal Lock.
MILITIA ON THE GROUND
Fear an Attempt at Rescue by Grain
Sh0velerS- A Scheme tn Give the
Scoopers Of Buffalo Some More
Work.

Buffalo, N. Y, April 22.-A Niagars
Falls special to the Express says.
l. Chief Young of the Dominion police
mas a force of a dozen regular police.
men, ECO armed deputies and 20 militia.
men guarding the Jail at Clifton; > Ont.
ed with blowing up Lock No. A., al
Thorold on last evening. The extraor-
binary precautions taken for the guard
ing or the men is the result of a rumol
to the effect that 800 Buffalo grain snov
elers were on their way here to liberate
The prisoners. The militia of the district
the attn battalion. was warned cor SER
vice. Later Mayor Slater. with two other
magistrates. made a demand for a de-
tachment of the battalion to guard the
Jail on the ground that the police would
be pOwerleSS.
Captain Vandersluys at once called
out a detachment of 20 men under a
sergeant. they were served with 10
ROUNDS of ammunition each and are
now doing guard duty at the pail. Last
night it was thought the men who blew
up he lock were Boer sympathfzers,
To-day the opinion has changed. 1t is
now believed the .ynamiters were agents
for the Buffalo grain shovelers and
sought to blow up the lock for the pur.
pose of disabling the passage of grain
through the canal from Port Colbern to
Montreal. With the canal closed, it is
argued, the scoopers of Buffalo might
1dNc tIIOI6 NOEh Ildn InoY WOuI0 nav
with the canal open.
1t was said in the Clifton tonight that
the grain hammers of Buffalo had organ
lied for the raid and that they would
reach. the Canadian town tonight. Not
knowing what to expect after UGH an
unusual thing as the assault on the lock
yesterday. the authorities determined
to take no chances. 1t is believed tina
the force at hand will be able to repel
any party that may attempt to release
the men from Jail. That such an at.
tempt will be made is not generally CRED
tied. To-day Chief Young brought from
Thorold to Clifton two men who positive
ly identified the three men in Jail as the
men who were seen to u away from the
vicinity of the lock after the explosion.
The men were arrested between Thor
old and Clifton. They were armed but
made no attempt to hoo Two CT the
men, Walsh and Nelson. have been
around the Canadian side of the river for
several days. The third man, name I'M
had a room in Clifton and fire.
quently met the other two, who came
across the river. Nelson says he is q.
mechanic from Philadelphio. Walsh
says he is a bartender from Washington,
D. C.
To-day the method of procedure Of the
dynamiters was learned in full. The men
made several sticks of dynamite into W.
bundles These bundles they suspend
ed by ropes at points about half way to
the DOltOIl Oh the lock at the middle, nalt
from gate to gate. Wires We're found
after the explosion that lead to the belief
that the dynamite was exploded by cleo
tricity. The men are believed to have
carried the batteries away with them
and to have disposed Of them during the
light. AS large quantities of grain pass
over the steel arch bridge of the Grand
Trunk 1T is said the men would have
blown it up if they had been able to es-
cane arrest.
The most careful inquiry tonight has
failed to discover anything to indicate
a movement Oh Buffalo. grain shovelers to
release the dynamiters.
President Mcmahon of the Grain
Shovelers' union branded the story as
ridiculous.
Ottawa. Ont, April GA. J.. Blair,
minister of railways received a dis
patch to-day from Superintendent
thompson of he elland canal, stating
that the damage to the canal was trifing
and that no delay would occur to the
opening of the canal to navigation as al
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