The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-10
sDYEAMITE PHILADELPHIA CAR
DOZEN PASSENGERS TCWRLED
.tBRG r ~ EXPLOSION.



PaILApEL PBIA. March D 4 trolley 81
was dynAmitSd tonight Al GcrmantowH
avenue and Logan str~at The explosion
lifted the car Oh the track end ret IL down
crossways with orasa that smashed
every window psac and hurled tw"niy
rassengens against tho seats and side
of he car
The conclusion broke window glass "a
dosens 81 the houses along the avenue
end produced a panicky feeling IN the
neighborhOod thFt listed for hours
II was remarkable that none OF ;hs peo-
PIE IN tho car was seriously hurt
Apparently a dynamit" cartridge with
= r-stcuss,on can had lre~n fixed To rail.
A wheel ol the car rolscd over the can
and the charge lot 90. throwing up the
front end of the ca 80 a horse rears.
Ths roar or the explosion vas heard n
mile away
That part Of tho ca- line ~ poorly
lighted. Tho motOrnan. sending his
chr along a. moderate speed. observed
not hing s,Isptcious The hHa Hi ght'a gla -
did not fall sau&rely upon the RI l. There
vAs nobody tho mo, orman "a 4, IN the
i1mediafs e:Ehbo hood
When the car vas directly IN front of
the home ~ Dr william 2 H~snon AZ
as Germantown avenue u struck the
dynamite cartridge The motorman was
thrown hack against the car front an hard
that the hack of his head WAS bruised and
he was stunned for several minutes.
The passengers. half a dozen Of whom
we're women. were pitched out ~ their
seats To their hands and knees aud dashed
aGainst the car sides or to the floor. They
we're thoroughly frightened. much more
srared than hurt. The shouts Of the men
ami lhs screaming Of the women brought
people who had already bcen alarmed
by the roar Of the explosion foCking to
their doors and windows.
In q few minutes several thousand
people we've ma-s~d around the wrecked
car. Ambulance calls were sent TO hos
pitals bat nobody needed the attention Of
the doctors As il turned out The police
came with rush from the city Hall and
nearby stations and raked the ground for
possible clues. None was found
Thry were told ny persons in the neigh
borhood that four mon had been secn
standing in this car track just before
the car came along. The police sought
Cor q description OF these men. but were
unable to get anything tangible to work
on. Threats have been made several
times during the GER strike that II the
p. n. r. insisted on running cars IN Ger
mantown avenue that dynamu' would
be used
On account of IN" rIO;ing las, light m
FRANKFORT 7J0 extra POLICEMEN were
sent to that section tonight and will he
kept on duty there for ter days Some
81 them found work TO their hands ~
SION a. they 90, on the job
4 car was stoned ard its windows
smashed. Another car was bOmba rded
with her bottles and bricks 4 motor
man was struck with stone and his face
cut None Of thss. matters were serious
bun they indicated tn. ugly feeling that
b prevalent IN tn" Frsnkford section.
There n. though. ths possibility ~
serious trouble II tha msa who -tTucS
to-day ~ the Baldwin Locomotive Works
make good their declaration 10 march To
the City Hall cheering for the unions
There are upward ~ 100 ~ these men
On strike. big husky fellows who would
a. soon fight a. not They hsve planned
20 make a demonstration To show their
oympathy WIN tne unions
he police are preparing to break up
sny such demonstration. The BALDWIN
mslcontents have been egged on by the
union leaders who have assured them that
they have right TO march through the
streets no matter what tn. Director IT
Public Safety says about II
The union labor chiefs here are Ranking
on the threa' II statewide or national
strike. They came o'It INT" the open
to-nigh, and ADMITTED IT.
Their plan y, h-na|lv. - drive the
rfsrchants ard business interests not
only 81 Philadalphla bY, of the whole
country, into a panic - that tremendous
pressure will - brouEhJ 10 heaT IN the
Philadelphia RAPID TRANSIT tompany to
treat with ITS former employees
Prats and Murphy and Mahou. the
principal leaders II the sympathetic
strike. knew last Monday night that
they we're beaten and that labor unionisni
IN this city was on the verge Of disute-
grafton.
While they we're boast ing that rs OoO
usu had struck they knew from their
private figures that the total was under
5000
hNlNNNAsAhN
10 the UNISON leaders was a study Of per-
centages. They realized that IN nine
teen mills out of twenty less than % per
cent. OF the workmsn had quit.
furthC more. ~ was apparen; 10 Pratt
and hls cullea cues that the Rapid Transit
Company was gaming ground every day
and that the confidence OF the public
wa beng restored
They eaw ths, IN a few more weeks the
company would have all the men !, needed
90 man lie cars without taking the striking
motornen and conductors into considera-
ton and that IL Wa only a question %
very short time before the normal service
Of the company would he restored
These three men and the committee Of
ter n the Central Labor Union. which -
the general strike. conferred and
d~cided 90 send William D. MAhon. presi-
dent OF the Amalsamated Association ~
street and Electrical Railway Employees.
20 the convention of the State Federation
Of Labor AZ Newcastle.
MAhon was told to lay the situation
hefore she federation and 10 ask the State