River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-28
STRIKERS IN RIOT
GRAND TRUNK PASSENGER SERV-
ICE ABANDONED AT SOUTH
BEND, IND.
ORDER TROOPS TO BE READY
One Man Shot and Three Detectives
Arrested-Attempt to Derail Train
Is Frustrated by AIertness of En-
gineer.


South Bend, Ind.-Governor Mar
shall Sunday night ordered Capt.
Charles B. Calvert, Company F, Third
infantry, of this city, to hold his
troops in readiness to assemble at a
moments notice. There was spas
modic rioting in the Grand Trunk
yards all day by mobs of strikers and
their sympathizers.
Grand Trunk officials announced
that no attempt will be made to move
any passenger trains through South
Bend, orders having been issued to
cancel all passenger service to or
from the city. Advices from all along
the Grand Trunk system is to the eff
feet that strikers are quiet at all
points except at South Bend
Strikers, or their sympathizers, at
tempted to derail east-bound passen-
ger train No. at Oliy ers, the first sta
zion at which Grand trunk trains stop
when entering South Bend. The
engineer saw the thrown switch just
in time to bring his train to a stop
J. Freel of South Bend was serious
ly wounded by John Peck, a detective
of Battle Creek, Mich, who with
Eldridge Graham and William Mercy
nolds, also of Battle Creek, are under
arrest. Freel was shot in the back
and is at Epworth hospital. A mob
burned two cabooses and attempted to
destroy several freight cars but the
arrival Of police and fire department
fOiled the plan.
A freight train of SO cars was
stalled for seven hours by some one
cutting the air hose and taking the
couplings, and it tied up five passen-
ger trains. The police are authority
for the statement that the stalling of
the freight may not have been the
work of strikers but of men in the
employ of the company, the police
believing that the move was brought
about as a part of plan to get state
backbone of the strike by turning
public sympathy away from the
strikers.
Montreal, Que. - Vice-President
James Murdoch, representing the
general committee of the Grand Trunk
and Central Vermont conductors and
trainmen, in Geographic message to
Ottawa Friday, accepted Minister of
Labor Kings suggestion for arbitra-
ton of the Grand Trunk wage dispute
by board to be named by the govern
ment mutually satisfactory to both
parties involved.
An official statement issued by the
company says:
1.-THE situation continues to improve.
Every scheduled passenger train on
this division is now in operation. Way
freight left Montreal Friday for the
west and a fast freight for the south.
Way freight left Portland and another
left Gorham, N. H."
AS the result of an outbreak on the
arrival of Grand Trunk train from
Toronto Friday, John McMann, it's &C
ting conductor, and M. Donovan,
brakeman, are in a critical condition.
AS the men left their train they were
set upon by hundred or more per-
sons and severely beaten. The in
jured men were carried into a hotel,
which was shortly afterward lombard
ed by stones and considerably dam
aged.
Lansing, Mich.-Acting Superintend-
ent Ehrke of the Grand Trunk ap-
pealed to the street railway commits
sion Friday for state protection of
railroad property during the strike,
claiming that railroad property is be-
ing destroyed in some places, train
service interrupted and strikebreak-
ers threatened. Chairman Glasgow
referred him to Governor Warner.
The latter is at present in the upper
peninsula.