Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-25
Indiana Governor Holds
State Troops In Readi-
ness For Service
TRAINS ARE GUARDED
Company Officials Are Confident
Solution of the Trouble
Is in Sight.

Cleveland, July 25.-President Lee of
he Brotherhood of Trainmen will leave
here tonight for Toronto. Canada,
where he will meet R. Garretson, pres
ident of the Order of Railway Conduc
tors of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, and several
officials of the Canadian Brotherhood
Tuesday
Detroit, Mich, July 25-Freight traf
f1c has been resumed here on the Grand
Trunk. The company has succeeded in
running six trains in and out of De
troit. There are no signs of trouble.
Montreal, July 25.-Company officials
are confident a solution of the Grand
Trunk strike problem is now in sight.
= All they ask, they say, is adequate pro-
lection of property. and the men who
have taken the places of the strikers.
The strike leaders, on the other hand,
today expressed utmost confidence in
the steadfastness of their ranks and
their ability to force railroad to terms
hy irremediable freight paralysis.
shops at various points closed a week
ago TeOpeEed today.
sEDI.!~ AIi!ItIR in Rcsdlneas.
indianapolis, IND. July 25.--Unless
there is a request from Sheriff Orr at
South Bend there will be 10 troops
sent there TO quen the rioting, accord
ing to statement from Governor Mar
shall this morning. The governor said.
however. he was keeping IN touch with
the situation. and IL there VAS any fur
ther r!ottng the state militia was in
readiness to be sent to-rJgEe scene.
South Bend, Ind. July - Although
q mob is gathering officials OF the
Grand Trunk railroad are determined
to resume train service today at any
cost Yard service will be most likely
TO incite trouble, but the yards are so
filed with cars, many OF which con
tain perishable freight, that switching
is absolutely necessary. The Chicago
Detroit passenger train came in late
and carried a force os armed detec-
tives who sat at open windows with
drawn revolvers as the train passed
through the yards. Ofhcers stood
guard as passengers aighted, but their
presence was not necessary, as no in
reference was offered. Louis Freel,
the strikebrecl1er shot by railroad de-
tectives yesterday, will die, according
to the physicians report this morning.
Fire Started by Sympnthizers.
South Bend, lind, July 25.-Fire
started by sympathizers of the strik-
ing trainmen of the Grand Trunk last
evening destroyed three cars of train
composed of 80 loaded freight cars
and a caboose. Firemen fought the
blaze under a guard of police and spe-
cial deputies and endeavored to pre-
vent its spread, while crowd Of more
than 5000 persons looked on and sew
eral times made threatening demon
strations.
Several other blazes were started
in the railroad yards while the larger
fire was in progress, but they were
quickly extingUished
The fire came as a climax to a day
of rioting in which one man was shot
and probably fatally wounded, while
number of others were injured by fly
ing stones thrown by sympathizers of
the strikers
Wounded by Mistaken
The wounded man is L. A. Free1,
night car inspector of the Grand Trunk.
He was shot while endeavoring to as
certain the amount of damage done a
train by friends of the strikers He
was shot by John Peck of Grand Rap
ids, a guard in the employ of the rail-
road. Officials of the road say the
shooting was an accident. Peck is said
to have fired to hold the threatening
crowd at bay and was not shooting at
Freel
Freel was hurried to Epworth hos
pital, where he was attended by DIR.
]. H. Gardner. The physician found
the bullet, fired from 3S caliber army
revolver, had severed his spinal cord,
and he is paralyzed from the waist
down. There is little hope of his re-
covery.
The shooting of Freel was indirectly
due to the capture of freight train
by strike SympathiZers Saturday night
The train was left standing in the
streets until yesterday morning, when
1t was moved to the yards. 1t was
found that during the night all the
coupling pins and knuckles of the cars
had been taken out, the airbrakes de-
stroyed and the train literally cut to
pieces. FreeI went out to investigate
the damage and in the trouble follow
ing he was shot.
Prisoner SmuEgIed Away.
Immediately following the shooting,
Assistant Chief of Police Joseph s.
Chappell, who was in command at the