The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-28
Telegram to Captain Boberg
Tells Company to be Ready
Strike Assumed Serious
Aspect Sunday Night
Indianapolis, July "a, 1910.
Capt. Oscar Boberg, Com
pany I, Plymouth, Ind.
Arrange so that Com
pany l can be assembled on
one hours notice for ac-
tive duty.
Thomas r. Marshall, Gov.

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Company | stood at arms all
day Monday, waiting the order OF
Governor Marshall to take train
ior South Bend, where rioting
prevailed last night, over the
Grand Trunk Railroad strike,
which assumed serious aspect
in that city. Repeated requests
were made on the Governor for
troops, to aid in quelling the out
bursts OF violence, in which one
man was mortally injured,
freight cars burned and railroad
traffic tiled up. The above tele-
gram brought the company to-
gether Monday, a. m. ard the
boys were stationed ~ the
Armory Hall, all day awaiting
further orders.
Solrth Bend, Ind, July 25.-
(SpeciaD-F started by SYM
patllizers OF the striking train
men of the Grand Trunk Sunday
evening destroyed three cars OF
a train composed of tilirty freight
cars and caboose. Firemen
fought THE blaze under a guard
of police and special deputies
and endeavored to prevent its
spread, while a crowd of more
than 5000 persons looked on and
several times made threatening
demonstrations.
Several other bfazes were start
ed in the railroad yards while
the larger fire was in progress,
but they were quickly extin-
guished.
The fire came as a climax to
a day OF rioting in which one
man was shot and probably ia
tally wounded, while a number
of others were injured by flying
stones thrown by sympathfzeri
OF the strikers.
Wounded by Mistake.
The wounded man is l.. A.
Freel, night car inspector OF the
Grand Trunk. He was shot
while endeavoring to ascertain
the amount OF damage done to
train by friends of the strikers
He was shot by John Peck OF
Grand Rapids, a guard in the
employ OF the railroad. Officials
Of the road say the shooting was
an accident. Peck is said to
have fired to hold the threatening
crowd ait bay, and was not shoot
ing at Freel.
Fred was hurried to the Ep-
worth hospital, where he was
attended by DIR. ]. II. Gardner
The physician found the bullet
fired from 3S callber army re-
volver, had severed his spinll
cord, and he is paralyzed from
the waist down. There is but
little hope for his recovery.
The shooting of Freel was in
directly due to the capture OF a
freight train by strike sympa h'z-
ers Saturday night. The train
was left stand in the streets until
Monday morning, when it was
moved to the yards. 1t was
found that during the night all
the coupling pins and knucklcs N
the cars had been taken ou., the
air brakes destroyed and the train
literally cut to pieces. Freel
went out to investigate the
damage, and, in the trouble fol-
lowing, he was shot.
Many passengers had a narrow
escape from death or injury on a
passenger train lust east OF here
during the afternoon, when the
strike sympathizers are sad TO
have tried to derail it. The eL-
gineer saw that a 'Switll had
been thrown and succee ied
IN bringing his train to stop
in time to prevent an accident.
Traffic Completely Tied UP.
Sunday night all night
through South Bend was totally
tied up and officials here have
notified Chicago and Battle
Creek, the division points, not TO
send any trains this way. Near
MlShawaka about five miles east
OF South Bend, two passenger
trains were held up, officials fear
ing to allow them to enter the
city. Passengers on the trains
were compelled TO leave them
and come into the CITY on electric