The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-25
RIOTING IN
RAILROAD STRIKE
Grand Trunk Walk-out Has Begun to
Show Signs Of Being
a DIsorderIy
Affair.
ATTEMPT TO DERA1L
Passenger Train Narrowly Escaped
Being Wrecked and Many
Lives Perhaps
Lost.

Climax TO nSHJ and Qay OF TlOI-
ing in the yards of the Grand Trunk
Railway, in which a freight train of
fifty cars was cut into ten sections,
Pinkerton detectives stoned and five
passengers trains stalled for hours. an
attempt was made to derail east-bound
passenger No. s, known as the Detroit
and New York expresses, due in South
Bend at 1:51.
The engineer, by chance, saw the
thrown switch in time to bring his
catastrophe. When he left the engine
to investigate he was stoned by the
mob in which were many foreigners,
but the timely appearance Of police pre-
vented him from being seriously hurt.
Shortly after the attempt to derail
the train Jay Freel, car repairer,
was shot and seriously wounded, 1t is
said, by John Peck, a Pinkerton detec-
tive, who with two companions Ed
ridge Graham and William Mercy
nolds. all of Battle Creek, Mich were
arrested and are now being held by
the police, pending the outcome OF
Freel's wound which is in the back,
close to the spine. Freel is in the hos
pital.
During the afternoon mob which
congregated at Oliver, the first station
Of the Grand Trunk within the limits
of South Bend, burned several ca.
booses, but efforts to fire freight cars
were made fruitless by the arrival OF
detectives and the fire department.
The rioting began Saturday at
10:'S o'clock when freight train OF
fifty cars entered the citv under full
speed, evidently with tie intention of
rushing through South Bend without a
stop. Shortly after passing the station
/ 1T was discovered that the caboose had
beer lost and a stop was made to pick
up the missing car. Almost immed-
lately gang of men ran between the
cars released the air plugs and cut
the air hose, thus makine it impos Nb'e
to move the train AT the same time
the Pinkerton detectives. who showed
themselves, were stoned
| Realizing that the situation was des-
perate, Local Agent G. A. McNutt sent
In hurry call for the police and te1e-
graphed Governor Marshall for troops.
The latter, however. declined to order
out the militia until he was assured
the police were not able to cope with
the situation.
! The standing of the freight train
tied up east and west traffic until af-
ter daylight. five passenger trains he.
Ing held in local yards until 5 o'clock
Sunday morning. Up to that hour the
local police were unable to secure
coupling pins from the company. Be
cause Of this fact the police expressed
themselves as believing that the STALL
Ing of the freight might have been a
strategic move on the part of the
Grand Trunk to make 1t appear that
tney could not secure protection from
local authorities and that it was neces.
sary to call upon the state for troops
TORONTO, July 25.-Through mas
senger and freight trains were run
ming on the Grand Trunk lines TODAY
with comparative regularity. Passen-
ger trains were behind time. due to
the fact that the engineers were or
dered to run cautiously through the
yards for fear of attempts at derail
ment.