Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-21
Switch on Grand Trunk Tam.
pered With, Is Report.
ENGINE CREW is SCALDED
Strike Sympathizers Restless, Il
Montreal Report.
NO DISORDER OF ANY SORT
Conditions Improved, Declares Com
pany-Perishable Freight L.
Rotting.

TORONTO. July 2l-Grand Trunk ON.
Gals today began investigation of an ac-
cident originally reported to have beer
the result OF attempt to wreck the
companys Muskoka- Buffalo night e1
press.
The engine and two cars of the train
were derailed just outside OF the city lin.
its. The engineer and fireman were Sc
riously. IL not fatally, scalded. Passen.
gers received a severe jolting.
First statements were that a switch had
been tamp ered with. Later il was said
spreading of rails might have caused tbs
accident.
Strike Sympathizers Restless.
MONTREAL. July 21.-Reports HAYS
been received at Grand Trunk railway
headquarters here which indicate rest
lessness on the part OF strike sympa.
thizers.
Statements that attempts were made
during the night TO intimidate Grand
Trunk crews at the Bonaventure yards
led the company to procure special police
squads early today Strong detachments
of police have been sent to Richmond and
Sherbrook.
Statements current last nigh. :hat the
engineers would strike In sympathy,
which for a time caused worry, were
evidently based on kilograms from Chief
Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers. urging his men to remain
neutral and giving specific instructions
that no engineer act as pilot for green
conductors.
Freight continued to be the slogan
ov.I f1z< in. h.. r<~s1r DIax
The $500 striking conductors and train
men continued to be conspicuous by their
absence not only from their posts, which
they left Monday night, but from public
view anywhere.
Their leaders. speaking for them, re.
affirmed that all are quietly awaiting ar
expected time when the railroad will
find resumption of its freight business
impossible and will make such wage
overtures to the strikers as will induce
them to return.
Conditions Improved, Is Claim.
At company headquarters, however. II
was stated that the strikers had been
eliminated wholly from the situation.
A bird s-eye view of the Grand Trunks
four-thousand-mile system from Port
land, Me-, to Detroit and New England
showed distinct Improvement In condi-
tons, 1t was said. 1t was stated that
many important essentials toward re-
sumption of shipping were worked out
during the day.
From the viewpoint of many cities and
towns affected the freight situation is in
creasingly serious. Ice companies are un-
able to get ice. The Canadian Pacific ia
avoiding possible trouble by refusing T.
run ice cars on Grand Trunk sidings, and
much perishable freight seems doomed to
destruction.
At Stratford, Ont, 200 men have been
1nv8
of packing and milling companies de-
prived of supplies. Owing to shortage
of coal the electric light company there
has put out street lights.
The Wabash railroad. affected as 70 ts
section over the Grand Trunk from
Niagara Falls. Ont. to Windsor. Ont. 10
giving nearly complete passenger service
but there is no freight moving
400 Freight Cars Tied Up.
CHICAGO, July 21-The Grand Trunk
railroad strike assumed serious proper
lions here today when II became known
that 400 loaded freight cars are lying In
the roads yards here and cannot be
moved because of lack of men.
An attempt is said to have been made
by the railroad to get 200 strikebreakers
from this city. Only forty-five men were
obtained.
The local 1relSHtHousS IehhoihS SiosS~~'
No freight Is accepted.
No disturbances of any kind have oe-
CURED.
Strikebreakers Weaned Away.
BOSTON. Mass, July 21.-With the pas
senger service restored on practically
every line in New England, the omcias
of the Grand Trunk and Central Yer
mont railroads today turned attention to
moving freight trains and relieving con-
gestion the tie-up has caused.
One freight train OF twenty cars load
ed with beef is on its way to Portland,
where the stopping Of freight tramc
threatened a meat famine.
Because of the strike the German
steamship Rheingraf sail.s from Mystic
wharf today with only portion OF her
cargo.
Reports Of desertion of imported strike
breakers are received from several points.
THE railroad officials claim. however.
they have more applicants for positions
than they can care for