The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-29
PLOT TO WRECK TRAIN
OF WOODEN co. GOODS
Nineteen Sticks of Dynamite Tied
= to Truck of Car That Had
Stopped in Lawrence.
BUNGLE SAVED THE TRAIN
Plotter Failed TO Place Explosive Near
Enough TO Car Wheel-Explosive
Discovered in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2s.-Enough dyna-
mite to do great damage was found
attached to the trucks OF a freight car
which passed through Lawrence. Mass.
last Thursday and arrived here last
Saturday loaded with paper consigned to
the Garrett Buchanan Company at 1S
South Sixth street.
It's in Lawrence, Mass. that the woollen
mill operators are having 80 much trouble
with their striking employees and 1t il
suggested here that the dynamite was
attached to the truck at Lawrence for
the purpose OF blowing up the train in
which there were thirty cars Of woollen
goods belonging to the American Woolen
Company. the corporation against which
the strikers are making their fight.
Only the fact that the persons attaching
the dynamite to the trucks made mis-
calculation prevented an explosion. The
dynamite, in nineteen sticks. each weigh
ing about three pounds. was attached to
the trucks OF the freight car with in
genuity.
The sticks were wrapped in a heavy
paper and tied to the trucks in such
manner that the wheels OF the car would
rub against the paper as they revolved
and eventually wear in to the dynamite.
The miscalculation Of the person who
placed the dynamite was in not tying the
sticks near enough to the wheel. The
wheel did not wear away the outer cover.
Even with this miscalculation had the
journey been little longer the wrapping
paper would have been worn away and
the explosion would have taken place.
The car to which the dynamite was
attached was Boston and Maine freight
car No. s7.757. 1t left the paper mills OF
Wyman, Flint 4 Son at Bellows Falls. VT.
last Wednesday with a consignment OF
paper for the Garrett Buchanan Company.
The car was relayed to Lawrence. where
1t was made up into a train Of oars Of
woollen goods belonging to the American
Woolen Company. After leaving the
tracks OF the Boston and Maine the train
was given to the New York. New Haven
and Hartford and later to the Central OF
New Jersey and the Philadelphia and
Reading and arrived in this city over the
| tracks Of the last named railroad.
On it's journey from Lawrence this
car passed hundreds OF passenger cart
carrying thousands of persons. Had
thero been tho slightest collision 1t would
not have needed friction to explode the
dynamite. Conclusion would have done
just as well.
Upon the arrival in this city the Cal
was switched to the freight house al
Fifth and Noble streets. It was un-
loaded. and even then the dynamite
was not discovered. Later the car was
switched to the siding on the wharf and
Car Inspector Andrew Straper started
to inspect the wheels.
With the first blow on the wheel bundle
dropped to the ground. Straper carried
it to the freight house and turned it oveI
to Chief Clerk John Hartman. An in
spection revealed the first stick Of dyna.
mite. An examination Of the car brought
forth eighteen more sticks Of the explo.
sive. They were turned over to the
special police of the Philadelphia anc
Reading Railroad. who in conjunction
with the railroad detectives Of New Eng
land are trying to find out where the
dynamite was made and towhom it was
sold