The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-14
ERIE ARMS CREWS,
ASKS COUNTY AID
Appeals for Guards. Saving
Paterson Situation Is
Beyond Ii.
THE. TRACKS PATROLLED
Some tOmmutcrS DrUp orr at
PaSSaic and Continue
bs Trolley.
THE. TRACKS PATROLl.ED

rNr1gsoN. y g.. MAY II 'i'he Erie
i,airoad armed IT'S train crews and
scattered detectives from the llackcn-
sack Rivcr bridge ~ RidgewNod to-day
following attempts tN steal dynamite IN
Bclair aud the blowing ny of 800 feet of
track on tn" Noun Hop" Railroad at
wharton
The Erie officials sent kilograms to
County Judge william Seufert. Prose-
,uto, Wendell i Wright and sheriff
Robert Conklin at Hackens,tck demand
ing protection for their properly in Ber-
gen county. They say that they are
unable with their special police and de-
tectives to cope with the sit'!afion.
t'nder sheriff Robert y Heath went
10 Hawthorne Tonight with a number
nf deputies and Will swear IN more to-
morrow 20 patrol th" tracks north of
| i'ernd8e
Commuters In Paterson are IN terror
and hundreds leave the trains at Pas
| sale and 20 home in trolleys rather than
go through the danger zone" where the
/ two attempts were made 10 wreck trains.
/ When an eastbouud train rolled into
! Passaic at 80 O'Clock tonight at
leas, seventy-Hve passengers who
! alirhted boarded trolley cars bound
I for Paterson.
( Some admitted thar they preferred 10
sn.rd ., ex,ra nickel for "A trolley ride
/ rather than take the risk OF having
/ their train run into "A pile of rocks or
/ ,ai,rnnJ iunE
| A railroad man vho said he knew
ub.t bo yy,s t,,l;irr ahou, declared
tba, In. railroad officials are 80 deter
mined to make travel ON the Erie safe
mat ,hev have instructed the track
guards to shoot any man found on the
railroad who will not stop when told.
Passengers ON Train - easthound
! had visions OF another plot to wreck
xvb.n nm erfort WAS made to plug" the
train near the block signal near Az
( peu.'s ,oal trcstlc i'm Paterson at s.l3
o,c,ocl This morning
A the train was creepinu along at
/ ,our miles mn hour the air bralcs were
TANNED on and the train came to 81
s,sndstlll with a Jolt The plugging
was done bv two Young men stealing
a ride. who tried to uncouple the second
and third cars
I Tho mon i,npod off aud ran in the
c.-octior Of the coal wards
Sergeant CoyI. and ten men Wen; 20
the coal pockets and saw two boys on
thc-trrs,ir and commanded them to hait
i They broke into n run and two shots
w.re fred over their heads before they
iumped fifteen or twenty feet into the
,nsl wards and surrendered
The prisoners described themselves as
| William McCrumb Ii wears old of 2GS
Ninth avenue and Michael Sis;a. u
wears old. oe 2S2 East Sixteenth street,
Paterson
To Capt Trace they said they were
heating their way pack from TUXEDO
with SIX others ana stopped tn. tram OF
! their own accord because ihes iidn'.
: Sys,,Y 90 .,aiN "a. he Hae Il, ih. NaTh +.
street station Ttey d"~irt that they
were interested In any wa, in the strike.
pix E!u haywood, chief ot the /. ".
" agitators, said at the Helvetia Hall
meeting this morning that both attempts
tn wreck Erie trains was the work OF
hirelings of the manufacturers, possibly
the detectives themselves"
Police Ueadouerters received an agl-
tated telephone message to-day from
a hardware man in the centre OF Pater-
son who said that a stranger then In
rho stor. had askeu for dynamite. De-
| ,.rtlv.s wore sent on th, double ouick
and m. man Was taken to headuuar-
tors H.. saiJ Iva rsed.d tn. explosive
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