The evening world., 1921-06-24
S|NN. fem MINES
BLOW Up TRAIN;
SIX ARE KILLED
Three of Dead Are Soldiers
Returning From Duty
at Belfast.

BELFAST, June "a ASSOCIATED
Press).-Three soldiers and a train
guard were killed and some twenty
soldiers and an assistant train guard
were injured when troop train
carrying soldiers from Belfast to Dub
lin was wrecked by the explosion OF
Sim Fein land mines Aberyoylc.
near Dundalk to-day.
An official statement issued this af-
ternoon, giving the number Of casual
ties, said that about thirty horses
were killed in the wreck or had 10 be
destroyed owing to their injuries.
Soldiers who saw civilians running
dway from the scene of the wreck
fired az them. shooting to death two
unidentified persons.
Two mines were employed Evil
IDENTIFY they had been placed after
the passage Of previous troop trains
A rail also had been raised.
Some of the bodies of the dead
men have been recovered from the
wreck The train carried 1o4 men
and 113 horses. The soldiers were
under the command of Lieut.. Col
Lord Francis George Montagu Doug
las Scott who was not injured.
Two special trains with soldiers and
horses who had participated in the
reception of King George and Queen
Mary on the state opening Of the Ul-
ster Parliament Wednesday. had
passed over the spot safely. The third
train was wrecked at a steep embank-
ment when the mines exploded, most
of the carriages falling over the en-
bankment. Physicians were immedi-
ately rushed to the scene.
| CORK, Ireland, June 24.-Police
barracks were bombed and there was
general street fighting in this city last
night. one woman being killed and
three girls and three men wounded.
The disorders began at about 7 o'clock
when four civilians in motor threw
bomb at n police station in. Tuckey
Street and another at barracks close
by. The Shandon Street and Douglas
Place barracks where also bombed,
but there was little damage done to
them.
! Large forces of police and soldiers
were also despatched to the spot.
which is in a lonely mountainous
district Just beyond the Ulster bor-
der. Numerous railway outraSes
have been perpetrated here, The ear
Hest reports said that forty men had
been killed and a number injured,
but later reports decreased this num-
Der.
,. The casualties occurred in subse-
quent fusillades between the police
and civilians. In consequence of the
disturbances, all persons are ordered
to remain in their homes after 8
o'clock in the evening, instead of 10,
as heretofore.
DUBLIN, June PA military lorry
was attacked to-day at the junction
of North Frederick and Dorset
Streets, bombs being thrown at the
lorry, two OF which landed in it. The
casualties to the military have not
been reported. but five civilians were
wounded in heavy rife firing which
followed the attack.
DUBLIN. June "a ASSOCIATED Press).
-Eamonn de Valera, the Irish Repub-
llcan leader. was arrested Wednesday
! night near this city and later released
It was definitely established to-day
There had been earlier denials from the
, Sim Fein authorities that he had beer
apprehended.
1t appears certain that De Valera
was arrested, .either in error Of
through overzeal on the part of the
officials concerned, at Blackjack
! County Dublin. He was detained To-
the night and, his identity being
learned, he was released yesterda.
afternoon.
1t is declared here there is no in
ltention on the part of the authori
ties in Ireland to arrest De Valera.