The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-31
ROADS FEAR
new REIGN
Of TERROR
Plans to Dynamite Ex-
press Leads to In
vestigation.

Chicago, Aug. 31.-Aroused
by the disclosure Of charges Of
plots to wreck trains and the
arrest Of three men in connec.
ton with m alleged plan TO
dynamite the Western express
on the New York Central lines,
the police today declared they
would attempt to round up
numbers Of radicals.
Reports that raids ON radical
centers throughout the country
were planned, was denied ut
: the bureau Of Investigation Of
the department Of justice here.
Detectives today were attempt
ing to learn whether or not there
was any connection between the
plot attributed to the trio held In
connection with the reports that
the Western express was marked
for wrecking and that of four men
held at Gary, Ind, charged with
murder as a result Of the killing
Of the engineer and fireman on the
Michigan Central express train
which was wrecked near Gary. on
Aug. 20. The men held at Gary
were alleged by the police to have
admitted membership in railway
shopmen's unions, whose members
now are on strike.
Look for Dynamite.
The police suspect that a uuan-
tity of dynamite has been obtained
BY plotters for the purpose Of
wrecking trains and damaging rail-
road tracks and buildings, and a
thorough search is now being made
in an effort to find the explosives.
Railroad detectives who repre-.
sented themselves as strikers were
said by the police to have obtained
the first Information concerning
the alleged dynamite plots. They
took their information to George
Collins, chief special agent of the
railroad, who called in the local
police.
The men now held here in con-
nection with the plot alleged to
have been hatched against the
Western express are c. A. Lang
ham, J. J. Boyle and Frank R.
Hartman. All live in Chicago and
are declared by the police not only
to be striking shopmen but Com
munists as we'll.
The plan to dynamite the sx-
press train was declared by inves-
tigators to have been set for today.
although IN earlier plan, tho de-
tectives say, was to have executed
the plan last Tuesday. The arrests
in connection with the Gary wreck,
according to the police, are be-
lieved to have delayed the plans
alleged to have been plotted against
the Western express train.
24.hour Record.
Chicago, Aug. 31.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.) - Dynamite. bullets
and firebrands played an important
part in developments in the rail-
road situation Of the last "a hours.
With four men held on murder
charges in connection with the
Michigan Central wreck at Gary.
Ind, on Aug. 20, in which two OF
the enginemen were killed. prepar-
ing to repudiate their alleged con-
fessions as the first step in their
defense, Chicago police announced
disclosures of a plot to blow up the
Western Express" Of the New York
Central lines. With the arrest OF
three men in connection with the
alleged plot came revelations OF
widespread conspiracy to start
reign Of terror on the railroads, the
police said.
Defense funds for the four men
accused OF wrecking the Michigan
Central train were being raised by
labor organizations and the Min
neapolis Trades and Labor assem-
bly, voted $1,000 towards the $4,000
bail asked for the release OF Will
liam F. Dunn, one Of the radicals
held at St Joseph. Mich, on charg-
es Of criminal syndicalism growing
out Of the recent communist meet
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