Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-15
las VEGAS FEARS
! STRIKE TRAGEDY
$50 Railroad Workers Sur
rounded by Strikers in
Nevada Stockade
MOVE STALLED TRAIN S
Rv associated Press

Las Vegas. New. Aug. II. -- Las
Vegas was NJ Il high tension today. For
two days the town has been without
supply Of tho latter having been low
before tho railroad tie-up started. state
police. armed with machine guns. were
expected almost mOmentarly. but Of
h< ,rs here said they feared an outbreak
before re endorsements arrived.
Approximately 80 persons. railroad
shop employees guards and their wives
and children. were virtual prisoners in
railroad stockadn here early today
and Union Pacific workers we're main
tanning rickets outside.
Governor BOYLE. who has hccn hero
several days. addressed n" strikers latr
yesterday. delivering a warning against
psychic jag" He told them clash
between strikers and non union en-
ployes or strikers and officers might
lead 10 something that would prove
uncomfortable.
Governor Boyle declared the iso'a.
tion of Las Vegas made the situation
one fraught with untold dag" H."
pointed ont that this Ciry i NOR" than
300 miles away from Other cities. with
all transportation facilities cut Oft
District Attorney Harmon t"'d the
men that an outbreak N this time
would unquestionably result in "an-
other Herrin tragedy" ana pl"ad"d
with the leaders to hold hot heads in
check.
Los Angeles, Aug. 1J.--jRy 4. p
ALL passenger trains stalled on the
lines of the Santa Fe Railway by the
walkout of members Of the Big Four
were reported moving today. Efforts
were being made 70 move all freight tied
IN on the same line, and tension fol =
lowing the railroad labor troubles in
the Southwest was expected :" he
lightrned by dispatches from san Rer-
narlino. Calf. announcing the end Of
the brotherhood strike there on the
Union Pacific system.
Santa Fe officials planned ~ start n
least one passenger train 4 day from
Los Angeles to Chicago.
Investigation by Federal officials "i
the rrnort that traiuS We're abandoned
at desert points, with resultant Suf
fer!ng Of passengers a> result Of 4
,orsnirary was said ~ hr progressing
peuartment Of Justice agents wer" u
hcgin an inquiry today a. Needles
Calf.
The United States Grand Jury may b.
called into session 10 hear testimony
on the conspiracy inquiry, II was said
So exhausted a. {" be almost OF
verge Of rollap~" brcHuS" Of their on
forced stay OF nearly four days on the
desert of Needles. 10 ru~>rng"rS or
Santa Fc rratn No. I. which had beer
stalled hv the unauthorized Wa!kOut o.
rho Big Four" brotherhood. arrive,
here.
Passengers denounced rh" nhumanitI
Of the railroad strikers.
81 am an old womRn--too Old to h
made 10 suffer as | have on this trii
because Of greedy workers, said
"Grandma" Madison Wooden. ninety
fye wears old, who was on tho verg
Of a collapS" rs she waN taken from tn
train and placed in a wheel -chair.
T y Norris. tifty-~ev' wears old
of Los Angeles. left h"rc Forr DAYS agC
for the East in search If better hra'fa
He came home last U!ght worse '.Hr
when hr lef'. lie was TOO weak ''
walk.
strikers waS told by Mrs. \. X. N!'r,N
~ Kansas City.
"Some Of them opened mp the.
homes 20 passengers and lnlIted 'h"n
70 take what comforts they could.
Mrs, Nilven said. II ion think an
OF the passenger accepted 'A"ir hos
pitality.