New-York tribune., 1922-09-01
Rail Disorders
Grow as Reds
Face Roundup
Bridges Dynamited and
Workers Are Attacked
Throughout the Western
and Southern States
3 Held i'll Chicago Plot
Detectives Uncover Plan
to Wreck Express ON
N. Y. Central Near Gary

1hICA0O, aug. -D1SofQerS ana
the damaging OF railfcad property by
burning and dynamitihg bridges on
several lines marked the strike of the
shopmen throughout the country.
Workers we're attacked and guards at
various points reinforced.
Eight trestle Bridges on the St Louis
& southWe 'ern Railroad between Tex
arkana and Stamps. Ark. were set afre
at almost the same time about 3 o'clock
this morning. Only three Of the struc-
lures were damaged seriously, the
other five being merely charred
Local officials Of the Cotton Belt"
Line, as the road is called, say the
blazes must have been 0 fincendiary
origin. The bridges werefrepaired to-
day, but it will be several days before
the line is reopened The longest Of
the damaged Bridges was 1000 feet anG
the shortest about 200 feet long.
Arrests and general cleaning
of radicals among striking railroad
shopmen we're promised to-day by po-
lice, following the arrest of three men
in Chicago, in an alleged plot to dyna-
mite the Western Express" of the
New York Central Railroad between
Gary and Chicago. The supposed plot
to blow UP the train was uneaFthcd by
railroad detectives posing as strikers.
Frank H. Hartman. 4217 Wentworth
Avenue; J. J Boyle; 5120 South Union
Avenue, and G. A. Lagham. 4848 Lang
ley Avenue, are under arrest.
Seek to Find Dynamite
The men are being questioned in an
attempt to learn il others were CON
n3eted with the plans to wreck the
tlaiii and also to find the location OF
the dynamite which was 10 have been
used. This is. said to be hidden either
III Chicago of Gary. According to the
Investigators, the wreck was ffst sup
posed TO take place Tuesday, but the
arrest of four men in connection with
the Gary wreck postponed The deed.
An explosion of dynamite on the
main line OF the Cleveiard, Cincinnati,
Chicago & st. Louis Raj rua,. at .Afiing
ton Heights, suburb . Cincinnati
derailed the tende. OF work tlain.
a passenger train had passed t. iew
minutes before the explosion.
An attempt was made to blow up the
eommissary Of the Illih 3 C5Atrai
Railroad at padueah, Ky. a:';1e t..5io-
sion blew hole in the g ana a..
the building.
Switch Tempered with
A fast train on ths Chia ta {. .1Iqr
ran into an open ~ teh at C3yvl. IL,
near Bloomington Investigators salu
the switch showed evidence Of having
hoen tempered with.
Attempts to blow u3 The tracks or
the Chicago & Alt3h sad . bfidse or
the same road near Alton, III, were
discovered when two cans Of dyn. mite
were found by q section Grew.
Automobile lo&os OF poli-s 5atr5lletl
dlstr y III Algiers, q sa0Gt . III ite@
orleans, where fires have occurred III
the homes of raiiroad Workers. I'eilco
reported almost constant String III rail-
road districts and between thirty five
ana forty assaults since tAs shopinens
strike began.
Reedy Booth, guard on the South
efn Railway, died in a hospital a Au-
gusta, Ga, from wounds feee wed
when he and another guard were at
tackled. His companion, i. NJ. Fester,
was killed. The lnen were shot and
cut with knives.
Arrested for Strike Attaek
Walter Adams, a striking casmab,
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn, OH a
charge Of highway robbery and al at
tempt to commit murder, the charges
growing out of an attack on special
agent of the Union Belt Line Railway.
A jury at Shreveport, La. returned e
verdict OF not guilty in the case OF
Richard koenig, a carmaa, charged
with participation in the abduction
and hoSginf of cac checker and u
guard for the v. S. & P. Railway on
the night of August 16.
The homes OF two railroad workers
at Council Bluffs, Iowa, were stormed
WITH bricks And at Clinton. Iowa. q
non-union worker was beaten and
United States Marshal Jap Pickett Was
slugged.
Guards on the Northern Pacific at
Missoula, Mont. we're reinforced by
squad Of deputy United States
marshals following ar attack on
lunkhonse ~slere Twenty-Five werkmen
were asleep. Although volley of
shots was fired into the bunkhoase
none of the sleeping men were in
jured.
sDecial Dsspdsca 10 The Ynfbas,te
BALTIMORE, Aug. 81. The Penn.
sylvania Railroad bridge which spans
the Susquehanna River between
Hayre de Grace and Perryville has
been placed under extra guard and is
being illuminated at nights by power