Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-14
Ssengers Marooned on
Sineteen Trains Are
1 Over LOO
|SSES MILLION DAILY
|timated by Fruit Grow
srs of So. California.
/ Mail Still Stands

fN (By AaBOStateu FEesS'
obicago August 14.-Further pa
IN of rail transportation in the
Invest and at least two instances
serious violence against railroad
|berty marked the opening hours
h. seventh week of the strike of
iii shop crafts workers. Northern
I'll central California today were
ilhout fast freight transportation
ii. and indications were the sole re-
,shing passenger route also would
I abandoned. Upwards of 1,7O0
assengers were marooned on 10
,pins abandoned in Arizona, New
Iexico and California deserts by
,snbers of the operating brother
oods.
Asny cities of California's San
uaouin valley were without mail
eryice as a result of cessation of
rsnsportation, and eastern mail,
ated in Southern California Thurs
Al still was unmoved. Fruit grow
Il estimated their accruing losses at
million dollars a day and one ship
q professed his loss reached $780,
% daily.
President Harding's proffer of un-
tinted federal aid for passengers
mfering on trains stalled in the hu-
IA Arizona wastes met ready re-
ppnse, as Governor Thomas E.
ampbell, immediately upon receipt
I the presidents telegram, sent
olOnel Walter S. ingalls,, adjutant
eneral, to Seligman and report at
he earliest possible moment"
Reports of instances of personal
iDlence to non-uniOn workers who
ave replaced the men who went on
trike were few, but for the first
ne attacks of magnitude were made
gainst railroad property.
Lives of passengers were endan-
pred and ten persons were injured
Ihen a passenger train loaded prin-
Pally with weekend eXcursionists
'aS bombed at Granton Junction, N
Steel coaches, which were marked
isibly by the explosions served as
irritable bombproofs in protecting
he passengers.
AT Ash Grove, Mo-, the St. Louis &
an Francisco's 400-foot bridge ovel
ne Sac river was dynamited. The
orth abutment was destroyed, ac
Prdlng to early and fragmentary
ports, and for quite a distance the
|acks We're raised foot.
Fire of undetermined origin earl!
'day destroyed the Wichita Falls
pa Northwestern railways shops a
Ilchita Falls, Texas. Three locomo
yes, numerous coaches and box car!
ere lost. 1t was only with difficul
that several loaded oil trains wer,
Aved.
Irainmen who tied up traffic OF
le st. Louis & San Francisco, ou
Birmingham, Ala, returned t,
nelr Jobs and road officials announc
immediate resumption of trail
efVice. Mails which were delaye,
ere re-routed over other lines.
Big -Four" brotherhood men a
lemphis, Tenn. deferred action re
ardlng a suspension of work becaus
alleged crippled rolling stock.
Members of the big four" at Par
'hS' hans., decided to continue wor
null after union officials conferre
ltn rail heads at St. Louis today.
Bombs were thrown into the South
IN Pacific yards at Roseville, Cal
arly today.
Members of the big four" broth
rhoods at Topeka, Kans, were sal
. De unable to agree on strike az
ION.
o1ficials of the Kansas City, Me,
- q Orient railway announced 6
wichita, Kans., that any attempt
'e up traffic by striking train crew
Iould result in immediate suspensio
| all operations on the Orient.
Troops patrolled the Santa F
nOps at Newton, Kansas, where Sc,
Fai deputies and shop workers wei
eaten by a crowd Saturday night
san Francisco, August 14.-Nortl