The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-22
RAIL TIE.UPS
AND VIOLENCE
MARK STRIKE
Trainmen on Southern Rail
road Quit Bombings and
Beatings Are Reported I'm
vestigate Alleged Plots.
SITUATION IS TENSE
CBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Walkouts by
trainmen on the Southern railroad re-
sulting in tie-ups in North Carolina,
bombings, beatings and Investigations
OF alleged wreck plots, marked pro-
gress of the rail shopmen's strike
while efforts to settle it hang suspend
ed pending the New York meeting to-
morrow of rail heads and leaders of
the transportation brotherhoods, medi-
ators for the striking shopmen.
Eight companies of state troops
were on duty about the shops of the
southern railway at Spencer, N. c..
where 1,700 men are out and about
the postoffice at Salisbury, three
miles from Spencer. The troops at
the postoffice were requested by Post
master A. E. Royden. wAo alleged that
open threats had been made to lynch
postoffice clerk
Tenseness Prevails.
Tenseness prevailed in the situation
at Spencer, but was broken by arrival
OF the troops Trainmen, switchmen
and clerks held a meeting at which
they decided to defer moving trains
until later today when another meet
ing was to be held to decide whether
the walkout was to be permanent.
All trains arriving at Spencer after
midnight over the Southern were tied
up with the exception of No. 1873.
which left with Clyde Keever, general
foreman of the Southern shops at the
throttle. At Atlanta, 35 extra United
States marshals were on duty at the
Southern railway Inman yards. where
yesterday negro man was perhaps
fatally injured and nine others Sc
verely beaten.
A party of men was reported to
have attacked ]. F. Feaster, boiler
maker. at birmingham late last night
near the Louisville & Nashville shops.
Feaster, according to the report, was
bound and severely beaten
Traffic on the Louisville-St Louis
division of the Southern will be tied
up completely at 1901 o'clock Thurs
day morning. unless B. G. Falls, gen.
eral superintendent of the western di-
vision and representatives of the big
four" brotherhoods effect an agree
ment on the roads use of armed
guards
Mr. Falls today was in Princeton,
Ind, where firemen walked out yes
terday and was expected to confer
with representatives of the Brother
hoods. Their action cut off the four
trains from Louisville to st. Louis and
trains in and out of Princeton.
The general division walkout set for
Thursday would take in all the Big
Four" men and will affect, it was es-
timated, between $50 and 400 men To-
Gated at terminals at East st. Louis,
H., Louisville, Princeton, Ind, and
Huntington, Ind. At Huntington, w.
Va, a second attempt to dynamite the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge
was frustrated when a track walker
frightened three men from the trestle
They left box of dynamite and 40
feet of fuse.
Wreck is Averted
Linemen for the Missouri and North
Arkansas railway discovered an OBJ
struction on the tracks near Harrison,
Ark, and removed it 10 minutes be-
fore a train passed. Oil had been
smeared on the tracks and heavy
iron bar placed on them.
P. D. Fought, an employe of the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops at Lit
| tie Rock, Ark, told the police that he
and a companion were kidnapped,
taken to a grove on a river bank and
beaten by party of men. Fought
escaped after a struggle, but said he
did not know the fate of his compan-
ion, who was receiving a terrific beat
ing.
San Bernardino, Calf, remained in
high state of excitement over re-
newed outbreaks in the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe. A striking elec-
trician was killed and another striker
was fatally injured in pistol fight
with a negro waiter employed at the
commissary inside the Santa Fe en-
close. According to police the negro
said he emptied a pistol at five men
who followed him from the shops. A
strong guard was thrown around the
Jail where the negro was held.
Hotel Is Bombed.
A hotel at Smithfield, Pa. where 25
railroad workers were quartered was
bombed early today. A miners bunk
house was also damaged by an e.
plosion. State police arrested Is men
after an attack on non-union miners.
Ten men were injured in the fighting.
Numerous prosecutions of persons
arrested for violating federal iniunc.
tions were begun in various parts of
the country. They included the trial
at Peoria, H., Of Mayor c. P. Skinner.
of Moline, ILL.,, on a charge of contempt
of court
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