The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02
VIOLENCE ON
STEAM LINES
ON DECREASE
Two Lives Lost When Train
Goes Through Trestle in
Missouri. and O. Takes
Off q Trains.
E. F. CRADLE is SICK
CBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-While rigid re-
strictions werea placed by the federal
injunction, granted yesterday, on all
participants in the nationwide rail
strike, reports of violence in connec-
ton with the walkout continued to be
received.
The last "a hours, however, devel-
oped fewer outrages than days imme
diately preceding.
High lights included the bombing
of the home of a railroad shop fore
man a. Little Rock, Ark; a plot to
dynamic property of the Louisi ana
and Arkansas railway at Bentley, La;
an attempt to derail Big Four train
at Marion, Ohio; derailment of the
Palmetto limited on the Atlantic
Coast Line near Tampa, Fla, and an
attempt to blow up a bridge over the
Cuyahoga river in Ohio.
Two Lives Lost
The most disastrous occurrence was
the wreck of St. Louis San Francisco
passenger train at Cape Girardeau,
Nc, with the loss of two lives and
injuries to a number of passengers.
The train crashed through a trestle.
Investigation has established no act
of vandalism as contributing to the
cause of the collapse of the trestle
Although Frisco officials vigorously
denied the trestle had been unsafe,
Prosecuting Attorney Funwich, of
Perry county, began investigation of
reports that section hands reported
the structure to be unsafe several
months ago.
A threatened walkout by train crews
at Parsons, Kas., was averted when
guards were removed from inside the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas yards,
Firemen, however, refused to move
two trains on the Southern Railway
at Asheville, n. c., because of an alter
cation between hostler and a guard,
and Louisville and Nashville trainmen
were taking a strike vote at Corbin,
KY, following alleged insults by
guards.
B. and o. AnnuIs Trains.
The Baltimore and Ohio announced
annulment of % passenger trains Sept.
f.
Some coal mines in the southern Hi.
nois fields were closed because of a
car shortage. 1t was reported that hall
/ the mines in Williamson county were
shutdown.
| c. r. Markham, president of the Hi
nois Central announced that conditions
on that road had improved to such an
extent that the Paducah, KY. shops
were employing more men than before
/ the strike began and that there would
seen be no more Jobs for returning
/ strikers.
| Department of justice operatives de
MED that a nationwide raid on radicals
was contemplated as a result of dis
/ closures and arrests in Chicago in con
nectiOn with alleged wreck plats.
! CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 2.-Tem
porary cancellation of % Baltimore
and Ohio passenger trains was viewed
today by striking shopmen here as
further evidence of the effectiveness
of the strike. Cancellation was an
nounced as effective Tuesday, by o. D
Brooks, superintendent of transporta
ton for the B. and o. lines southwest
This move will allow greater con
centration of mechanics on freight 10
comotive and car repairs and will re
lease some motive power now in pas
senger service for the great increase
in coal movements expedited as a re
suit of recent adjustments in the Goa
strike situation, it was explained.
/ CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-E. F. Cradle
president of the International Brother
hood of Maintenance of Way Men, /!
critically i'll in a hotel here. his wifi,
told a representative of the Associated
Press today. He is suffering from 4;
nervous collapse.
NEW YORK, Sept 2-"The injuno
ton proceedings brought by the gov
ernment in the rail strike are the bes
anarchist breeders that could b.
found" it was said in a letter of In
struction issued to striking shopmel
: today by David Williams, secretary O
the committee directing the strike il
this district. Asserting that strik
benefits could not now be obtaine,
: from the international labor unions
: the letter instructed them to appeal t
) the public and other labor unions 70
| help in order that their babies nigh
; not starve. "Above all things, kee
your heads and do not resort to vic
lence."
: CHICAGO, Sept 2.-Represents
tives of more than 100 railroads an
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