Evening star., 1922-08-31
TO WRECK
TRAINS TO BRING
RADICAL ROUNDUP
Chicago Police Aroused by
Discovery of Plan to Bomb
Western Express.
DYNAMITE ATTACKS
MADE At MANY POINTS
Bridges, Shop Buildings and
Homes of Workers Damaged.
Shots Fly Thick.
BY the Associated Press,

CHICAGO. August 31.-Aroused Dy
the disclosure of evidence OF plots
to wreck trains and the arrest OF
three men in connection with an al
legged plan to dynamite the western
express on the New York Central
lines. the police today prepared Tor a
roundup Of radicals.
Reports that raids on radicals In
radical centers throughout the coun-
try were planned was denied at the
bureau of investigation OF the De-
partment Of Justice here.
Detectives today were attempting TO
link the plot attributed to the Trio
to wreck the western express with
the wrecking Of a Michigan Central
express. near Gary. Ind. in which
four men are charged with murder
as a result OF the killing Of the
engineer and fireman.
The police suspect that quantity
of dynamite has been obtained by
plotters. and they are hunting for
that.
Posed M Strikers.
Railroad detectives who represented
themselves as strikers were said by
the police to have obtained the first
information concerning the alleged
dynamite plots.
The men row held here in con-
nection with the plot alleged to have
been Matched against the western
express are C. A. Lagham, ]. j. Boyle
and Frank R. Hartman. All live IN
Chicago ard are declared by the
police not only to be striking shop
men, but communists as well. the
plan to dynamite the express train
was declared by investigators to have
been set Cor today after 1t had been
postponed from Tuesday.
played an important part in develop
msnts the last twenty-four hours
Trai. Hits Open Switch.
An attempt was made to blow up
the commissary Of the Illinois Central
railroad Of Paducah, KY. The ex-
piosion blew a hole in the ground
near the building.
A fast train on the Chicago and
Alton ran into an open switch at
coyel, ILL.,, near Bloomington. In
yestiEators said the switch showed
evidence of tampering.
Police precautions at Algters.
suburb Of New Orleans: In erect,
check disorders which authorities
characterized as virtual anarchy.
Police reported almost constant firing
in railroad districts and between
thirty-five and forty assaults since
the shopmen's strike began. One man
being beaten.
workers. Homes Attacked.
Walter Adams, a striking carman.
was arrested at Memphis Tenn, on a
charge of highway robbery and an
attempt to commit murder. the charges
growing out Of an attack July on
a special agent of the Union Belt Line
railway.
A jury at Shreveport, La. returned
verdict of not guilty in the case of
Richard Koenig. a carman. charged
with participation in the abduction and
f1ogStng OF a car checker and a guard
for the v. s. & p. railway on the night
of August 16.
The homes of two railroad workers
at Council Bluffs, Iowd, were stormed
non-union worker was beaten and
United states Marshal Jap Pickett was
slugged.
Troops Ordered Home.
State troops on strike duty at Sails
bury and Spencer, N. c., were ordered
back to their home stations today,
authorities. feeling assured that dan
ger of further disorders in the shops
of the southern.railway had passed.
Four men, two Of whom were said
to. be deputy United States marshals,
were attacked by q crowd and Sc
.yerely beaten at Sedalia, Mo.
Guards on the Northern Pacific at
Missoula, Mont, were reinforced by a
squad of deputy United States mar
shals, following an attack on bunk
house where twenty-five workmen
shots was fired into the bunkhouse,
none Of the sleeping men was injured.
Find Much Dynanite.
Attempts to blow up the tracks OF
the Chicago and Alton and q bridge
ON the same road near Alton, ILL.,,
were discovered when two cans Of
dynamite were found by section
crew.
Although preparations were made to
reopen the shops of the Missouri Pa
cific and the Missouri. Kansas .and
Texas railroads at Sedalia, Mo-, the
Missouri Pacific roundhouse and
shops at De Soto. Mo-. remained
closed, the management Announcing
that operations had been discon-
tinued Indefinitely: Il
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