The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-21
TWO Are KILLED
when FAST TRAIN
Goes INTO DITCH
Spikes Were Removed From
Ties and Rails LOOsened.
Train Was Running Sixty Miles
an Hour at the Time.
PASSENGER TRAIN WAS NEXT
1t Was One PIOtterS Intended
to Wreck. 1t Is Said.
Names Radical Leaders Learned
Arrests May Follow.
Names Radical Leaders Learned
Arrests May Follow.

Chicago. Aug 21--lnNeSuSdtlon OI
the Trade Union Educa. nal league
headed by W. Z. Foster. who con-
Quoted the 1919 steel strike, was ended
this afternoon so far as the states
cttorney's office was concerned AS
sistant States Attorney w. F. Nc
I.aughlin announced. Examination OF
the papers seized in the leagues Of
flee in a raid disclosed no evidence
that Foster has advocated violence in
connection with the railroad strike or
Otherwise. Mr.. Mclaughlin said.
Many members of the Industrial
workers of the World are numbered
among the railroad strikers. ana
number of them have demonstrated
their objection to military deSpousm
by gu ttinr their jobs, according to a
statement OF Martin Carlson, general
secretary of the Railroad Workers In
dCstrial union, part OF the L W. W.
orSanizat ton. according. 10 an an
Tounccnent by the general defense
committee today. CarlSon's statement
was called for. by recent statements OF
attorney GeneraF DauEherty that he
believed there was a reiatIon between
the railroad strikes and the L w W.
and that there were indications that
the I W. W.'s are willing to take over
sC-ne responsibility of train transpor-
tation and even the government itself
in the west.
II is true that there are I. w. W.
members among the railroad strikers
in various centers who have demon
strated their objection to military
despotisn by quitting their Jobs" Mr.
Carlson was quoted by the defense
committee. There are I. ". W. men,
bnss also among the men at work in
@. ,er railroad departments and they
too would be out on strike if the ma
io-.ty of the workers in those depart
rnents had not been under the domina-
tion of their grand loge Officers
AIr Carson was quoted, as saying
a . that the I. w ". were willing
biiity for railroad transportation and
for the conduct of all other produc-
tive indu tres" He denied, however.
that the organization sought control
Of the reins of government.
Chicago. Aug. 21-ofnces Of the
Trades Union Educational league
were raided and correspondence and
private papers OF Wllllam H. roster.
head of the league and one of the
foremost radical leaders OF America
were seized by States Attorney Grove
and detectives late last night follow
ing investigation into the Wrecking or
a Michigan Central train at Gary, Ind.
early yesterday and the discovery of
two sticks OF dynamite on the Penn
sylvania railroad tracks.
K Foster was said to be in Joliet.
where it was reported ne spent sew
REdL uaAS aIIeE ne WIS OLAEltd bul VI
Colorado by state authorities Exam
lnation of Fosters papers, the states
attorney said, barred a widespread
lone big union" propaganda among
railroad workers and gave valuable
information concerning a sympathetic
series of radical meetings in railroad
centers
No Arrests Yer.
e No arrests were made at the time
OF the raid but a long list of names of
hsad Tr-
Grove announced.
The states attorneys investigation
began Immediately after the report of
the Michigan Central wreck at Gary
was received here along with the report
by railroad officials that the train had
been deliberately ditched by plotters
Spikes were removed from ties and
rails lOoSened, railroad officials said
The express train, the engineer and
fireman of which were killed, when
engine and cars piled up the In
diana sand. was running five hours
late and an hour ahead of one of the
fastest New York-Chicago limiteds. 1t
was believed the plotters planned to
wreck the passenger train.
Foster Planned Meetings.
The raid on Fosters headquarters
was planned after hurried communi-
cations with authorities in other rail
centers where disorders have occurred
and where meetings of railroad men
have been addressed by radical lead
ers- Reports of : dozen meetings ad-
dressed by Foster in cities of the mid
die west were received. the states
attorney said. Detectives battered
down the door of the leagues office.
Inside they seized letter files. card in-
dexes, books, pamphlets, pictures of
Lenine and Trotzky. soviet leaders of
Russia. The evidence filled a truck
1t included a complete list of meetings
held by Foster, the raiders said.
"AdJutant General Hamrock of
Colorado is on record with the state
ment he considers Foster one of the
most dangerous radicals in existence"
States Attorney Grove said. ''We
raided his offic, following an inves-
uEation of a premeditated train wreck,