The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-11
A SANTE FEE
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pany's round house, according to the
| The bombs were buried in the
ground and in exploding did no dam
| age, but blew much earth into the air,
it was said. None of the guards on
| duty was hurt.
No One Allowed In.
More explosions were expected mo-
mentarily and no one was allowed in
the stockade this morning.
1t was thought at first that the
bombs were thrown into the stockade
but explosions occurring at intervals
led investigators to believe the bombs
had been previously planted. The be-
lief that the explosions were caused
from high powered caps and not
bombs was expressed by United States
Marshal Greenwood. He also was of
the opinion. he said, that the explo-
sions were intended not to do angina,
terial { mage, but to brighten men at
work. b, s-N
High Line Is Down.
A ! voltage power line of the
Sou California Edison company
was broken just as one of the expIo-
slons occurred. Breaking of the line
caused the lighting system of the city
to become grounded and the city was
in darkness for more than an hour.
Deputy United States Marshal AL
bertson was seriously burned when a
bomb exploded in his hands shortly
after the explosion of the twenty
three bombs.
Explosion of the bombs created
terror in the vicinity of the shops.
hurting fragments several hundred
feet. The bombs were of cast iron
pipe elbows filled with a white DOW
der and, according to investigators,
apparently 'were thrown into the
stockade.
Death Stalks Two Employees.
Cleveland, Aug. 1.-Two non-union
employees of the New York Central
railroad in its Collinwood round house
We're shot and killed last night.
The men were identified as William
Down, aboutN0, an engine dispatcher,
and Fritz Forschner, about 20 years
old. a call boy.
Down had been an employee of the
road for about 2 years. Neither he
nor Forschner walked out when the
shipments strike was called, company
employees said.
Wabash Ffremen UnruIy.
(By the Associated PressJ
Moberly, Mo-, Aug. 11-Round-
house firemen, employed by the Wa
bash railroad, have voted not to move
any freight trains thru the local yards
until the demands of the striking
shopmen are granted. Unsafe equip
ment as a result of the shipments
strike is given by the men as the
cause of their action.
The grievances of the firemen have
been laid before national brotherhood
officials and word was awaited to-
day by the men sanctioning or disap-
proving a walkout.
Southern Gets a Blast.
Asheville. NJ C., Aug. 11.-What
deputy sheriffs and marshals said was
an explosion of dynamite occurred
here late last night under a dining
car of the Southern railway in which
men employed since the shipments
strike had been fed, and altho damage
done. TRnnFfdd IN
jured.
Eleven men were in an adjoining
sleeping car and the glass in this car
was shattered Railroad detectives
were unable to obtain any clue as to
the perpetrators.
He'll Resign Before Compromising.
Chicago, Aug. 11.-President w. G.
Bierd, of the Chicago & Alton rail-
road, in a signed statement to be pub
lished in the Railway Review de-
fighting with their backs to the wall
against intolerable conditions, and
that he will quit as president of the
road ratheT than submit to these con-
takes slap at the. peace at any
price of the United States rail labor
board. as he considers its actions.
It was stated at the office of the
general manager iof the Santa Fe in
Topeka today that the road in this
territory has not yet been affected by
the tieup of trains in California thru
refusal of members of the big four
brotherhoods to work where armed
guards are employed.
Business was reported as normal
with trains generally maintaining
schedules. w. K. Etter. acting gem
eraI manager. made it plain. however.
that he was talking only for the east