Imperial Valley press., 1922-08-14
CONSPIRACY IS
ALLEGED
Attorney General Daugh-
erty Looking Into Santa
Fe WalkOut
PASSENGERS RESCUED
Many Reach Los Angeles in
State of Collapse From
Heat

Violence in the rail strike flar-
ed up over the extend.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad bridge across the Sac
river, Is miles northwest of
Springfield, Mo-, was dynamited.
Several guards and deputy mar
shals were fired upon in the Santa
Fe railroad yards at San Bernar-
dino, Calf, by unidentified men.
Three torpedoes were exploded on
tracks near the Santa Fe station.
Three bombs believed to have
been hurled at West Shore pas
senger train at Granton Junction,
N. j., injured at least a score of
persons, principally women and
children.
Damages estimated at $1,000,00O
resulted from a fire in the round
houses of the Maine Central and
Boston and Maine lines at Port
land, Maine, when Is locomotives
were destroyed.
Rioting broke out at midnight in
the shops at Ashley, Pa, when sew
eral hundred strike sympathizers
cornered five. strike breakers.
Shots We're fired.
THE wife of foreman in the
Lehigh Valley roundhouse at East
Buffalo. was probably fatally
wounded by bullets fired through
the windows of their home.
Five bombs were thrown into
Southern Pacific yards at Rose
vile, Calf.
Government to Step In
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE fed
eral government will not countenanc,
abandonment of trains and their pas
sengers by train crews, according to {
telegram dispatched last night by
President Harding to Governor Camp
bell of Arizona.
Harding said he had been informed
that several trains were marOoned at
junction points ON the Santa Fe in
Arizona and that if, the state could not
rescue the travellers from the desert
the federal government would.
cit is the obligation of the govern
ment to relieve the people who are
thus shamefully subjected to hard
ships" the telegram stated in part
eff you have not the facilities for the
relief which / know you will gladly be
stow, then any forces at the command
of the federal government will be
promptly ordered to your assistance.
Alleges Conspiracy
CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Walkout of the
''Big Four" brotherhoods at Needles
Calf, and other points on the Santa
Fe railroad was branded as deliber'
ate conspiracy by Vice President A. G
Wells of the Santa Fe today.
"The action of the trainmen was
inhuman and violation of their sol
emn agreements with the railroads, >
Wells declared.
Wells stated that the scores of men
women and children maroOned at the
desert division point were started to
ward Los Angeles yesterday on train
by railroad officials.
"Press dispatches today declare that
Attorney General Daugherty has
started an investigation to determine
if the action of the trainmen was $
conspiracy. I desire the public tC
know it was nothing else,'' Wells de-
clared in a statement.
"More than that, it was inhumar
to abandon people, especially aged
women and children, in desert places
with the mercury 120 in the shade.''
Trains were still held up today al
Seligman, Ashfork and Williams, Ari
zona, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"Big Four" members were still out
at Joliet, Ills, ON the Elgin, Joliet an(
Eastern. Traffic was at standstill.
Officials Operate Trains
Los ANGELES, Calf, Aug. a.
Fog hid the sun and a cool breeze fan
ned Los Angeles today as though out
of pity for the 125 passengers Of
Santa Fe train No. l, who were brought
out of the scorching desert after three
days and nights stalled at Needles by
the strike of brotherhood men.
Near Prostration
Several were near prostration, and al
told of the heat which hung close I,
100 degrees and at times reached 1870
it was said.
j. M. Morris, 81, who had left her,
in ill-health, was taken from the trail
on stretcher. Mrs. Malissa Wooden
95, was removed from the station in
wheelchair. And several mothers on th'
train related pathetic stories of beinl
unable to get milk for their babies
suffering from the heat.
Cars Like Bake Oven
cit was almost impossible to sleep Il
the ears said one passenger. "Th'