New Britain herald., 1922-08-17
WESTERN ROADS ARE I
 OPERATING AGAIN
Rlotins and Outbreaks Continue
 in Various Sections

Chicago, Aug. 1T (By Associated Press s)-An end to the strike of big four transportation brotherhoods on western railroads, an improved out LOOK for peace in the New York con- ference today, shootings, bombjngs ana burning were high lights in the nations railway crisis during the last 24 hours.
 Blockades and tie.ups on the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, Western Pacific and Southern Pacific cleared up when striking train crews called of their walkout and opened the way to immediate restora- ton of traffic on lines which were laralyzed by the strike of the "big four" brotherhoods.
 Strikers Returning.
 Stranded Santa Fe trains were moved out of Albuquerque, N. M.. and trainmen at Prescott, Ariz., noti- fled Santa Fe officials that strikers would return to work. These moves followed earlier developments towards ending the tie-up on the Santa Fe. The Union Pacific's traffic knot un- travelled rapidly after trainmen on the Las Vegas division called off their strike. Other western roads restored transportation activities to the basis which had been in effect since the shopmen's strike began, July l.
 Tentative agreements looking to- ward an end to the trainmen's strike on the Cumberland Valley division of the Louisville and Nashville were an- nounced at Corbin, Ky
 With the train service breaking up in other sections of the country train men who interrupted traffic on the Missouri Pacific at Van Buren, Ark, refused to return to work while guards remained on duty in the yards.
 Fruit Shipments Begin.
 Settlement of the trouble with the trainmen resulted in an immediate movement eastward of fruit shipments and other perishable freight marooned in Californa
 Bombs were thrown at Santa Fe train which left San Bernardo for the first time in six days The first bomb exploded in the railroad yards and two more were hurled at the passen- ger train as the engine wheels spun over oiled rails in pulling out of the city.
 Killed by Guard.
 George Stambaugh brakeman on the Great Northern, was shot and killed at Havre, Mont, by a railroad guard William Craft, blacksmith's s felper employed by the Denver and Rio Grande since the shopmen's strike, suffered broken leg and other injuries when he was attacked on the streets of Pueblo, Colo.
 Woman Is Slain.
 Mrs. Nels Hansen, wife of a Santa Fe shop foreman, was shot and killed in her home. Police took up the trail of two men who are said to have attacked her.
 James Lewis, a striking Pennsyl- vania railroad machinist, was shot to death by Charles Parsons. a wealthy real estate man at Cape Charles. Va, following a dispute over the strike. Lewis accused Parsons of listening over" the shoulders of strikers when they gathered to discuss the strike.
 Troops remained on guard in vir tually all places where soldiers were sent to quell riots earlier in the strike.
 Troops Are Asked for
 Local authorities asked for troops at Spencer, N. G., where shop work CTS were routed by strike sympa- thizers.
 Major Stiles in command of troops at Clinton. H., recommended martial law following renewed disturbances in which several men were injured. An was made to blow up the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Birmingham and plot to wreck train on the same road at Mobile was discovered while the home of an l.. and N employe was attacked by bullets and bombs.
 Traffic on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific was blocked at Al Reno, Okla, where railroad bridge was burned.
 Striking miners forced the crew of a Mobile and Ohio train to sidetrack five cars of coal at Willysville. The coal had been in storage and was as signed to East St. Louis.
 A jury in federal court at Kansas City, Mo, returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of four men charged with violation of an anti-picketing in junction obtained by the St. Louis, San Francisco railroad at Springfield, Mo.
 New Injunctions.
 New iniunctions included one grant ed to the New Orleans and North na astern railroad restraining strikers from interfering with operation Of trains in Louisiana.