Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-14
Walkout OF Brotherhood.
Causes Suffering Among. .
Passenger. Marooned In
Desert Region; Passenger
Train Bombed In New
Jersey; Wichita Falls
Railroad Shops Burned.

ated Press.)-New knots In railroad
Transportation Of the far west; bomb
sEang of a passenger train loaded with
fexcursionists at Grantqn Junction, N.
bridge at Ash Grove, No. and de-
Instruction by fire Of the Wichita Falls
and the Northwestern railway shops
|at Wichita Falls, Texas, marked the
Yearly hours Of the rail strikes
seventh week while rail heads and
.kstrike leaders were deadlocked over
III President Harding's proposals. for
91peace.
M Walkout Spreads.
S& The walkout Of Santa Fe train
VErews, who left their trains stranded
i&asn, the deserts of California. Arizona
nnld nld New Mexico, spread to other
Ephralysis crept onto new centers,
Saintenance of way men. in the New
ksXsprk district petitioned. their national
HslA4ders for a strike order.
Move Passengers, '
Fe officials, manning the
sgs8knded trains at Needles, Cal,
y Sfnpved marooned passengers out 'oi
M M thR desert but 19 trains on the sys-
.tAm were still tied up when more
ii ,si;stfAWs quit. .,. -
iSpne thousand passengers stranded
II SAHta Fe, appealed to President
X I. ssding for relief and federal inquiry
intosthe tie-up was ordered by Joseph
Burke, u. S. district attorney at Los
\, Angeles, following communications
with Attorney General Daugherty. ~
Az the same time slsoyesno or YtsomAe
Z, r. Campbell OF Arizona ordered an
t}fSossd 1iSsSss A passengers m atsseissFsln fol-
h f1Ovhfn q 2cAnf1PfS of suffering. $50
The walkauffrr s0f:s Four. s ansa
stffSottation brotherhood mon, x who
HbaSed their action on the presence Eof
4 si1oldiers and armed guards at former
ffr0uble centers, and upon alleged de-
fective railroad equipment, spread
system Crews left their trains at
\ Sacramento and. Roseville,t: Cal, and
other points on the Southern Pacific.
u added new embargoes on perishable
N freight including. live; stock on the
y Ogden and Portland routes. s I.
gi4S Suffering is Intense: = 81
tSE Suffer- ng among narooned pas
q sSsengers, especially women, children
81 and the aged and infirm, was growing
intense, according to reports from
some Of the halted trains. 4.
Relief for stranded passengers ~on
1 Ahe Union Pacific between Salt Lake
brotherhood men,, who moved SIX
! trains n1arooned at desert points to
y places Of less discomfort.
2gsi$4Western Pacific crews working be-
* tween Elko, New. and Gerlach. agreed
4 to return to work but brotherhood
mon at Stockton, Oakland and Oro'
Il Vile, Cal remained out. u
Several trains which started on
their schedules were formed to return
d tS their starting points when it was
5AVident they would only add to the
tie-up.
Bridge Dynamited.
Deputy U. S. marshals and wreck:
SSs4ng crews were sent to Ash Grove, II
fsi miles from Springfield, Mo-, where
the 400 foot Frisco bridge over the
sac river was dynamited.
Detectives were endeavoring to run
% down clues to the identity OF bombert
Ssl,n the West Shore railroad at Gran
SNfnn junction, N. J. Passengers, most
35tS0f them returning excursionists were
fHfhrown into panic when the bomb bs
lywere hurled at the train AZ it crossed
Sla culvert in an isolated cut. Stee
ears. which withstood the shock mini.
AsInized the damage but many windows
were broken and ten persons We're IN
Y aured. tsY4 a = -, :.
IfEthe shop fire at Wichita Falls. Tex
N sirhe flames were discovered by, {
8 pa lehman and spread rapidly
Iss through the oil soaked interior Of thu
a3s#1 Train men who tied up. trafnc OF
$s +he St. Louis and San Francisco ou
%aof Birmingham, returned to theil
HSjobs. ". ~. =. !. !. !, y !. ,,.,.s i.
pacific yards at Roseville. Cal.
8:early today. A, Sg s..