The New York herald., 1922-08-16

port redcneu mere late to-uay tldt an
attempt had been made to wreck a train
on the Atlanta division Of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway at
Chickamauga, twelve miles south Of this
city, the spikes having been drawn from
the rails officers and bloodhounds have
gone to the scene.
SANpUsKY, Ohio, Aug. 15-Shots were
exchanged early to-day between rail-
road guards and either strikers or strike
sympathizers in the New York Central
Z Railroad yards here. One guard was
shot in the hand. No arrests have been
made.
- WopcEsTER, Mass. Aug. ia num-
ber Of large pieces of flat stone were
found on the tracks of the Boston and
Albany Railroad at a point where marks
on the ties indicated that the wheels
had first left the tracks. according to
the testimony in court to-day of Jere-
miah A. Lee of Pittsfield conductor Of
the Berkshire express which was
wrecked at Putnam Lane August s,
causing two deaths and injuries to about
twenty persons George w. Paine. a
signalman. said he saw a stone larger
than mans head hurled at the tracks
A few seconds later the wreck occurred.
PORTLAND, Me-, Aug. 15.-The third
fire to start on railroad property within
forty-eight hours threatened the gem
eral office building of the Maine Central
Railroad to-day. The flames were con-
fined to the storage room in the base
ment The flames started just six hours
after an alleged attempt had been made
TO burn twenty-eight locomotives In the
roundhouse at Thompson's Point a
short distance away. Two men have
been arrested for the roundhouse fire.
One is said to have confessed to start
ing it.
Sr Lou1s, Aug. 15.-Police to-day
were investigating a double explosion
under a Wabash Railroad bridge in the
northwest section of the city. The
structure was damaged. The blasts oc-
Cured just before a passenger train
crossed the bridge. Three railroad ties
were placed across the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas main tracks at ST.
Charles. Mo. last night The ties were
found by fisherman. who removed
them shortly before the Katy Limited"
from the Southwest, sped past the point,
il was said.
NEW HAVEN, y. Y. Aug. 15.-Explo-
sion of a dynamite bomb early to-day
wrecked the front part of the home Of
Fred d. Whitney. employed in the New
York Central car shops at Oswego.
Whitney and his wife, who were asleep
on an upper flcCS, escaped injury The
blast. was believed to have been the
work OF foreigners who had threatened
Whitney because he continued al work.
PTrTsBURGH, Aug. 15.-Three hundred
shopmen of the Bessemer and Lake Erie
Railroad have struck at Greenville, Pa,
Il was announced here to-day, and a
small number OF machinksts aud boiler
makers are out at Albion.
GREEN BAY, Wis. Aug. 15.-Al train
service men and switchmen at the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and st. Paul shops re-
fused to go to work this morning be-
cause Of the presence of armed guards.
Officials announced that freight trains
would be dropped, but an attempt would
be made to continue passenger service.
PRINCETON, Ind. Aug. 15-Malnte-
nance of way men at the Louisville-St.
Louis division of the Southern Railroad
shops here walked out this morning.
Company officials say the men were n
duced to quit by striking miners.