The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-08-14
BOMBS, M FIRES,
RIOTS. MARK
RAIL STRIKE
Passengers Mar0Oned in Des-
ert Suffer from Long Delay
in Schedule
TRAIN is BOMBED
Railroad Shops at Wichita
Falls Are Fired and Flames
Work Havoc
TRAIN is BOMBED
BY the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press)
Cleveland, Aug. 14.-W. G. Lee,
president ofithe Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen today in
structed two vice presidents of
his organization to 90 immedi-
ately upon the Santa Fe coast
lines where illegal strikes of
trainmen are reported in effect
and trains marooned.
: instructions were given the
vice presidents" Mr.. Lee said,
ito insist that all laws of the
brotherhood regarding cessation
of work be complied with and
memberhip continue at work."
Mr.. Lee declined to say anything
further regarding the railroad
situation.
Chicago, Aug. IA. = New
knots in railroad transporta-
tion of the far west; bombing
of a passenger train loaded
with excursionists at Granton
Junction, N. j.; dynamiting of
Frisco railroad bridge at Ash
Grove, Mo-, and destruction
by fire of the Wichita Falls
and Northwestern railway
shops at,Wichita Falls, Texas,
the early hours of the
rail strikes seventh week
while rail heads and strike
leaders were deadlocked over
President Harding's proposals
for peace.
The walkout of Santa Fe train
crews, who left their trains strand
ed in the, deserts of California, Ari
zona and New Mexico, spread to,
other lines and as the railroad
..crept on to new centers,
maintenance-of-way men in the New
York district petitioned their nation
al leaders for strike order.
MANY STRANDED
Santa Fe officials, manning the
stranded trains at Needles, Cali
rornia moved marooned passengers
otu of the desert, but 10 trains Oh
he system were still tied up when
more crews quit.
One thousand passengers stranded
1t Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the
Santa Fe, appealed to President
for relief and federal in
JURY into the tie-up was ordered by
Joseph Burke, United States district
attorney at Los Angeles, following
with Attorney Cen
,ral Daugherty.
Order Investigation
At the same time Governor Thomas
=. Campbell, of Arizona, ordered an
Investigation Of conditions among
narooned passengers at Seligman
reports of suffering.
The walk out of "Big Four" trans
brotherhood men, who
BASED their action on the presence
If soldiers and armed guards at for
ner trouble centers, and upon al
eyed defective railroad equipment,
spread rapidly over. the Southern Pa
.ific system. Crews left their trains
It Sacramento and Roseville, Cali
Fornia, and other points on the
Southern Pacific, added new embar-
,oes on perishab1e freight, including
livestock on the Ogden and Portland
'Outes.
Suffering Intense
Suffering among marooned passen-
,ers, especially women, children and
he aged and inirm, was growing in
ense, according to reports from
;ome of the halted trains.
Relief for stranded passengers on
he Union Pacific between Salt Lake
City and Los Angeles was given by
brotherhood men, who moved six
rains marooned at desert points to
,laces of less discomfort.
Western Pacific crews working be-
ween Elko, Nevada, and Gerlach,
greed to return to work but brother
ood men at Stockton, Oakland, and
)roville, California, remained out.
Several trains which started on
heir schedules were forced to return
o their starting points when it was
vident they would only add to the
ie-up.
U. s. Marshals Used
Deputy United States Marshals
md wrecking crews were sent to Ash
rove, Is miles from Springfield,
where the 400 foot 'Fisco
ridge over the Sac river was dyna-
nited. ..
Detectives were endeavoring to run
|own clues to the identiay of bomb
RS who attacked the Weehawken To-
al on the West Shore railroad at
;ranton Junction, New Jersey.
'assengers, most of them returning
were thrown into
anic when the bombs were hurled
t the train as it crossed a culvert
n an isolate cut. Steel cars, which
,ithstood the shock minimized the
amage but many windows were
roken and ten persons were in
uredL.
Mystery surrounded the origin OF
he shop fire at Wichita Falls, Texas.
he flames were discovered by q
,atchman and spread rapidly