TRAIN WRECKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1922, Page 5

TRAIN WRECKERS.

UGLY PHASE OF STRIKE. TROUBLE IN AMERICA. ONE ATTEMPT SUCCEEDS. PASSENGERS INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 17, 11.20 p.m. New York, July 17. Attempts to wreck trains, as a result of the railway strike, occurred in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont. Texas and West Virginia. One effort succeeded at St. Johnsburg, an important town in Vermont, and several passengers were injured.

A GROSS OUTRAGE. 100 MEN POISONED. AT RAILWAY MESSROOM. Received July 17, 5.5 p.m. Chicago, July 16. A hundred men who replaced the striking shopmen in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad were seriously poisoned after eating in the railway messroom. The city health au*j thorities believe the poison was intro- j duced in the milk served to the work- | men. The superintendent of the railroad i companies’ terminal here declares he re- i reived an anonymous letter of warning,' but disregarded' it. The men are violently ill, but it is believed they will recover. ARBITRATION REJECTED. GOVERNMENT ACTION HELD OVER. Washington, July 15. President Harding announces that the miners have rejected his arbitration proposal, but the Government plan to relieve the situation will not be announced till Monday, when the mine owners’ reply to the proposal is expected. The railway strike situation throughout the country is also becoming more ! and more disturbed. At one place in the Far West, where the mail trains are stopped, the Post Office Department is using motor-lorries to ransport the mails.*' Aeroplanes are also held in readiness for the same purpose. FRUIT-GROWERS AFFECTED. New York, July 16. Fresno (California} frnit-growens have petitioned President Harding and the Governor of California to facilitate the transportation of the fruit crop. They declared that the crop, valued at 200 million dollars, was endangered because of the crippled railway services.