RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 5

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

TUBE TRAINS IN COLLISION. TWENTY PERSONS INJURED. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received September 1, 9.10 a.rn. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Twenty wore injured througn a rearend collision between two Hudson tube trains on the Jersey side.—A. and N.Z. cable. NARROW ESCAPE OF EXPRESS. PILE OF ROCKS ON TRACK. Received September 1, T 0.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 81. Tho attempt to derail the Illinois Central express near Council Bluiis, lowa, failed. A work car preceding the flyer by a few minutes crashed into a pile of rocks laid on the track. One man was killed and two fatally injured.—A. and N.Z. cable. DYNAMITING CONSPIRACY. THREE MEN ARRESTED. Received September 1, 9.10 a.in. CHICAGO. Aug. 31, The police have arrested throo men on a charge of conspiracy to dynamite tho Now York Central’s fast Western express.—A. and N.Z. cable. RAILWAY BRIDGE BLOWN UP, BLAME FOR THE STRIKERS. Received September 1, 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 31._ A railway bridge over a street in Wilmington, Delaware, has been blown up. Tlio strikers are blamed,—A, and N.Z, cable. MICHIGAN TRAIN WRECK, DEFENCE OF SUSPECTED MEN. Received September 1, 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 51, The Chicago attorneys representing the striking railway shopmen of the American Federation of Labour have announced (bat they have obtained a million dollar defence fund to investigate the arrest of the four men accused of wrecking the Michigan Central train. —A. and N.Z. cable. THE HERRIN MASSACRE. JURY’S FIRStInDICTMENT. NEW YORK, Aug. 30. At Marion, Illinois, tho grand jury returned its first indictment in connection with the Herrin massacre, charging a Marion citizen with firing a shot by which he killed Superintendent McDowell, of tho Southern Illinois coal _ mine, and a warrant was immediately issued for his arrest. The indictment, after only three days' investigation, came as a distinct surprise since doubt had been expressed whether anything effective would result from tho sittings.—A. and N.Z, cable.