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Show A C.A TLLOAD OF SCABS. Driven Into the Swamps and Woods by an Arkansas Mob. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 2. There was great excitement in railroad circles here yes. tcrday over the ejection of a carload of 'scab" railway employes cn route from Indianapolis and Louisville to relieve the strike on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass road. The railway men had learned of their coming, and, When the train arrived, a large crowd was congregated at the depot. One man shouted to "out the hose and drop the car out," and the air brake hose, was severed in an instant . When the train started up, the mob having hav-ing failed to disconnect the engineer's signal sig-nal cord, the bell in the cab rang and the train stopped again. By this time all the cngiuc whistles iu tho yard bet'an to blow, and it seemed as though bedlam had broken loose. A hundred men rushed into the sleeper, driving the occupants, occu-pants, some forty telegraph operators, machinist! ma-chinist! and train baud-, from the car and into the swamps near by. Most of them were, driven Into the. pond, through which they floundered, followed by the infuriated men. The sleeper was recoupled to the train and it crossed the river into Little Rock, where another crowd boarded it, and with knives cut to shreds all the baggage of the unfortunate unfor-tunate men. J. H. Littlcllehl, who was in charge of the party of new men, with scy-eral scy-eral of his companions, escaped and to k the train for Texas, while the others of the party are. still hiding in the swamps, await-iiiLr await-iiiLr an opportunity to escape. The. railroad authorities are enraged at the action of their employees. The various railroad labor unions are strong in sympathy with their strikiim brethren in Te.xaB, and it is a wonder that the new mcu escaped severe peesonal In, juries. |