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Show HUH1BEB PURSUE Ditching of the Royal Blue Flyer at Chewfoii, Pa., Stirs Region. BIG REWARD OFFERED STIMULATES INTEREST Opinion Is That Men Familiar With Railroading Are the Criminals. NEWCASTLE, Pa., Sept. Over n hundred detectives are hero tonight straightening out a maze of bewildering clues that may lead to the discovery of the person or persons who are responsible respon-sible for ditching the Royal Blue flyer enroutc from New York to Chicago at Chewton. Tonight tho consensus of opinion was expressed 1)3' 0110 of the Baltimore & Ohio police, when ho said: "The, train wreckers arc in Iho vicin-itj" vicin-itj" of Newcastle. TI103- have not attempted at-tempted to fly nor will U1C3'." Not Amateur's Work. Tt is general' believed that the wreck was that of either experienced rail-' wny mon or at least persons familiar with tho operation of the railwa3' and its train schedules. All of tho injured at the local hospitals will recover. Seventeen Sev-enteen persons aro being cared for at the railway company's hospital. Late todri3' $4-1.000 was deposited at a local bank bv railwa3r secret service men to the credit of Henry Millard of Lafarge, is., who lies injured at the Shenago sanitarium. Millard carried a grip containing this amount in negotiable nego-tiable bonds, securities and cash and had placed the satchel under a scat in tho da3r coach. When tho train was ditched the satchel was lost for a time, but recovered by railway employes. Bloodhounds on Trail. With bloodhounds on the' trail and a $25,000 reward offered for tho appro-hension appro-hension of tho person or persons who earl3' toda3' wrecked the Royal Blue limited, tho fast New York-Chicago Baltimoro & Ohio rnilroad flyer, railroad rail-road police, county deputies and local officers are searching tho vicinil3' of Chowton 6iding, Wampum, and tho little lit-tle settlements intervening. From Wampum, a small foreign settlement set-tlement near here, came the report at noon toda3' that tho train-wreckers had been surrounded in a slaughter house b3 railroad police who had been led there by bloodhounds. With "many officers on the ground, the mon responsible for tho train wrecking can hardb' escape Insistent that the attempt to snnfi out the lives of the hundreds of persons should not go unpunished, un-punished, tho railroad posted notices at the railroad stations today offering $25,000 for information leading to tho arrest and conviction of the man or men implicated in the ditching of the flyer. After the Big Reward. Tho roward immediately brought from Pittsburg and eastern Ohio points a score of private detectives troni detective agencies. New Castle is in a fever of excitement. excite-ment. Congregated .at the corners arc groups of tho striking machinists of the Baltimoro & Ohio road and the striking cmployos of tho tin mills here. Tho men are loud in the denunciation of the parties who wrecked the fl3'cr nnd deii3r allegations that one of their number might have been mixed in tho atTair, ELL WOOD C1TV, Pa., Sept. Two men were arrested hero tonight on suspicion of being connected with the wrecking of the Ro3'al Blue fl3'cr near Chewton Siding. Superintendent Dele-hanty Dele-hanty of the Baltimore & Ohio rnilwaj' police stated over tho telephone that no believed the men would make confessions con-fessions before morning. |