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Show RAILHOAD IS SUED FOR BIG DAMAGES Twenty-Two Hen Claim They Were Decoyed Into the Pennsylvania Coal Mine. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Suits have been brought by twenty-two residents of this city who claim that during the coal strike they werf decoyed to the mines in Pennsylvania by agents of the Erie railroad and of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Coal company. Damages for $50,000 each, amounting to JUOO.OOO in alt are" sued for, and the attorney for the plaintiffs consulted with an attorney attor-ney today about bringing the matter before the grand Jury to be sworn in next Monday, The plaintiffs claim that under' pretense pre-tense of doing work for the railroad and coal companies, they were dectoyed to Hoboken, where they were locked In a car and carried, against their will, to the coal regions of Pennsylvania and compelled to act as "strike breakers," under threats of "being turned over to the fury of the miners." The men say they finally succeeded In making their way back to the city, but declare that, on their way home, they had narrow escapes from being mobbed. |