Show PRICES TUMBLE ON PRIES CHICAGO BOARD I Emergency Emergency A. A Action as to Rail Rai Blockade Cause CHICAGO May 22 Hun Hug Hue breaks pr In prices and tremendous dou pressure to s sell 11 l have hV kept the board o of ot trade in neaTly nearly cons constant nt turmoil this w week ek k Emergency action ta taken n to end the railroad traffic blockade bro brought ht about the severest of the setbacks In in grain values value but confidence of holders holder bad bd pr preys previously v been much disturbed by general credit tightening and b price slashing dashing slashing in department stores store throughout the coune country coun- coun i try r with a week H ago porn 2 f tation this o ware t to 20 cents lower e oats down o 3 cents to i ion iono 36 t 7 Hr c cents and provisions r off f 50 cents 0 71 Before the doWnward sweep of prices price began In the corn market new top tOI for tor the season had been reached largely as ast 1 t of unlikelihood of Imme imme- clate relief from the can scantiness of grain Iraln supplies at the chief railroad distributing center centers Then a meeting of the United States State labor board In Chicago Chicago to deal deat with t tOte e switchmen's strike tended ene somewhat to o pull pul down but th the f t real na crash cruh followed the failure of f two Kansas anus banks bank burdened by unwieldy loans loan on grain Ensuing Ensuing En En- suing lulnG rapid b bearish b arieh developments were capped by the inte interstate state commerce commission corn com m r og mission putting the railroads back on a unified working working basis baele pats c collapsed lapsed with wih corn Provisions Provision i I were ere grain depressed by th the steep tep descent of f |