Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-05-17 | Page 1 | Drunken Italians Tear up Track

DRUNKEN ITALIANS TEAR UP TRACK Attempt to Wreck Passenger Train on Baltimore Ohio TI TIMEKEEPER M FLAGS TRAIN TRAI N DI r r Would Have ct Very V heavy Ilen y V 0 O. Ma May 1 Two G.-Two Two hundred drunken Italians tore toie up the Baltimore BaIt Balti more mOlO and amid V Ohio railroad near Attica eighteen miles west of this city elly late this lila at afternoon In iii an effort to wreck a fast cast hound bound train on the main line Their work was discos cov cred b by a timekeeper who sho hogged Has theL the train L Ia in A deputy Sheriff h and antI twenty five o fi constables were dispatched from Crom rein Tiffin Tiffin TI fin rIo and amI quieted the foreigners nels and nod ye- ye re restored stored order Half 1 o of the Italians were ere paid oft off yesterday and ond the usual debauch fol followed oJ- oJ towed lowed today They had been in an uS-I uS ugly mood all da tiny day because the they claimed they had been underpaid When Then a work train with a hundred of oC f their helm countrymen arrived ed this aft aft- ernon to take talie their Jobs they compelled com corn lIe idled lied them at nt the point of or guns suns to quit work and join bum them An In Indignation In- In meeting was held and otHI It was decided to damage c railroad property properly The rue ringleaders began to tear teal up the track Irack With shouts an and amid 1 yells th they continued the work until an eighth of or a n mile of or track had hall been damaged Then the they retreated F F. J. J Dell a n. timekeeper happened happen happen- ed along alons- and discovered the torn up track He lie succeeded in flagging the train when it was tas within a a. few row feet reet o of DC the debris This train is one of or time the fastest on the Baltimore and amI Ohio's main line hue It H generally passes Attica at tho rate of Df fifty miles an hour Today It was heavily loaded with passengers But for Cor the timely discovery discover tho ho train and the loss 1088 would have been ditched of f life liCe would have been heavy