Show WILL PL E A M E LOSS OF PLANS FOR FEDERAL STATE AND CITY investigation OF EASTLAND ACCIDENT electric er employed Emp loye 0 declare claro W western e s t e r n they T h e y were almott almost boex compelled p beirl e d to purchase T tickets for s 1 on for fear fea r of losing petition positions chicago plans for investigations by federal state and city official caal bod lea iles to determine who was to blame for the ca capsizing of the steamer eastland in the th e chicago chic ago river saturday with a IL loss of hundreds of lives have been completed states attorney hoyne in pursuing his investigation has seized correspondence spon dence which had passed betge between en officers of the western electric employees plo organization which gave the picnic and the indiana transportation company operating too the E eastland and four other steamers set aside to carry more than persons ackois the jake lake on this excursion the states attorney asserted aise ted tuat this correspondence disclosed the tact fact that the steamer company had advised those in charge of the picnic that t the he more tickets sold the greater would be the rebate paid to the employees organization ticket tickets were to be gold sold to employed emp loyes of the western electric company for 75 cents at the factory or 1 at the wharf according to the states attorney the letters he took showed that there would be a re foliate hate of one third on all tickets over and something less on n those above 2600 complaint had already been made by several emp employee loyes of the western electric electrio company that they bad had been almost compelled to purchase tickets for the excursion for foar the foremen would discriminate against them the picnic to michigan city has been an art annual affair and these men said that employed emp loyes who had refused to buy tickets in previous years had been discharged although probably without the sanction tion of executives of the company to the confusion contu ilon ot of determining the total number of lives lost there wa was added much wrangling among officers officer of different jurisdictions over tentative plana 1 to right the eastland which stull lies on its port side where it sank within twenty feet of the south bank ot of the river aich which I 1 Is feet wado at that point just west of the alak street bridge estimates by marine engineers showed that it would take from ten ter to thirty days to put the eastland on its it keel it was aid said that until the ship was removed it could not be de ter mined how many it any bodies had bad been caught under the hull and super structure plans to ao use dynamite in raising bodies imbedded in mud were abandoned for the time being tor for tear fear the explosions might destroy any evidence the ship could give of possible mismanagement of the water ballast eastern system said by several marine engineers to be the probable cause of the capsizing |