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Show 70 POISONED ON FOOD GIVEN NEW SHOP MEN ! Health Officials Nov; Scan Grub Now Being Served to Strikebreakers CHICAGO. July 17.-Seventy new, shop employes of the Chicago. Mll-1 waukee & St Paul railroad aol seven city policemen were suffering today jfrom poisoning us a result of eating food served to railroad strikebreakers.; jThe8e men were stricken during the, last few days, ten of them Sunday ' ScoreE of health department workers were assigned to cover every r i waj i.vard in Chicago to rigidly inspect all j foods 6ervcd to workers to prevent re-, currenee of the trouble The police-j men stated th.n they had en lunch in mnlng cars provided by tho railroads. rail-roads. It was indicated today that Dr. liuls U. Velt. in charge of the investigation inves-tigation into the origin of the poison, had information which ho expected would lead tu th.' d8 0 Brj Of the I ul- prlts. Examination of the milk served to the workers had been mad C. S. Christopher, sufiei lntendent of terminals of the railway eompan Issued Is-sued the following stai ment today: We cannot Imagine bow th- food could have been adultered. "We fed 300 men on the day the first reports of the Illness came In. Forty of thorn complained and wo immediately start. -d an inv eytlgiition." |