Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-12 | Page 1 | Shopmen and Rail Guards Get Whipped

SHOPMEN AND RAIL GOARDS GET WHIPPED Mob of 1000 Seizes Workers and Applies Lash Vigorously DALLAS, Tex. Juh 12. One man I was aerlOUSly slu.l and a dozen others. ! some of them deputy U S marshals ! on guard at the M bsourl, Kansas an I Texas shops at Denison. were kidnap-ed, kidnap-ed, taken to the woods and beaten by' a inob of l.OOu a Denison early today, according to reports to th Katy general gen-eral offices here. J. W. Pike was the man shoi. The reports said the mob attacked railway guards nd employe- In Isolated Isolat-ed sections near the Missouri. Oklahoma Okla-homa and Gulf railroad shops "fcallway guards were kidnaped and whisked away In automobiles to the river bottoms where they were beaten said H B. MeGec general manager of j the Kal here. FFAJtN BLOODSHED. "We have been busy this morning searching for the men who were carried car-ried to the woods ami assaulted," Mr. MeGre said. I'nless there are troops in Denison before nightfall, there will be more bloodshed!" li was intimated here the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road would follow the lead of the Texas and Pacific and ask Governor Noft immediately for btate troops, A request to the -overnor of Texas for troops to protect Texas and Pacific Pa-cific workmen at Dallas was made by J D. Lancaster, receiver for the road, li nd was forwarded to Governor Xeff ai st 1 -iiviUe the adjutant genii.,' gen-ii.,' pell bout comment, GI KS NO DKTAIL. Mr McGee said he could not gle details of the affair, nor the names of anv of the men reported kldnap-d. All I can say is that a mob of 1.-OOt 1.-OOt wild men broke loose and attacked railwav employos." he said. oo