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Show j Labor Chief Is Captured ! With Bombs On Santa Fe I J W. P. Seyfred, Preisident of X. M. Federation and Al-I leged Accomplices Suspected Sus-pected of Plot to Blow r i R. K. Tunnel. ALBl'QL'EUQL'E N' M., Sept. 1. W. P Se.vtred, president cf the Staid I 'dcra'.jn ot l.abo. und Andrew 3rU- no. both of Albuquerque, were arrest ed on Sjnta Fe train So. 2 at Hahn. four m'les north of hare Thursday night bj Sheriff Tony Ortls, A. H. .'ere. special neni of the dopartmeiit of Justice and Santa Fe special officers. Th" officers reported that they foun I In the men's grips three complete bombs, fuses and caps, i The men were brought to Albuquerque, Albuquer-que, and n seaifh was made M Sey-1 fred'S room, where, according to the officials. Ihey found u number of: bombs practically completed, powder nd fuses. Seyfred is a plumber and lircno a laxldriver. : rvfftelalfl of th opinion that the men had planned to blow up K.iton tuonel, which would have blocked i traffic on the main line of the Santa, iv railroad. They bad tickets to Trin-; btud. C616v when arreNted, the officers said. Seyfreq1 und liruio. when arretted' 'Claimed the .suit casc containing th bombs did not beloni; to them, accord-j ing to th-. officers. Im: later Seyfred .it nittcd that ih - gnps were '. ih, officers said. Ifnlrthsr thin this, tlv men refused to taik. The officers said after in.- two m i had bjScn arrested that Huy had re-1 leived a lip several Weeks ago that nn attempt would be made to dynamite a new bank buiidlng ; ml a r,- v h- ' now under construction h'.-ie and on which non-union workmen are cm-, ployed, it vv.is this tip. officers said, that led to the eYl'estH. TR UN I'l l Kl; s-i - i I chicagu, sci?. i i h disclosure I of a new train wrecking pJot, an at-1 tempt to blow up a train, the burning and dynamiting of bridges and other I railway property, gnasm of trai ks siugg,ng o: wonders ii ii i o'liir ucia ui ; lawtess violence marked Ihc strike of. t'ie railroad shopmcnt throughout the. country. A pile of debris heaped In the path of an expected Chicago train near. Bprlng lake, low. i. was reported toi have resulted In the death of one man! and th-? injury of thtee otiiers when' a motor hand car on which they were riding in advance of Ihe train struck The ob.-tructiun. ANOTHER 1 IT1 Mil An attempt to. blow up a Chicago' and Alton uain near Alton Illinois. Ihe bom bins' of a bridge In Wlmlng- ton. Do... and the burning of seven bridges on th" "Cotton Ueli" l.ne also I were reported simultaneously with the, srresl Of Ihree men in Chicago charg-1 -d with a plol t dynamite and wreck the New York-Chicago "Western Ex- ii-cs," of th' New York 'ential hn"S ; The latest arrests followed the hold-I ing of four other men a cused of i wrecking the Million Dollar" exptfSS Ion the Mb hlgan entral near Gary. lnd . a little more than a week ago by j removing thirty seven spikes from thci rails causing tho denth of two englue-men englue-men and efforts were being made by federal and state offhi.iis to del rmlilej whether there was any connection be-, 'tween the two groups. PLOT FOILED, i CLEVELAND, ohio. S.,t. 1. All i railroad bridges here were unde.il I guard loda following the uncovering; . of what is believed to have been nn ' attempt to blow up the Cuyahoga i Iver brUlge f.f the Uelt line railroad New York Central police reported i Thursday night that they had been I fired upon when they surprised four , men digging a hol three feet In dlam-: dlam-: ter anil rive feet deep near the central support of the bridge, south of the city limits. The returned the fire they said, but the men escaped by I swimming across the rlvor and driving driv-ing away In an automobile. The Belt lino is used exclusively ! for freight I raffle oo |