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Show rowly averted. Dynamite was found today strewn along the tracks near Mirames and an attempt was made to blow up a bridge spanning the River Loire nearby. A bomb was found under tho rail-toad rail-toad bridge near Flrmlny. which was intended to explode upon tho pnssag of the first train. Another bomb was found In a first class compartment I of a train near Reullly. The bomb contained enough dvnauiite to blow the train to atoms. Tho express from Marseilles for Nice was derailed and the working parts of several trains were found to have boon tampered with. Six hundred women, wires of strikers, strik-ers, attempted to parade tonight. They carried placards summoning the women wo-men of France to oppose tho "scandalous "scan-dalous opulence of the financiers" and help to ease tho misery of the small wage earners The poltce orrostfid a number of the women. BOMB OUTRAGES IN FRENCH CAPITAL PARIS, OcL 17. Bomb outrages In connection with the railroad 6trlko reached a climax today In an attempt to wreck a passenger train at Versailles. Ver-sailles. A bomb was thrown at the entrance of the tunnel to the Chan-llers Chan-llers station at the moment a passenger passen-ger train was due from Dreux. Tho bomb struck the limb of a treo and. bounding orf, landed beside tho track, exploding wlih terrific force. A group of soldiers guarding tho tracks nearby had a narrow escape from Injury. They report having seen three persons on tho bridge Ju6t before be-fore the explosion Neither the tracks nor the tunnel was damaged. Great Bomb Explosion. So great was tho force of tho explosion ex-plosion that all Versailles was shaken shak-en up. Thousands of persons ruwheu to the scene and police guards were Immediately straightened along tho line. This and other outrages have spurred the police and military authorities au-thorities to new efforts. Tho police attributed the bomb throwing to an-archlstj an-archlstj and lighting revolutionists. Thty do not think the rank and fllo of the strikers revponslble and the frequency of the attempts convinces them that they are confronted with a lar reaching conspiracy on the part of the anarchists, who are taking ad vantage 01 ihe strike agitation to destroy de-stroy property and terrorize the public. pub-lic. Attempt to Wreck Train. Attf tupts to wreck trains ore reporter! report-er! from various parts of France, and serious catastrophes have been nar-1 |