The Increase of Train Wrecking
The wrecking of trains, or the attempt at wrecking, has been greatly on the increase during the past few months. Many attempts to accomplish this wholesale killing of people for gain have been reported during the recent past. The attempts are often the carrying out of the threats of blackmailers who had demanded certain specified sums of money from the railroad companies. The companies in all instances reported have refused to comply with the demands of the blackmailers and have usually taken additional precautions for safeguarding the tracks. However, wrecks have occurred which are believed to have been the work of wreckers. Some arrests have been made, but the companies continue to be threatened, and the lives of the traveling public continue to be placed in jeopardy, by these murderous-minded men, notwithstanding the fact that train-wrecking is a capital crime.