Dynamite Threats and Social Dangers
Recently a track-walker found under the rails of the Monongahela Railroad at Leekrone, nine sticks of dynamite. If they had not been found by the track-walker, the jar of the train would have exploded them. They were opposite a magazine of a powder company, in which was stored 20,000 pounds of powder and 500 pounds of dynamite. In all probability this whole magazine of explosives would have been set off, and there is no knowing the loss of life and other damage that would have resulted. This is only one of the many instances of similar attempts at dynamiting that have occurred recently in various parts of the country, and it shows the desperate characters that we have in these times, and the dangers that are threatening us because of the grafting, the political intrigues, and the general lowering of the moral tone. There seems to be an absolute inability to get hold of these desperadoes and correct these evils. Conditions as they actually exist in society everywhere should cause very earnest thinking on the part of all sane and sensible people.