ers prior to the wrecks. After getting Mooney's side of the story, the Exammer asked Kline for a statement .Which lie gave defining his position. Not a line, of it was printed, but the story inferred that 14' men had beeii definitely connected with the wrecks, and that Kline was in a badly worried state over these damaging "discoveries." , As far as can be learned from the police and L C. officials, the investigation has fallen flat, as far as fixing the blame for thewrecks on any individual. Strike leaders say that one of the wrecks was caused by a flange on the locomo tive wheels being worn so thin that it split a switch.", f The burning of a pile of rub bish on a vacant lot at 97th. street and Champlain street was extin guished last night before it did any damage. But it gave the ExaJminer and the Tribune a chance for a difference of opinion. According to the Tribune,' the fire was lighted by a workman employed in the shops, who went away and left it burning. There was no damage to adjoining buildings. ' As the man was working in the shops, presumably he was a strikebreaker. The Examiner smokes a more imaginative pipe, and says "a fire .of incendiary origin, which for a jtime threatened to wipe out the shops at Burnside, broke out in the dry kilns shortly after 8 o'clock. Proniptarrival of the fire department confined the blaze Sq the dry kilns This is the sec ond mysterious fire since Satur day night. On that night about ISO feet of the fence around the building and two day coaches Were destroyed by fire.". No mention is made of the last , riighPs -fire having been sorted, by a workman in the shops. 1 The fallowing statement, sent , O by President Kline of the Black smiths to evry paper in the city, indicates his attitude toward -the investigation of the recent wrecks, now being made by "the police: To the Public Press. In Wednesday morning's, issue of the Chicago newspapers we were informed of a supposed at tempt to wreck the Illinois Cen tral passenger trains, which was immediately.charged tojthe labor unions now on strike. The wit nesses consists of boys fourteen and fifteen years playing in the back yard in the rain and fog, who weer supposed to have seen two men running out'of the Illi nois Central yards. "Accopiing to a statement of Lieutenant Mooney of the Ken sington police station, which statement he made to the under signed, it was dark and foggy j a rather peculiar time lor children to be playing in the back yard, and beiner able to see out in the railroad yards. . Ui This morning s Examiner, De cember 28thj prints a statement from Lieutenant Mooney of Ken sington police station in which he says that it looks like-another Mc Namara case. If that is the opin ion o the Chicago police, I hope