From The Indianapolis Times, Wednesday, July 14, 1926: The ten-day old streetcar men strike turned violent last night when four streetcars were derailed and damaged by explosives placed on the tracks. Sixty passengers were shaken up, several injured, by the blasts that tore up streets and tracks and blew out the windows of nearby houses. Nerves of streetcar crews, passengers, and residents along the car tracks were made jumpy. Strike leaders charged that employees of the Indianapolis Street Railway Co were responsible for placing the explosives while the street railway president denied this assertion claiming “it is hardly plausible” the company would damage its own property. The strikers received donations from other union workers and were warned against violence. Five business leaders of the citizen’s peace committee will submit a plan of action to seek a settlement of the strike.