Any person who is not a director, agent, or other officer of a railroad company which owns a railroad situated in this state and who conspires with a director, agent, or other officer of such company to do any act with the intent and purpose of wrecking the company or who induces or agrees with any person who is a director, agent, or other officer of said company to do any act with the intent and purpose of wrecking said company, although the company is not thus wrecked by the act, shall be guilty of the felony of attempting to wreck such company and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years.