The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-07-16
WORK OF DYNAMITERS.
Psrpstratsd BY . Aaddeasd Hob Of
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The Canyon Creek horror and car.
mage Of men and property commenced
on July 18th, $50 4 m. The Miner,
Union had been concentrating their
men and forces At Wallace, Burke, Ward.
ner Mullan. and Gem, from July 10th
to July 18th. When the men left their
boarding house At the Gem mine, there
was three fired on by the Union miners
aud killed before they got across the
X. X. track. in front Of White and Ben
der's store. When the shooting CON-
menced the Gem employees run for the
Gem concentration for their arms, got on
the inside and fired on the Union Min.
en- and killed four. In the meantime
the fight kept up until half past ten.
Meantime they had dynamited the Gem
dam and had blown up Estler's mill,
killed six men aud wounded ten and no
one knows how many are under the
Esther mill. Estler mill was blown up
With dynamite sent down the penstock
and tramway. All the employees of the
Frisco were in the mill at the time
After the blowing up Of the Frisco mill
the men in the Gem concentrator sur.
rendered, for they had everything
ready to blow up the Gem concentra-
tor. The dead and wounded were
taken to Wallace. The Union holds
Canyon Creek and have a dead line"
and will not let any one in or out.
They also forbid the passage of trains.
A most dastardly outrage was per-
petrated at the Old Mission last Tues.
day evening. While the non union
miners, about eighty or ninety in mum.
Der. who had been dnven out of Gem,
were awaiting the arrival Of the steam.
er Oakes. they were fired upon by q
party Of Union men killing and wound.
ing . number, the survivors ran to the
woods for shelter, followed by the
strikers who shot the fugitives when
sver an opportunity offered. One Of
The party told US that his pardner was
hot down by his side while they were
for cover. Another told us that
while In hiding he saw q man killed
Ind robbed then thrown in the river,
Firing could be heard at short intervals
n every direction until after dark. Our
Informant could not tell how many
rere killed in the first discharge as
everything was in such great confusion.
man attempted to swim the
liver to make his escape, was fired upon
md made to return and was robbed Of
lis clothing and then told to skip. An.
'ther while fleeing for his life was shot
lown close to another party in hiding,
ne Of the murderers made the remark,
hat the murdered man had stuff. they
'roceeded to rob the dead man in the |
most approved style Of . border high |
vayman,
Men are stopped every few hundred |
ards BY sentries armed with winches-
err and revolver, and made give an
ccount Of themselves, - to where they |
re from, where they are going and |
heir business generally, they are or.
erred to leave the country and not re-
urn at their peril.
Three companies of the twenty fifth
infantry, "Colored," stationed at Mis-
olua, Mont, Captain 1. @. Sanborn in
ommand, passed through the city on
heir way to the Ceur d'Alene mines,
thursday morning. Their attempt to
zach the scene of the trouble from
iissoula proving futile in consequence
{ the destruction Of bridges and rail.
Dad tracks, they were compelled to re.
urn to Missoula and take the Northern
'acific to this place. They were q fine
'oktng lot Of men. and numbers Of
hem have been In the service fifteen and
wcnty years. They were jolly lot and
eemed to think or care but little about
be mission which they were on.
Mr.. w. E. Finch, brother Of John A.
inch, and Mr.. John A. Moore went to
Volt Lodge, Wednesday, with wagon
nd provisions for the survivors of the
lission massacre. There are four men
Wolf Lodge badly wounded, who
ould not be removed to this place. of
he eighty men who were at the Mis-.
ion at the time Of the raid, twenty five
emain unaccounted for, who are sup
osed to have been killed In the woods