The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-12
A BIG BATTLE AT A MINE.
FOUR MEN KILLED AND a BUILD
ING BLOWN UP.

Union and Non-union Workmen the
Combstsnts - The Non-union Men
Hang Out a Flag of Truce and Sur
render-Sixty OF Them Under Guard
at Headquarters.
WALLACE, IDAHO, July 1.-THE strained
situation in the Coeur d'Alene labor troubles
| eliminated this morning between and f
o'clock. The events OF the day previous
| consisted of challenges from the non~union
| men at the Frisco and Gem mines to the
| union miners at the town OF Gem, and SO
seemed to indicate speedy rupture. Both
| the Gem and Frisco mines we're guarded by
men behind barricades armed with Win
ohesters, and as the canyon Is narrow where
the mines are located, the men behind the
| barricades could sweep the two railroad
tracks and country with bullets. The Gem
mine barricade is within 500 feet of
the center of the town of
Gem. This morning at 5 o'clock
miner from Gem started for Burke.
When opposite the Frisco miDe he was
| fired upon. He ran back several hundred
| yards to Gem, where the shot had been
| heard, aud soon the miners in the town
gathered with arms. They marched in a
body towards the Frisco mill, located di-
! rectly In front of the mine When scarcely
within rife range a volleY from the Frisco
mill greeted the miners aud lead whistled
all about them. They scattered and a
regular battle ensued. One miner and one
| non-union man we're killed and six wounded
| during the engagement
EXPLODED A CAR OF POWDER
The miners in the meantime went around
she hills up the canyon above the mine,
| loaded car with $50 pounds of giant pow
! der and sent the car down the track toward
the Frisco mine. Directly in front of the
| mill an explosion occurred, shattering the
mill to splinters, making it a complete
| wreck.
| The nou-union men showed a white flag
and surrendered. They were marched
down to the miners union hall and guarded.
| While the fight was going on at Frisco the
guards suddenly began firing volley after
volley into the town of Gem, riddling the
buildings with bullets. John Ward, citi-
| zen, was shot through the arm and Gus
| Carlson, a union miner, was shot and killed.
| Attempts to recover Carlson's body were
met with volleys from the Gem breast
| works, and when the body was recovered
an hour afterward it was lifetess, another
bullet having been sent through the breast.
| No shots were returned from Gem unrl the
armed miners from Frisco, half a mile
| above Gem, returned.
| A TRUCE.
| At O'Clock this morning a truce oc-
! CURED aud the sheriff, district attorney and
| deputy United States marshals appeared
| on the scene The train was stopped by
armed guards at the Gem mine. The sheriff
| took the mail on his shoulders and passed on
to Gem. The guards lsveled their rifles at
| him, but dropped them when they learned
| his identity. At Gem several hundred men
| were gathered in the street with rifles and
revolvers. Peace negotiations were fmme-
diately set on foot and at 10 o'clock the
main force surrendered to tho union men.
| The number killed so far as can be learned
is four and about ten wounded, though
| there may be bodies under che Frisco mill
1 Frisco and Gem were the only non-upion
| places in the east end OF Coaur d'Alene
| THERE'S still considerable exoltenent every
where, but no further trouble is expected
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
The cause of the strike was demand of
| the union miners of the district for SO 50 per
| day for every man working under ground.
| The mine owners held that unskilled labor
should be paid only s.. When the miners
| refused to accept the scale the mines were
| closed. The owners declared that the ex-
cessive freight rates were the cause of the
reduction. The lockout was begun on April
| l by the mine owners association and 5000
miners were thrown out of work. Since
then the mine owners have
been making struggle to run their mine
with noR-union men and guards The ten
| sion has been great for months, and the
| opinion has prevailed that only a spark was
needed TO start the flames OF a riot. The
| example at Homestead and the decision of
the United States courts at Boise, making
perpetual injunction against the miners
union, brought matters to head.
| MILITARY ORDERED OUT.
BoIEs CITY, IDAHO, July 11.-Gov. VIII
| ley has ored four companies Of the national
guard from this city to report at a. IN.
| and hold themselves in readiness to proceed
to the scene OF the Cpur d'Alene mining
| troubles. 1t is not thought that an effective
state force can be sent there. United States
| Marshal Pinkbam has laid the matter be-
| fore Attorney General Miller at Washing
| ton. the outbreak having been in defiance
| Of the federal court injunction.
A CALL FOR FEDERAL TROOPS.
| WASHINGTON, July 11.-Seuators Shoup
and Dubois OF Idaho have received a num-
| Der of dispatches in regard TO the mining
| troubles in the Ceur d'Alens region. The
| first one came about o'clock this
| afternoon from Marshal Pinkham, who
| transmitted message from a man
named John Finch at Wallace, reporting
| fighting in the Gem and Frisco mines, and
saying that I'VE are powerless to stop the
conflict and fear many Will be killed and
mills burned" With the telegram con-
tanning this information the senators went
| to call upoa the President and Secretary of
War, but wsre not able to see either,
the President being ont OF the
city and the secretary away from
the department They then called on the
Attorney General, and, after consultation
with him, telegraphed the governor a. to
the conditions under which the President
could act in the matter Of calling out fed
eral troops to aid in maintaining order and
preserving the peace.
TILE GONERNOR,s ArrrnN