The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-14
BLOODY WORK In IDAHO.
NON-UNION MEN ROBBED AND
THEN ROBBED BY THE STRIKERS.


phonic Communication Out OFF,
Threats Thai the Troops VIII Be
Fought to the Death.
WARDNER, IDAHO. July 13.-Outwsrdly
all was quiet here last night, bus it was the
quiet Of determination and desperation.
The strikers had day OF uninterrupted
victory. They had only to demand and
receive, and as a result, they are in COM
plets possession of the mines aud mills OF tho
Bunker Hill and Sullivan and Sierre Nevada
mining companies. The nonsunion men
have been driven out of the country, and
the men, rendered desperate by long strike
and flushed with victory, are talking con
fidsntly OF meeting the military and reEu-
lar troops ana fighting them with rifle and
dynamite. All yesterday armed men gath
cred on the hills aud on the cam
yons surrounding Wardner. They
came down from Wallace on
fiat cars and hand oars and helped them
selves to whatever they needed in tho way
Of transportation. They began the days
programme by marching several hundred
strong upon the property of the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan company, threatening
Supt. V. ID. Clement with the destruction
Of the whole property unless be surrendered
the works, discharged his non-union men
and allowed them their own way. Mr..
Clement had no alternative.
READY TO BE BLOWN UP.
The mill is now loaded with powder and
dynamite and could be destroyed on O min
utes notice. The strikers elso turned their
attention to the property OF the Sierra
Nevada company with like result. 1t Is
reported that car Of dynamite has been
sent down the railroad track for the pur-
~ ba hridrao ~ IL
road and preventing the troops from COM
ing into the country. The miners expected
the troops to reach Harrison at 3 o'clock
yesterday and looked for their arrival here
in the afternoon. but, as they have not yet
arrived, it is feared that some mishap has
befallen them, or elso that they are pro-
ceeding with the utmost caution. The
miners have sent out car Of dynamite
Armed men have left town, 1t is suppoaed,
TO intercept the cavalry sent from Fort
Sherman. The excitement here is intense.
Many exaggerated stories are being cireu-
lated, it is thought, for the purpose of ter
rorizing the citizens and concsaling the real
movements of the strikers.
MORE TROOPS ORDERED FORWARD.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-Gen. Soho
field having received information that the
situation in the Coeur d'Alene mining dis
trict Of Idaho is more serious than al first
huDDOScut ihh OEuoIou Doh Dhhlc1 VI
infantry and one troop OF cavalry TO the scene
OF the trouble.
INFORMATION OF TIE DELEGATES.
The Idaho delegation in congress received
number of telegrams to-day in regard to
the troubles in the Coeur d'Alene mining re-
gion- Some of them were from W. b.
Hey burn, solicitor for one of the mining
companies, now at Spokane, Wash, and
contaided the following information: "One
hundred and thirty-two uuarmed men were
taken to Fourth of July canyon by the
strikers last night aud robbed and then dred
upon. l can't learn how many men were
killed, but 1 know OF two. The
union men are making preparations
to start 200 men out this afternoon.
We are as helpless as children. The miners
union at Wallace have just made demand
on Messrs Delashmutt and Gross that they
telegraph TO Washington to stop troops,
and IL they do not, they will blow up the
Union and Gem mills at once. The situa-
ton is very desperate. One hundred and
fifty Of the non-upion miners were being
marched out of the county this forenoon,
and l expect they will be treated like the
ones marched out last night-that is,
robbed and shot down like dogs Some of
them who escaped have arrived here
(Spokane) and gave horrible accounts Of
the affair."
Attorney General George Fl. Roberts
telegraphed that 1.-THE union miners are
driving the non-union miners out OF the
country and are numbering them. / am
afraid Curtis (the adjutaut general of the
state is captured. / hear nothing from
Carlin nor our troops The telephone and
telegraph lines are in the hands OF mobs. We
are apprehensive that Carlin and the troops
are III trouble.n
BRIDGE BLOWN UP.
I'll I'll
Pacific have just received advices from
Cnur d'Alene that the Northern Pacific
railroad bridge, together with several hun
dred feet Of track, were blown up by the
strikers west Of Mullan this morning. The
company is preparing to take all the nom
union men out of the mines this afternoon
to TekoA. The union men assert that the
moment troops appear on the scene they
will blow up the Bunker Hill and Sullivan,
Sierra Nevada and Gem mines.
The burning'of the bridge near Mullan
will hold the troops there unless they march
to Wallace aud Wardner, which is about
ten miles. 1t is now reported shat the union
men have taken Vaudslashnut OF Portland,
William Sweeney aud other mine owners,
trouble is settled. The wires are in bad
shape and it is almost impossible to get any
from Wallace. The wires have
been cut.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
BOISE CITY, IDAHO, July 13.-Gov. Wiley
has issued a proclamation placing Shoshone
county under martial law. Word has been
received that three companies of federal
troops from Missoula have arrived at Null
Ian. The other troops have not been heard
from. Adjt Gen. Curtis, who Ia in Icom-
mand for the state, and who went to Coeur
d d'Alene In advance Of the outbreak, has not
been heard from to-day and IL is feared
that he has fallen into the hands OF the
strikers. Dispatches TO the governor from
Judge Hepburn, at Spokane, says that the
union men drove 132 non-union miners out
firing on them and killing two
Supt. Dickinson of the Northern Pacific
railway telegraphs the governor from
Tacoma this afternoon that tracks and
bridges have been destroyed in the vicinity
of Mullan and Wallace and that the wires
have been cut Another message to the
governor says that several noH-union men
have been blown up, and that the union
men propose to fight tbs troops 70 the death.
THE TROOPS IN CAMP.
WASHINGTON, July 13, IL :55 p. M.-Late
tonight Senator Dubois received the fol-
lowing:
BoIEs CRY, IDAHO. July IS, 1892
Gen. Curtis. the regulars an national guards
are camped at Catalgo awaiting reinforcements.
Shoshone county is declared to be in rebellion
by proclamation Of the governor. Twelve dead