The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-17
Soldiers Gathering in the Ceur
d'Alene Miners.
ESCAPE OUT OF THE QUESTION.
Troops Hold Mountain Passes and Ref
ugees Must Starve or Surrender.
Taken Along to tho Prison Camp
Proclamation by tho President-No
Massacre In Fourth Of July Canyon.

SPOKANE, July 16-No startling develop
ments were reported from Cmur d. Alene
today. The investment of the military is
daily being made stronger, and arrests con-
tinue, but that in substance tells the whole
story. The imprisoned miners are silent
and seem dazed by the suddenness with
which the non-union miners were restored
to the Bunker Hill and Sullivan. Colonel
Carlin went to Mullan today This was
the last general rendezvous of the strikers,
and some of the hardest characters were
gathered there. They heard of the
approach of the troops, however, and
when Colonel Carlin got there the town
was almost deserted. All night long the
strikers had been carrying provisions into
the hills. Only few arrests were made,
among them Justice of the Peace Fraser
and Postmaster Marsh. Both are sympa-
thizers with the cause of the union. 1t is
thought that Marsh was arrested more as
a witness than as a culprit. Both
are newspaper men. Fraser edited
weekly in the mines, and Marsh
was at one time proof-reader
on Chicago paper. The troops that went
to Burke met with more success. CAPTAIN
Bubb stationed his men from the depot TO
the mouth of the mines, and when the
miners were hoisted they were marched
straightway to the train without being
given time to change their clothing or eat
their dinner. This occasioned consider
able indignation among the inhabitants of
the town. 1t is evident the strikers are
conquered for the present.
WALLACE, Idaho, July 16-Tonight 1. 600
United States troops guard the C@ur
d'Alene mining district, and martial law
in Shoshone county is fully established.
Where was formerly confusion and ex-
citement is now quiet and order and the
steady tramp of the military. Arrests
have been continued all day, and about
400 union miners and citizens are now
held as prisoners throughout the district.
Colonel Thacker, of the Fourteenth
United States infantry, is in command
here in Wallace. Under his control he
has seven companies of forty men each,
and he is expecting reinforcements. Con-
fined in the buildings about his headquar-
ters are 200 prisoners, including those
brought from Burke. Quarters for the
prisoners are limited, and 1t is feared it will
be impossible to find sleeping accom-
modations for them. Colonel Thacker
says they are state prisoners and the state
must provide for them. Reports from the
entire district say miners submitted
quietly to arrest. Some of the miners
have gone to the hills, but all the regular
exits are closely guarded, and their only
hope of escape is by very hard travel over
the Saint Joe range into Montana; but it
is thought that hunger will drive them
back into the valley, where they will be
compelled to surrender.
The Grand Army post at Murray was
called out tonight to prevent the escape of
any miners from that quarter. They cap
tured four fugitives who were on the way
to Montana.
The coroner's inquest has been post
poned until July %.
WARDNER, Idaho, July 16.-TSpecial l.
Law and order leagues have been formed
in every town in the Ceur d. Alene dis
trict. They will endeavor to keep out the
lawless element of the mines. One fact
not previously made public is that the ex-
press companies did not for week ending
this morning deliver or carry treasure.
fearing robbery by parties of the rioters
who had threatened to hold up trains. It
is remarkable circumstance that all but
two of the Democratic central committee
of Shoshone county are among the prls-
oners.
Lieutenant Helmick, of the Fourth cav
airy, who was sent to Fourth of July can
yon to investigate the reported outrage and
massacre there of scabs, has not officially
reported to General Csrlin. but in pri-
vate letter he has said that he met many
of the men who were pursued by rioters.
They were in a pitable condition, hungry
and cold. No bodies have yet been found,
and probably no murders were committed.
A Ii is nniet in and ahnut Wardner