The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-14
How Monte CristO Railroad Men Demol.
ished an Infamous Dive.

MONTE CRrsro, Sept. 9.-Tspecial. J.
Workingmen from along the line of the
Everett q Monte Cristo railroad bring the
report of a riot and the total destruction
of the Blazing Tree saloon and dance
house, located about thirty miles below
here on the Getchell-Monte Cr;sto wagon
road. The Blazing Tree was companion
saloon and brothel to the notorious Blaz-
ing Stump at Getchell. and was srut in to
catch the trade of the railroaders farther
up the road. 1t is located just shove the
dive known as the Monte Cristo saloon,
which was partially destroyed by dyna-
mite fortnight ago, and is about twenty
miles out OF Getchell.
According to the report the railroad
men had become incensed at the outrages
committed in the Blazing Tree and deter
mined to wreck it. 1t was SAID that rail-
readers were at first drugged and then
robbed, and later that, becoming holder.
some of the women inmates would choose
avictim, throw blanket over his head
and in the scuffle rob him. If he resisted,
he was apt to be put out at the point OF q
revolver
Last Tuesday night about $50 men,
mainly from Bowman & Paine's camp.
headed by their foreman, marched down
the road armed with revolvers and dv-
Mantle. On reaching the Blazing Tree
they ordered Monahan, the prop.ietor, to
surrender, and that the women clear out
before the saloon was blown up. Accord
ing to one report, Monahan surrendered
and was sent flying down the road Another
report received here later gives more ex-
citing story. 1t declared that the men in
charge of the saloon-it is nos known
whether Monahan was there OF not-re-
fused TO surrender and threatened to fire
into the crowd. A number q pistol
shots were fired, and sick of
giant powder exploded near one
corner of the saloon caused the occupants
70 fly. The men took to the woyds and
the women pleaded for mercg. The
women, half dozen in number, come of
them only partially dressed, were allowed
TO get away. This they did in a hurry,
taking the road for GetcheTi, half dead
with fright.
The crowd then proceeded to etzapty the
large stock of liquor that had FAST been
received. Neg after key We're knocked in
the head, and as their contents tieyed out
some Of the half drunken Grove ALWAYS
hanging about the saloon got dogn and
drank from the stream OF liquor When the
bar was cleaned out, stick of dynamite
was set oil in the piano. shivering it into
small bits. More dynamite thea COM
pleted the wreckage of the establishment,
which afterwards took fire. The crowd
then marched back in an orderly manner
to their camps.
Great satisfaction is expressed along the
line or the railroad At the JOB. s. it will
have tendency TO clear the VALLEY of the
crowd OF thugs, thieves and disrenutable
women who have been preying on the
railroaders, smuggling them, hoidi4g them
up and robbing them of their money The
gang made its headquarters, il seemed,
about the Monte Cristo and Blazi:4g Tree
saloons and after the summary zsestruc-
ton Of the two will doubtless sex more
congenial haUnts. All OF the outrsges re-
ported have been around and below these
saloons. Between silverton, fourteen
miles below here and Monte Crists, moth
ing OF the kind has vet been knows.