The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-07-16
ANOTHER BLOODY RIOT.
The Scene of the Labor Troubles Trans
ferred from Homestead To the
COeur fl' lcl,eA

ferr~d from Homestead To the
C0eur d'A Alenes.
The disagreement between the miners
and mine owners Of the Occur d'Alene,
over the adjustment of wages, culmi-
mated Monday in an attack upon the
non union workmen in which several
were killed on both sides and consider
able property destroyed. A dispatch
from Wallace gives the following details
of the encounter. The Gem and Frisco
non-!union mines, were guarded by men
behind barricades armed with Winches.
ters. Monday morning a miner from
Gem started for Burke, and when oppo-
site the Frisco mine he was fred upon
Soon the miners in the town gathered
with arms and marched in body to-
ward the Frisco mills. When scarcely
within rifle range volley from the mine
greeted them. They scattered and
regular battle ensued. One miner and
one non union man were killed. and per
haps six wounded during the engage
ment.
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Union Pacific car with $50 pounds of
giant powder and sent it down the track
toward the Frisco mine This attempt
to destroy the mine failed and the min
ers got upon the fume and shut off the
water and sent powder in packages
down the water pipe into the mill. A
fuse was put in the last package and
sent down. In an instant terrible ex-
ploslon occurred which shook the can
yon for miles, The non union men then
surrendered, and were marched to Min
ers' Union hall and guarded. No indig-
mites were offered after the surrender,
and while the fight was going on at the
Frisco the Gem guards suddenly began
firing volley after volley into the town
OF Gem, riddlng the buildings with bull
let's. John Ward was wounded in the
arm and Gus Carlson, union man, was
killed. Attempts to recover Carlson's
body were met with a volley, and when
the body was recovered, an hour after
wards, he was dead.
At o'clock truce occurred and the
sheriff, district attorney an6 United
States marshals appearing on the scene
peace negotiations were Immediately set
on foot and truce declared and at II
o'clock the mine force surrendered to
the union men.
In the afternoon about 300 miners
from Gem, fifty of whom were armed
with rifles, marched down to Wallace
They took with them their prisoners
consisting OF about 10 non union men
and five dead bodies, another man, James
!. Hennessy, lately of Butte, Montana
being in house at Gem shot through
the breast. Upon arrival at Wallace the
''scabs" were turned loose and the union
men began to search for A. M. Esler
r. manager of the Frisco mine, against
whom the union men have a specia
l. grudge. The terms on which the Gem
l. miners and guards surrendered were
. that the twenty-seven Winchesters anG
: a number of revolvers and 10000 rounds
of the ammunition should be placed ir
: the hands OF Iisinterested parties-twt
citizens and two conservative union mer
If and that the ''scabs' should be shipped
II out of the country.
The complete list of the dead ant
wounded, the result of the conflict a
Gem, is: Dead-James Hennessy, GU
d Carlson, John Starlich, Harry Cum
mings, livery Bean. Wounded-F. C
Wilcox, L. L. Abbott, Samuel Carver, r
,. X. Adams, Charles Smith, N. T. Hal
cron, Samuel Corkupp, Hugh Campbell
E. w. Putnam, John Whitney, Charlie
Peterson, S. G. Collins, Jno. Gaukepa9er
q Geo. Pettibone. The loss by the explo
= sion in the Frisco mill will be S125,OOC
The governor Of Idaho decided to cal
'. on the president for assistance and sen
dispatch to that effect. He starte'
the militia from Boise on special train
but as the companies are very small it i
not expected they will prove effective il
preventing further trouble. In respons
to the governors request the presiden
ordered federal troops to be sent to tn
scene of the miners trouble in Idaho
and General Schofield has ordered Ger
erals Ruger and Merritt to send troop
there.
:. Later dispatches state that Tuesda
.o night passed without incident, the mil
90 ers resting upon their arms. The co
90 ored troops ordered from Missoula, thre
W companies of colored infantry, were il
tercepted at Mullen be the blowing u
of railroad bridge at that place III
announcement was made that the Bul
ker Hill and Sullivan mines were to su
render to the strikers at 3 o'clock Wet
nesday afternoon and that if they di
not surrender at that time battle woul