The record-union., 1892-07-19
THE Trouble AT OLD MISSION.
story Told by One OF the Victims OF
the Tragedy.

-A-S -ISIJbIA Al OLIj ML1SlOH.
story Told by one OF the Victims Of
the Tragedy.
The following was 4 special dispatch to
the san Francisco Cutt OF Monday. and is
portion OF the news evidence concern
Ing the tragedy alleged 10 have been en-
acted near Old Mission. Ceur d'Alene
region:
WALLACE Gdaho), July l7.-John Ab-
bolt, the man who was Shot III the fight
10 10 ga Mission, now hes III a critical con-
utlon al the hospital here. ON a cot near
oF lies his father with ghastly wound in
ms mp. he elder ADDolt was shot in
the battle at Sem. Young Abbott will
scarcely pull through. He was shot with
a Winchester through the right breast.
the ball penetrating his lung. emade a
statement to-nIght tOt the CuIt CORRESPOND
eHt, although ne was very weak, gasping
for breath and doubled up with pain. He
SAID:
We were sitting around waiting for
the boat TO come along, W hen men ran up
TO US saying, Get out, you --, or we
viii XIII you! We started to run. Armed
men rushed cut from every railroad ear
and cluinp OF brush, and one man on
horseback shot me and fell. Fully -
men were shooting at us. The man on
the horse had nustache and q short.
stubby beard. While the other armed
men were driving US into the meadow,
the man on the horse ran ahead and
headed US off. l saw six men shot down.
/ saw them fall. After the armed men
had driven my companions out OF sight
| got up and started back TO the landing.
L passed one man lying by tree and
spoke TO him, but he did not move, [
couldn't get him up, and, as [ supposed
he was dead, | left him.
OhIclai news was received tonight that
two men, robbed and wounded. stripDed
of their clothing and almost naked. had
arrived at Wolfe Lodge, near the middle
OF Fourth OF July Canyon. They tell a
pltlful tale of the massacre. They saw
that between the Old Mission and Wolfe
Lodge are lying fully eleven men
wounded or dead. The most tiendish
barbarities were practiced.
The entire Cpur d'Alene country is
aghast at the massacre, and the affair has
been the death blow to the Miners Union
in this region.
Two men We're taken from the bospital
in this place and placed in prison. They
had been identified as the men who placed
the dynamite in the penstock that blew
up the Frisco mill
The hospital authorities are very strict.
Frequent attempts are made by the union
men to slip into the hospital to finish the
hIIllng O4 IHe nOn-unlOn miners wounded
at Gem, and several plots to Go this have
already been frustrated.
Charles j. Peterson, one of the men
wounded at Gem, will die. He was struck
on the head and his skull fractured by
the butt end of Winchester rifle after
he had surrendered to the strikers.
Charles Smidt was jumped on by a half
dozen men, kicked and bruised, and his
face jabbed with the sharp steel miner's
candle-sticks. Similar hideous stories of
barbarltleS are becoming known daily.
Tonight affairs are in the hands of The
troops, and martial law will prevail for
fully six months. Though the militia
may be sent back home soon the regulars
will remain until anarchy has been com
pletely stamped out and until the mines
are all running and employers are safe to
hire whom they wish.
President O'Brien is in prison here
with l5O Of his men, and three Justices of
the Peace, sympathiZers and agitators,
are with o. Brien in prison. Although a
prisoner O'Brieu is still the ruler OF his
men, and when rations are brought in
the prisoners all stand back until he ap-
portions out the food. His word is law.
and his followers would, unarmed as they
are, attack Colonel Thaker's command of
25O regulars if O'BrieG gave the word. In
fact If O'Brien were out in the mount
aims his power for harm would be
worse in the Coeur d'Alenes than an ac-
tive volcano.