Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-14
MARTIAL LAW IN IDAHO.
Excitement Continues at a
High Pitch.
Outlawry in the Ceur d'Alene
Country.
Fugitive Non-Union Miners Massa-
cred in Cold Blood.
Bridges Blown Up to Delay the Advance
of Troops-Later Dispatches ReA
port the Union Miners
Disbanding.
BY the Associated Press.]

BY the Associated PIess.]
BOISE, Idaho, July 13.-Excitement
over the situation in the Coeur d'Alene
continues at high pitch, and the news
being received tends to increase it. The
governor today declared martial law in
Shoshone county.
The first message read by the gov
ernor this morning was from General
Ruger, in answer to the governors re-
quest Of Tuesday for more troops. In
his message General Ruger says:
ST ordered yesterday the available
troops from Fort Sherman and five COM
panies of infantry from Vancouver. to
proceed to the scene of the trouble at
once. The troops left both places early
this morning. The force from Vancouver
will reach there about as quick as those
could from Walla Walla. They are
mainly cavalry at the latter place, pnd
not so we'll suited for duty. The in
fantry OF that post, and also OF Fort
Spokane, has been ordered to be ready
to move. The command from Missoula
is at Mullen.
NON UNION MEN ROBBED AND SHOT.
Later in the day the governor received
dispatch from Judge Hepburn, saying
"No troops have arrived yet. Carlin
did not leave Harrison Landing until
9 O'Clock this morning. The strikers
took 1872 of our unarmed miners to the
mouth Of Fourth of July cafion, near
Cataldo. last night, and after robbing
them, fired on them. We know of at
least two killed. They are preparing to
60 through the same performance with
200 more this afternoon. They first
start them running, then shoot them
down like dogs. The delay in getting
troops is unaccountable."
REINFoRcEMENTs NEEDED.
During the afternoon "a message was
received from Inspector General Curtis
of the state troops, showing that he was
with Colonel Carlin, from Fort Sherman,
at Cataldo. He said they would neea.
reinforcements before morning on the
strikers.
The governor has given General Cur
tis a general order to protect property,
preserve life, enforce the law, and sup
press violence. The details of the move
ments of the troops, etc have bsen left
entirely with General Curtis.
STRIKERS IN COMPLETE POSSESSION.
During the afternoon the governor
held conversation by wire with Judge
Hepburn, in Spokane. The latter said
in substance:
'The strikers have complete possess
sion of the district. No reliable news is
obtainable from Wardner, and none
from any part of the section except that
furnished by the military officers now in
the field. The militia and troops from
Fort Sherman are at Cotaldo, seventeen
miles west of Wardner, with General
Curtis. They will not move until REIN
forcements arrive"
MASSACRE IN FOURTH OF JULY CANON.
Mr.. Hepburn gave fuller particulars
of the massacre in Fourth of July
cafion. He said that this morning
twelve bodies were picked up in the
canon. They were riddled with bullets.
A number of non-unionists were
wounded, but they were carried away
by their comrades. Today 200 more
non-union men were sent out of Ward
ner on board the cars, guarded by mem
bers of the miners union, who left the
train when it was few miles out of
town.
RAILROAD PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Superintendent Dickinson, of the
Northern Pacific, telegraphed the gov
ernor from Tacoma this afternoon that
their tracks and bridges had been de-
stroyed in the vicinity of Mullen and
Wallace, and that the wires had been
cut. They will hold the county respon-
sible.
Another message to the governor says
that several non-union men have been
blown up. The union miners propose
to fight the troops to the death.
| THE MINERS WEAKENING.
Governor Wiley received several dis
patches between 9 and 10 O'Clock to-
night. General Curtis telegraphed from
Cataldo that the miners were weaken
ing and arrests could be made as soon
as the officers got there.
Colonel Carlin telegraphed from
Cataldo that it was rumored that the
rioters had dispersed and gone home,
and that he would move up to Wardner
tomorrow morning.
Deputy Marshal Snyder telegraphed
from C@ur d'Alene city that he had just
returned from Wardner, and that the
strikers there had loaded the railway
track and bridges and the concentrator
at the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines
with dynamite, ready to blow up the
| troops on their arrival.
General Ruger telegraphed that zoe
additional troops had been ordered from
Fort Keogh.
The governor has telegraphed General
Curtis to all persons implicated in
the recent outrages.