The morning call., 1892-07-18
The Story Of the Mission Massacre
Gradually Coming Out.
EVEN THE WOUNDED MEN In DANGER.
0Iiters Of the Hospital at Wallace FruStrate At-
temptS TO Enter the Place and Dispatch
the Suffering sOn.UnOn Miners.
Special to THE MoRNISe CALL

WALLACE Idaho. July 17-John Abbott.
the man who was shot in the fight at Old
Mission, now lies in a critical condition at
the hospital here. On cot near by lies his
father with a CHASTITY wound in his hip.
The elder Abbott was shot in the battle at
Cen. Young Abbott will scarcely pull
through. He was shot with a Winchester
through the right breast, the ball pene-
trating his lung. He made statement tos
night to The CALL correspondent, although
he was very weak, gasping for breath and
doubled up with pain. He said:
I'VE were sitting around waiting for the
boat to come along when men ran up to us
saying get out. you -. or we Will
kill yOuP We started to run. Armed
men rushed out from every rail-
road car and clump OF brush, and
one man on horseback shot me and
fell Fully 20 men were hooting at us
The man on the horse had mustache aud
a 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. / saw six men shot down. l saw
them fall. After the armed men had driven
my companions out Of sight got up and
started pack TO the landing. | passed one
man lying by tree and l spoke to him, but
he did not move | couldn't get him up,
and, as / supposed he was dead, l left him."
two men, robbed ana wounded. stripped of
their clothing and almost naked, had arrived
at Wolfe Lodge, near the middle of Fourth
of July Canyon. They tell a pitiful tale of
Old Mission and Wolfe Lodge are lying fully
II men wounded or dead. The most fend-
ism barbarities were practiced.
The entire Coeur d'Alene country is aghaSt
at the massacre and the affair has been the
death blow to the Miners Union IN this re-
gion.
Two men were taken from the hospital
and placed in prison. They had been iden
tilted as the men who placed the dynamite
in 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
killing OF the non-uniOn miners wounded at
Gem, and several plots TO do this have al
ready 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
buttend OF a Winchester rife after he had
surrendered TO the strikers.
Charles Smidt was jumped on by half
dozen men, kicked aid bruised, and his face
jabhed with the sharp steel miners candle
sticks Similar hideous stories of barbara
ties 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 nome soon the regulars will
remain until anarchy has been completely
stamped ont and until the mines are all run
ming and employers are safe TO hire whom
they wish.
President 0'Brien is in prison here with
$50 Of his men. and three Justices of the
Peace, sympathiZers and agitators, are with
O'Brien in prison. Although a prisoner.
O'Brien is still the ruler Of his men, and
when rations are brought in the prisoners
all stand back until he apportions out the
the food. His word is still law and his fol-
towers would unarmed as they are, attack
Colonel Thaker's command of $50 regulars
If OBrien gave the word. In fact if
O'Brien were out in the mountains his
power for harm would be worse in the
CRur d. Alenes than an active volcano