Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-07-21
THE STRIKERS IN CONTROL.
The Non Union Miners After All Days
Siege, Forced TO Surrender to the
Former Internationally.
They Are Disarmed and Marched TO Wallace
1.-The Order is TO Ship Them at Once
Gov. Wiley Wired for Aid.

WALLACE, Idaho, July 12.-The out
come OF yesterdays tragedy, IN which
siX men were killed and "A dozen injured
10y pun-shots and dynamite, is sus-
pended industry, idle mills and mines,
aud terrorized workmen fleeing from
the scene OF Monday rioting and
hloodshed. The operations of the
mob We're directed toward the Frisco
and Gem mills (non-union), protected
10y harricades, behind which were post
ri armed guards. The union strikers,
b.tween two and three hundred at trong.
marched in n column to n point near
the Frisco milling plant and then scat
tering for vantage ground, opened with
rile-shots upon the guards. Other
guns ut once responded. For sometime
th,. Winchester duel went on without
advantage to the attacking strikers,
one man on either side being killed
and several of the assailants being
wounded. Giant powder was next
seized by the mob and hundreds of
p,,nmis in car was sent dow. the
tramway to blow up the Frisco mill.
This loaded engine OF destruction ex-
ploded before reaching the position
aimed at and the premature discharge
only tore the ore house to pieces.
Then the rioting force turned their at
tention to other means OF reaching
the mill and leveling it with dynamite.
The pipe conducting water TO the mill
wheel was awaited of as an agent for
the purpose, and down this pipe was
pitched 800 pounds OF giant powder.
The explosion aimed at was in this
manner accomplished and the Frisco
mill was soon reduced to n mass OF
wreckage. Numbers OF mill guards
and men are believed to be under the
tumLled timbers. Several OF the in
iured were taken out into an annex,
where many OF the non-unlon hands
were crouching for shelter. Appalled,
! at the destruction wrought 10y the ex-
plosion and the danger OF being hurled
| at any moment to death by the dyna-
mite, savagelv used by the inturiated
moa. the intimidated guards and
workmen signiiied their willingness to
capitulate. To this end "A flag OF truce
was hoisted, which the leaders OF the
mob ordered respected, and the non,
union men were made prisoners, their
arms taken from them, and in body
marched by their captors to town and
the rioting for the day ceased.
The casualties in all cannot be def
nitply stated, reports being widely
apart. -Four men are understood to
to have been killed outright 10y rifle
shots and two are said 10 have since
died OF wounds. One has died from
injuries received in the mill explosion
and at least - dozen are more or less
seriously hunt from the same cause.
Most of the non union prisoners Were
brought here by trains last night, the
order being that they must leave the
country Immediately. The remains
OF five of the victims delivered here
will receive burial as soon AS cotfins
are secured. The injured are beini
cared foI by physicians. Three or foul
ot he wounded are likely to die. The
enns and ammunition of the mil
guards were seized on the way here
and are Kept by IA party of union men
THE STRIKERS VICTORY.
At 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
300 miners from Gem, fifty oil whom
/ were dIfiltl VII u '''"i
/, to Wallace. They brought with then
a body oil prisoners consisting OF abou
ITO non-union men and five deao
bodies, anot her man, Jas. HeLnessy
lately OF Butte, Mont, be ng lett In {
house at Gem, shot through the breast
Upon the arrival here of :he prisoner
they were turned loose, and the unioI
men began to search for A. NJ. Ester
| Of th. Epllan -
whom the union men have specia
grudge. The terms on which the Gen
miners and guards surrendered wer'
that the twenty-seven Winchester
and n number OF revolvers and ZOO
rounds OF ammunition should b,
placed in the hands of disintested par
ties, two citizens and two conserva
tive union men, and that the non
union men should be shipped out o
the country today. An hour late
this agreement about the arms wa:
entered into, the union men got pos
session of all the rifles and ammuni
ton and last evening large bodies o
armed miners went down to Wardner
twelve miles distant, in wagons ant
by rail. Mines employing non-unior
men there are the Sierra Nevada, Bun
ker Hill and Sullivan. The Bunke
Hill and Sullivan have a force of 26t
men and about 100 can be armed Will
Winchester rifles. There is only on
way to reach the mine, and that ii
directly up the gulch, and the road il
steep.
If an attempt is made there agains
; the men i'm the mine there must b
serious bloodshed. The Sierra Ne
vada is exposed. The county com