Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-12
Homestead Riot Duplicated
in the Ceur d. Alene
Mines Out West,
WITH SURRENDER, TOO.
Nine Known Fatalities on Each Side,
and 20 More Nay Be Added.
ONE OF THE MINES BLOWN UP,
and the Surviving Guards Who Held 1t
Hoist the White Flag.
no GAUNTLET RUN BY THE PRISONERS

WALLACE, IDAHO, July 1.-THE strained
situation in the Ceur d. 'Alene labor troubles
eliminated this morning between 8 and 6
o'clock. The events of the day previous
consisted of challenges from non-union men
at the Frisco and Gem mines to the union
miners at the town of Gem, and everything
seemed to indicate speedy rupture.
Both Gem and Frisco mines we're guarded
by men behind barricades, armed with
Winchesters, and as the canyon is narrow in
which the mines are located, the men be-
hind the barricades could sweep the two
railroad tracks and the country with
bullets The Gem mine barricade is within
800 feet Of the center of the town of Gem.
This morning, at O'Clock, miner from
Gem started for Burke. When opposite
the Frisco mine, he was fired upon. He
ran back several hundred yards to Gem,
where the shot had been heard, and soon
the miners in the town gathered with arms.
They marched in body toward the Frisco
mill, located directly in front Of the
mine.
The First BIoodshed of the Battle.
When hardly within rifle range, volley
from the Frisco mill greeted the miners
and lead whistled all about them. They
scattered, and regular battle ensued One
miner and one non-union man were killed,
and six wounded during the engagement.
The miners, in the meantime, went around
the hills up the canyon above the mine,
loaded car with $50 pounds of giant pow
der and sent the car down the track toward
the Frisco mine Directly in front of the
mill an explosion occurred, shatrering the
mill to splinters. making it a complete
wreck. The non-union men then showed
the white flag and surrendered. They were
marched down to the Miners Union Hall
and guarded, no indignities being offered
after the surrender.
A rumor is now current that 20 non-union
miners were killed in the mill when it was
destroyed, but it is impossible now to get
any confirmation on that point
While the fight was going on at Frisco,
the Gem guards suddenly began firing volley
after volley into the town of Gem, riddling
the buildings with bullets.
a Fight and Then a Truce.
John Ward, a citizen, was shot through
the arm, and Gus Carlson, union miner,
was shot and killed. Attempts to recover
Carlson's body were met with volleys from
ne Gem breastwork, and when the body
was recovered an hour afterward, it was
hfeless, another bullet having been sent
though the breast. No shots were returned
f1om Gem until the armed miners from
Frisco, half mile above Gem returned.
4 At O'Clock truce occurred, and the
tSherif, District Attorney and Deputy
United States Marshals appeared on the
scene The train was stopped by armed
guards at the Gem mine. The Sheriff took
the mail on his shoulders and passed on to
Gem. The guards leveled their rifles at
him, but dropped them when they learned
his identity. At Gem several hundred men
were huddled in the street with rifles and
revolvers.
Peace negotiations were Immediately set
on foot and at y o'clock the mine force sur
rendered to the union men. The number of
killed. so far as can at present be learned,
is tour, and about ten wounded, though
there may be bodies under the Frisco mill
The Dead and the Wounded.
Two of the killed are Gus Carlson and
Harry Cummings, union miners. The other
two are non-union men, names unknown.
of Gem; Hugh Campbell, struck with rife
over head, not seriously injured; j. w.
Gankardoger, union miner, shot through
hip, will die; Gam Peters, from Tacoma,
shot in head, but not fatally; George Petit
bone, union miner, shot through hand.
Frisco and Gem were the only non-union
places in the east end of Couer d'Alene.
There is still considerable excitement every.
where, but no further trouble is expected.
About 60 men in the mine surrendered.
Governor Wiley has ordered Companies
A, i, n, G, of this city, to report at P. NJ.
and hold themselves In readiness to proceed
to the scene of trouble. 1t is not thought an
effective State force can be sent there
United States Marshal Pinkham has laid
the matter before Attorney General Miller
at Washington, the outbreak having been in
defiance of the Federal court injunction.
The Grievance of the Miners.
The cause of the strike was the demand
of the union miners Of the district for So 30
per day for every man working under
ground. The mine owners held that un-
skilled laborers should be paid only So.
When the miners refused to accept the
scale the mines were closed. The owners
declared excessive freight rates were the
cause OF the reduction.
The lockout was begun April by the
Mine Owners Association, and g. 200 miners
were thrown out of work Since then the
mine owners have been making struggle
to run their mills with non-union men and
guards. The tension has been great for
months, and the opinion has prevailed that
only a spark was needed to start the flames
of riot. The example at Homestead and the
decision of the United States Courts at
Boise, making perpetual injunction
against the Miners Union, brought matters
to head.
A later dispatch says: ''It is impossible at
this hour G P. M. to learn the exact con-
dition OF affairs in the Couer d Alene mines.
1t is known, however, that nine men are
dead; that the Frisco mill has been de-
stroyed by dynamite, and that the Gem
mine has surrendered to the strikers and the
employees taken to Wallace. A dispatch
from the superintendent of the Gem mine
reports one man killed at Gem and the
other eight at Frisco