The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-13
AN UNNATURAL CALM.
The Situation at wardner One of Feverish
Anxietr.

nc olluatiOu at NhTuheF One VI reFerisn
Anxiety.
WARDNER, Ida. July Especial tele-
gram to TIE HERALD. AN day long the
situation here has been one of feverish
anxiety to the citizens OF Wsrdner The
feeling among tue strikers was that of the
strongest hate, desperation and triumph
The latter sentiment 81 least was justified,
for The union by daylight had possession Of
all the mines worth having in the Ceur
d. Aienes.
Bunker Hill and Sullivan captulated
early in the morning after ton and half
Of giant powder bad been packed under
the crushers OF the new mill
I've hundred aud seventy fve men ar
rived with Wincheslers. guarded the mill
and fixed dead line around the premises
Everything was then left in doubt as to
how the troops, which were reported to be
coming, would be received.
The days proceedings began shortly
after midnight. when 275 armed men came
from Wallace. They proceeded system
msucally TO remove the giant powder from
the magazine and store il under the crush
and iigs of The Bunker Hill and Sullivan
SAIL This is a mile and half west of
Wardner, directly on the Union Pacific
tracks. The mine is two miles distant,
just north of the camp.
Morning dawned and the fuse attached
to tho powder was ready TO FIRE.
President O'Brien ana three others.
armed. took Clements team and wagon,
which the manager had left at the mill the
night before and proceeded as committee
to wait upon the officials Of the mine. The
terms were .geS the scabs out OF camp by
Wednesday, noon or have the mill blown to
atoms.n
The 500 non union men were hastily dis-
charged and all day long they have been
seen struggling out OF camp with their
blankets on their back. Occasionally they
are stopped by crowd OF union men who
gather around the poor trembling wrstches.
"What cid you come here forl Didn't
you know there was troubled" is asked.
''No, as their reply. 81 understood the
trouble was all over.
THE same old storyn The crowd re-
plies and adds: New York get out of
here, you are free 10 go ana safe while you
are going"
The trembling miner if glad to escape
the crowds Of fierce angry union men who
can scarcely restrain themselves
This is the story Of today-tne exodus
of 500 laborers from the Bunker Hin and.
Sullivan mines.
The mill stands up on the bank an eleva-
ton of about dfty feet above the railroad
track in stretch of land covered BY
stumps As they come in the top OF the
bank for quarter Of mile is lined with a
string Of men with Winchesters ii hand.
These men wave their hands at the train,
put their hats on the muzzles Of their guns
and ware them, but there is no hilarity.
These men don't smile. There is an
UNNATURAL CALM
all over that does not belong to mining
camp.
Wardner resembles an eastern WALLACE
on the Sabbath. a visit to the dead line
about the mill is trip the average man
would not want to make frequently. The
men who have an interest in the affairs
feel themselves out of place in the crowd
where such intense feeling prevails. The
Spoiesmnn's representative was halted.
No bluff was made. no gun raised, no
unnecessary moves made. Intelii-
gent men are among them. men Of
brain and calm resolution, hot-hsads
do not rule. TO the Spokesman repre-
sentative one young fellow who seemed to
be in control Of his twenty or more com
panicns, said: 1--WE feel justified in our
course These mines are public lnstitu-
lions. They owe duty TO the public. We
are the public here; the duty owed us is
fair dealing. II capitalists hsd right to
discharge men like US who have opened up