Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-12
TERRIBLE RIOT IN IDAHO,
Labor Troubles Culminate in
BlOOdshed.
The Counterpart of the Home
stead Affair.
Sanguinary Battles Between Union
and Non-uniOn Miners.
A Coward1y Attack on Union Men Heroic-
ally Avenged-Ffve Men killed.
Troops Ordered Co the Scene
of the Conflict.
BY the Assoclated Press.l

w WALLACE, luauO, July IL Auo
strained situation in the Ceur d'Alene
labor troubles eliminated this morning
between and 6 o'clock. Among the
events of the day previous were chal
lodges from the non-union men at the
Frisco and Gem mines to the union
miners at the town of Gem. All seemed
to indicate speedy rupture. Both the
Gem and Frisco miners were guarded
by non-union men behind barricades,
armed with Winchesters, and as the
cafion is narrow where the mines are
located, the men behind the barricades
could sweep the two railroad tracks and
the county road with bullets. The Gem
mine barricade is within 800 feet of the
center of the town OF Gem.
A FURIOUS BATTLE.
This morning at o'clock a union
miner from Gem started for Burke.
When opposite the Frisco mine ,be was
fred upon. He ran back to Gem, sew
eral hundred yards, wbereAtb shot wss
heard, and soon the union miners IN the
town gathered with arms. They
mine. When within rifle range volley
from the Frisco mine greeted them, and
the lead whistled about them. They
scattered, and a regular battle eneued.
One union miner and one nOn-union
man were killed and perhaps six wound
ed during the engagement.
EXPLOSION OF GIANT POWDER.
The union miners in the meantime
got around the hills up the cafion above
the mine, loaded Union Pacific car
with 750 pounds of giant powder and
sent the car dawn the track toward the
Frisco mine. Directly in front OF the
mill an explosion occurred, ehattering
the mill to splinters and making it
complete wreck. The non-union men
then showed white flag and surren-
dered. They were marched down 10
the miners union hall and guarded.
Noindignities were offered the pfiso4.
ers.
CowARDLY' ATTACK ON GEM.
While the fight was going on at
Frisco the Gem mine guards sudden
ly began firing volley after voley into
the town of Gem, riddling the buildings
with bullets. John Ward, citizen,
was shot through the arm, and Gus
Carlson, union miner, was shot and
fell. All attempts TO recover Carlson's
body were met with volleys from the
Gem breastworks, and when the body
was recovered an hour afterward, he
was dead, having been shot through the
breast. No shots were returned from
Gem until the armed miners from Fris-
co, half mile above Gem, returned.
NoN-UNIoN FORCES SURRENDER.
About s O'Clock truce occurred and
the sheriff, district attorney and deputy
marshals appeared on the scene. The
train was stopped by the armed guards
at the Gem mine. The sheriff took the
mail on his, shoulder 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 negoti-
ations were Immediately set on foot and
truce declared. At IL O'Clock the
Gem forces surrendered to the union
men.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The number killed. SO far as can be
learned, is four. About ten were
wounded. There may be bodies under
the Frisco mill. Two of the killed are
Gus Carlson and Harry Cummings,
union miners. The other two are nom
union men, names unknown. The
wounded are John Ward, citizen of
Gem, shot through the arm; Hugh
Campbell, struck with a rifle over the
head, not dangerously; ]. W. Gsnkra,
goger, a union miner, shot through the
hips, will die; Sam Peters, from Ia
coma, shot in the head, but not fatally;
George Pettibone, a union man, shot
through the hand.
The Frisco and Gem are the only nom
union mines in the eaet end of Coeur
d'Alene. There is etill considerable ex-
citement everywhere, but no further
trouble is expected.
PRISONERS TAKEN TO WALLACE.
At o'clock this afternoon about
three hundred miners from the Gem,
fifty of whom were armed with rifles,
marched to Wallace. They brought
with them their prisoners, consisting of
100 non-union men, and five dead bodies,
another dead man, James Hennesy, be-
ing found in the mill at Gem, shot
through the breast. Upon their arrival
here, the non-union men were turned
loose, and the union men began to
search for A. M. Ester, manager of the
Frisco mine, against whom the union
men have 8 special grudge.
The terms on which the Gem miners
and guards surrendered were that twen-
ty-seven Winchesters, number of re-
volvers and 1000 rounds of ammunition
be placed in the hands of disinterested
parties-two citizens and two conserva-
tive union men-and that the non-union
men should be shipped out of the coun-
try tomorrow.
FURTHER TROUBLE BREWING.
An hour after the agreement about
the arms was entered into, the union
men got possession OF all the rifles and
ammunition, and this evening large
bodies of armed miners went to Ward
ner, twelve miles distant, in wagons
and by rail. The mines employing nom
union men there are the Sierra Nevada,
Bunker Hill and Sullivan.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan have