The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-26
THE UNION TO BLAME.
Dynamite Explosion May Kill
Sailors Organization.
BIG REWARD FOR BOMB FiEnDs.
Police Hunsisg for the Villains asd
snip-owners ss1xisg the Chanes 20
Defeat Their Ensmiss.

devegorment today In the dynamite out
rage Of Saturday night wss the increased
interest manifested in the capture OF the
mardarers. Gov. Markham offered re-
card. Chief Crowley added 70 IL, and the
Ship Owners Association put np an indie
pendent 500. making total Of VI. 100. The
theory 10 that among such das-
tagdly towards as the men capable OF
such work there fnGss bs some traitor
whom gold viii bait sufficiently 20 back
ur the fear fha; deters him from turning
fnsormsr. Chief Crowley detailed hall
dozen detectives today 20 aid Detective
Exan and Sergeant Helms, OF the harbor
police, Ia the search for the men who
planned and carried out tie deeds Of death.
The chief IL driving his men with whip
and spur. and that be fs IN deadly earnest
IL shown BY the amount of work be Is do
Ing In person.
The directors OF the Ship Owners Assoc
citation held long session during the
afternoon, Mt which they added 500 10 the
Two rewards mentioned above and do
mated $50 toward the burial expenses Of
Ed@ard Murphy ana James McGutness,
the two sailors killed by the bomb. The
sentiment Of the ship owners, as mani
tested al the nesting. from which
not single director was abb
sent, was very strong In favor
OF crushing the sailors union
out of existence. President Simpsons
idea that there could be no safety for
life or property as long as the union had
a semblance OF life was concurred In by
every man present, and one result Of the
horror Of Saturday night Is that now the
y f4afn fNa steftff
for existence instead OF an offensive light
for patronage BY special resolution
u vas agreed that the members of the
Ship Owners Association are ready and
wiling 10 risk their property and spend
their money in exhausting every means to
lend the reign OF terror, IN the language
of the agreement, so long conducted by
that organization. In the argument over
the responsibility of the union for past out
RACES. il was decided that the association
does not charge tho union's officers with
directly melting or inducing members TO
such awful deeds of bloodshed and de-
struction. but does charge them
with stirring them mp by speech
and action in manner calcu-
lated 10 make individual members
take just such steps of war. There Is evi-
dence in the hands of the association. says
Secretary Williams, TO prove that men OF
bad character have been paid money from
the union treasury for the sole labor OF
heating non.union sailors and sympa-
thizers and destroying property. The situ-
alton 10 this, said Mr. Williams, ''there is a
great supply of sailors on this coast. and
there always will be such supply that q
strike or tie-up on the part Of tho union
must necessarily fail. Nine-tenths of the
deep water men who enter the ports on
this coast come out with the intention
Of leaving their ships and going into
the coasting trade. The union leaders
know just how anxious men are 70 quit
long yoyaging for coasting, and this leaves
them violence as O sole recourse Their
policy for years has been 60 beat and mall
treat all non-union men, thereby driving
them away or forcing them into the union
ranks.
The Sailors Union Of the Pacific coast Mt
meeting tonight offered q reward OF 81 600
for the arrest and conviction Of the parties
who exploded the bomb in front OF
Curtin's boarding house Saturday night.
committee was also appointed to make
arrangements for a mass meeting to he
held In Metropolitan hall soon, for the
purpose of placing the union in proper
light before the public by condemning the
dynamite outrage.
SAN Francisco, Sept. es - Saturday
nights dynamite outrage, in which four
men were killed and two more badly in
iGreH, one fatally. il the elimination of a
long series OF illegal acts which have been
attributed TO the Coast Seamen's Union.
For several years tho union has been
waging bitter war against non-union
sailors and their employers, and has
resoried 70 many acts of intimidation in
other coast ports as well as San Francisco.
Al this port. at various times, five sehoon.
ers. harkentines aud harks have been cut
adriit, ONE OF them nearly going ashore
This shir Tacoma and the brig Percy I'D
warts had their anchor chains nearly
sawed through. The ship colunnbis hac
her standing rigging cut and sails torn e
shreds. Dynamite was placed i'm the hold
az the steamer Rawnmore. ba, the clock.
work which Was to have exploded the ma
chine did not 90 and the vesse! was saved
\ lex months ago stick OF dynamite va.
found on the cylioder.head Of the tus
Ethel aud Marion, and Paeet SOUND
collier came into port with a stick q
4
ton 10 these numerous small boats hay.
been scatiled and smashed and ncn-unio,
sailors beaten. No one was ever punished
for these deeds. and the men who wer,
fighting the non-union sailors grew beta
John Curtin and Charles Bernard, tw,
of the victims Of Saturday nights expios
ion, were still alive at noon, though Their,
Is hardly q chance for Bernardo recovery
Roth his eyes were blown out and th
drums of his ears broken. Young Cartil
y the only enc OF the victims who is alb
20 tell anything OF what occurred preyiou,
Go the explosion, he says he saw an old
black vasiSe in the doorway and picked i
np. Then he remembered his father!
warning about pickins up strange pack
ages and suddenly dropped IL. ruaaln,
across the street exclaimlug. Its dvua
mite. The other men laughed AZ IA,
idea aud gathered eaTioas.y around IA,
valise. Suddenly theFe vas roar ans
cartin remembered nothing more until
he found himself bleeding and wounded IL
the street
Three men have been arrested fo- n,
crime. They are John Tyreu. jane
Moods and Terence Tracy. ryrsl an
Woods are the men Nho threatened Nrs
Curtin = few days 40. They we're form
cry members OF the Coast Seamen's Uptar
bat were dropped some time axe for san
payment of dues, Tracy Is deep 81.
sailor and has never belonged "a the union
The police are securing the town 80 oh
tain e!ew IS 10 the ideutity Of the aona
who caused Saturday nights explosion
thies e Police Croxley says be beieve