The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-09
In Preventing I Bloody Battle
ct Cripple Greek.
the DEPUTIES WERE ADVANCING
And the Miners at Bull Hill Were
Preparing 10 Repalse Them.
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CRIPPLE CRKKK. Col. June s.-The situ-
ataon became warIike At 10 o'clock. when
force Of deputies started for Bull hill
with eating guns. GEN Brooks ordered
the deputies 60 halt and return. but the
order Vas ignored. An order Vas at once
given the militiamen to tall in between
the opposing forces and prevent . meeting
u possible. Ten minutes after the depu-
ties started there Was terrific sounding
Of the alarm at Altman, calling the
miners together for battle. Gen Brooks
intercepted the depu.ies and ordered
Sheriff Powers TO send them back 70 camn.
After some parieying Sheriff Bowers COM
piled. and the mihtia held the KEY 10 the
situation A majority of the miners for
whom warrants have been issued have nj.
ready scattered over the hills. johnson.
the leader. Is believed to bs q fugitive.
The miners who remain viii 20 70 work.
The Second regiment Of the Colorado
National Guard arrived today, and Gen.
Brooks force now numbers about 100 men.
They viii be able easily To control the
strikers. and there will be NO further
trouble If the deputies do not again attack
the miners
The eexcelient conduct OF the state troops.
acting upon the poiitic orders Of Gen.
Brooks. has greatly tempered the intense
animossty that the deputies and strikers
have felt toward each other, and the
chances for . conflict are more remote
than ut any time since the two forces faced
each other The militia, from its position
between the two armies, has moved 10 A.
TO prevent either side making m attack.
~ nd fka~x ~ .sz.x4s Il -.--
apoiitic manner that they have won the re-
gard OF both sideA Several times the
Deputies began to advance. but were cut of
by the troops. Al one time Gen. Brooks
rode down the 'front.' Of the deputies. and
his bearing and words we're Of such ma
ture that he shook hands with the sheriff-s
forces, and when hs departed the men
gave him three chserA Both deputies and
miiitiamen prefer. Gen. Brooks to Adult
ant-General Tarsuey.
c. w. Wright and G A. McCisliand. Of
Colorado Springs. we're accidentally shot
today by . deputy Who handled gun
carelessiy. Wright vas wounded in the
groin and 10 not expected to recover. Nc
Clelland was wounded in the knee.
The first body OF militia arrived here as
$50 p M, and wsrs enthusiastically 70.
csived BY the cftiaAns. Gen: Brooks il
nov st Altman. on Bull hill, In con-
ference with the strikers. He will accent
their surrender. but will not dl,srm
them. The militia has besn ordered 10
Bull hili. which they entirely surround. 90
as to keep back the deputies. Many of the
Deputies have become disguised and have
deserted. A few shots were exchanged to-
day between the strikers and the deputies.
but no one was injured.
DKNvER, June 6-Immediatsly on re-
ceivina Information from Cripple Creek
this afternoon Of the condition OF affair,
on Bull hill Gov. Waite tclegraphed an
order to Adjt-Gsn. Tarsney, instrucsins
him to accept the surrender Of the miners: !:
not to disarmi them. but protect them with
all the power At his command; to keep the
deputy sheriffs out of their headquarters !;
to make no arrests and use NO force. but
let everything be done voluntarily. .If
the armed deputies resist" the governor
added. II will call out the Organized
militia and suppress the insurrection.
CoLoRADo SrRiEGs, June 6-Marshai
Dana, commander OF the Home Guard. re-
ceived the following this afternoon: Have
members Of the Home Guard mounted at
oncs and posted in Cheyenne canyon, and
order them to arrest eli armed men pass.
ing through. The miners are scattered.
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