Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-08
THE CRIPPLE CREEK SITUATION.
A short stirmfsh in which No One Was
KIuled--Hsartlsss Treatment by DsPu-

A short skirmfsh in which No One was
KIued--HsartIsss Treatment by DePu-
ties
CRIPPLE CREEK, COL, June at
$50 o'clock to-day a skirmish TOOK
place between the miners and deputies
Over 800 shots were fred, but so far as
known no one was killed. During the
night the miners threw mp entrench-
ments along the line OF bills between Bull
Mountain and the deputies camp. SIX
teen miners advanced on the picket line
of the deputies, and secured horses BE-
longing to the cavalrymen. The pick
cts opened FIRE, but the miners drove
them back. Immediately the full force
of deputies took up their line or oattle
and gave chase TO the miners, VINO re-
treated with the stolen horses.
Gen. Adams says he will train his
long guns on Bull Hill and begin a bonn
bardmeRt of the miners fortress II the
militia does not arrive 5000. The sher-
III declares that when the troops reach
Bull Hill the deputies will arrest those
for whom he has warrants.
DENVER, June News from Cripple
Creek is sent by telephone, as the de-
puties have cut all telegraph wires and
will not allow repairs to be made. The
situation is extremely critical In view
OF Gov. Waits's order to Gen. Brooks TO
allow the deputies TO pass through his
lines and NAV result in q conflict between
the militia and the miners on one side
and the deputies on the other. The Gov
ernor has instructed Gen. Brooks not TO
allow armed deputies to pass through
his lines, but TO permit Sheriff Bowers
to past through alone, and serve papers
onsthe miners. The Governor will not
permit wholesale arrests. 1t is raining
here and bitterly cold.
DENVER, Col, June Sat 10:3O a.
m. Gov. Waite received the following
from Rhodes & Gross, real estate deal
ers at Victor:
Deputies moving on Bull Hill.
Skirmishing is in progress. No one
killed yet that we know OF.
DENVER, Col, June John Shor-
ton, editor OF the Cripple Creek Herald,
published in the interest Of the miners,
who was arrested Oy the deputies sew
erai days ago, arrived here to-day ON
parole. He tells a sensational story or
the treatment of himself and others
At the hands Of the deputy
sheriffs. Fifteen OF twenty OF us, " said
Mr.. Shorten, "were put in q school
house for the night without any blank
cts or beds. Some of the men were
beaten and we were not allowed TO
speak to each other or have any writing
material 10 the morning, under Sher-
if Mullins order to watch the prisoners
and il any refuse to do what they
are told TO shoot their damned heads
of. we were marched In single tle
and were given some rolls or crackers
and whatever coffee was left In an old
bucket, and then at the point OF mus
keus were forced to pack water and
wood for the big camp. The hardest
case OF all was that OF man named
Sullivan getting a telegram telling
him that bis wife was dying and asking
him to 60 to Leadville Immediately. l
saw him get the telegram and when we
were captured Sullivan showed it to the
deputies but they refused to liberate
him and would not even allow him to
communicate with his dying wife or his
family"
REV. MYRON REEDS PRoPHEsY.
DENVER, Col, June Tn an ad-
dress before the Union League, Rev.
Myron Reed, who resigned the pastor
ate of the Congregational Church
on account OF the adverse feel