Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-05-25
CRIPPLE CREEK ALARMED.
Striking Miners Resort to the Use OF
Dynamite-A Flight with Dep
uty SherifYs-SeveralM Men
Killed.

Cripple Creek, Colo, May 25.-A wagon
load of powder was backed up against
the shaft house of the Strong mine this
morning, a fuse put to the destructive
STUFF and all of it exploded. Several men
were in the shaft house short time be-
fore and whether they got out alive or
not ia not known. All the telephone
wires have been cut leading into the hills
and it is feared that the telegraph wires
will 20 next. The Denver deputies are
reported to have reached Victor and a
rumor has it that desperate battle il
now in progress there.
THE TOWN EXCITED.
At 9:45 o'clock Mayor Whiting re-
ceived telephone message that miners
from Bull hill had surrounded the Inde-
pendence and Portland mines and that a
battle was in progress. The town is in
terrible state of excitement and it ia be-
lieyed a serious conflict is inevitable.
At $3.50 O'Clock the train arrived from
Denver bringing the armed force of the
mine owners, but Sheriff Bowers had not
arrived at Victor.
CAPTURED THE DEPUTIES.
At p. m. eighteen or twenty deputies
who were scattered about in the cabins
below the Independence mine, at Wilson
creek, surrendered to the striking miners.
They were told that if they would quit
and hand over their rifles and side arms
they would not receive personal injury,
and after conference the deputies gave
in. ::They are being marched to the
city under a strong guard and are now at
the town of Atmore. Whether or not
they will reach this oity in safety is an
open question. The guards that came
up from Denver are now somewhere in
the hills east of the Independence mine
while hundreds of miners, armed with
Winchesters, are patrolling the roads
about Victor to the west, south and north
The contending parties are not within
rifle range of each other.
PITCHED BATTLE.
A special train bearing $50 armed dep
uties reached Victor about 10 O'Clock
and the deputies were Immediately sur
rounded by 400 miners. A pitched battle
ensued in which the deputies took refuge
behind the rocks. The deputies finally
proceeded to the Independence mine and
secured possession, and where they are
being besieged by party of miners.
It is not known whether or not any
were killed in the fight. The Anna Lee
shaft house, as we'll as that OF the Strong
has been blown up. A mob is now on its
way to the Victor and Pharmacist minef
with the intention of blowing up the shaft
houses, after which they will proceed tt
the Summit mine, at tho summit of Bull
hill and but 500 feet away from the Victor
property. The miners havea barricade o.
logs and broken rock which is supplied
with loop holes and ladders. Considerable
ammunition is stored there and also {
quantity of provisions, but there is nj
water. Whole kegs of blasting powder
have been stored in the barricade, ant
there is no telling to what desperate OK
tremes the men may 60.
Thomas b. Jones, one of the two mel
beaten by the miners yesterday died o
his injuries to-day. Under Sheriff Bris
bane is coming from Colorado Spring
and will deputize all the available men a.
force to fight the strikers.
BoAsT1Na DEPUTIES.
Later news from the scene of tn
struggle IL to the effect that no shot
were fred. The deputies are campe,
south of Victor and declare that they viii