The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-05-27

CRIPPLE kCREEK, Col, May CO.
Eleven men killed, with strong
probability that the number of dead
will he increased when all is known.
is the record of the first day of trouble
here, although real fighting has not
yct begun, as the deputies are await
iny reinforce ments before beginning
active operations.
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning
eleven men started to work in the
Strong mine on Battle mountain.
shortly afterward party of strikers
blew up The shaft-house causing a
loss of S2j, 900 and then dropped 100
poands of giant powder down the
shaft which was also exploded. kill
ing all the inmates. Not more than
300 yards from the Strong shaft house,
sixteen men, who had been engaged
to go to work in the independence
mine, were surrounded in their bunk
house, and after long parley agreed
to surrender. Each one was armed
with Il rifle and brace of reviewers,
the arms now being in the possession
of the strikers
IL is rumored that the strikers at
tackled the Anna Lee Inine> overpow-
cring the guards, after which they
blew up the shaft house, but the
rumor has not been verified. When
the deputies are finally massed, and
th1 two forces come together, most
desperate battle will doubtless be
fought.
The situation is Cne of most painful
anxiety. Not few believe the town
will be smoldering mass by another
sunset if the strikers be not re-
strained.
At Victor, six miles away, where
fully 1000 people reside, a reign of
terror exists. Within half II mile of
the corporation limits of the town. all
day long fully 300 union men, armed
with rifles, have paradeI up and down
the side of the hill. Occasionally IA
detour into the village would be
made. and people VIII IN the miners
thought to be object enable were or
dered to leave the place.
The guards from Denver, upon ar
rival at Victor. went into camp on a
neighborin hill The strikers threw
out "A picket line entirely surrounding
them. but at u distance that guaran-
tees then safety from the deputie $
rifles.
One of the largest mine owners in
Colorado Springs is authority for the
statements that the mine owners
have planted rihed cannon on a hill
commanding the breastworl<s, and
that it will be used to dislodgc the
strikers from that position.
The special train bearing $50 armed
deputies reached Victor about 10
o'clock yesterday morning. The depu-
ties were immediately surrounded by
400 miners. A pitched battle ensued,
in which the deputies took refuge be-
hind the rocks. The deputies finally
proceeded to the Independence mine
and secured possession, where they
are besieged by a part of the miners.
At the summit of Bull Hill, but 800
feet away from the Victor property,
the miners have "a barricade of logs
and broken rock, which is supplied
with loopholes and ladders Consid
eruble ammunition is stored there,
and also u quantity of provisions, but
there is no water. Whole kegs of
blasting powder have been stored in
the barrcale, and there is no telling
to what desperate extreme the men
may go.
All sorts of rumors concerning the
doings at the Strong mine are afloat.
One of them is to tho effect the work
men were not killed, having been
warned off by masked strikers. The
deputies from Denver have with
drawn to less exposed position,
where they will await reinforcements
The strikers, from their stronghold
on Bull Hill, can view the country foI
miles, ard all passes are guarded by
them. Every stranger is intercepted
and not allowed to proceed TOWARD
the town unless a satisfactory eX
planation of his business is given
No one is permitted near enough tC
the seat of war to be in danger, anC
the streets OF Cripple Creek and Vic
tor, as well as the passes, are patroleC
by miners carrying Winchesters anC
revolvers.
The capture and disarming of depu
ties, numbering eighteen, was accom-
plished by women, and ever since TIVE
Of the women have been holding higl
court in u alonn where the striker
heap cCIs = ltulations upon them.
Two wagons loaded with powde
and can, dg = for one of the mine
were capt by the strikers ant
their conter ,"1iiscated.
Sam McDUnaid, superintendent o
the Strong, Anna Lee and Gold KIM
mines. an1 Charley Robinson, fore
man of the Strong, are missing, whic
gives credence to the story of tn
Slaughter. If the men were IN eel
tain portions of the mine the concus
sion NAV not have killed them. Sar
Strong, owner of the mine IS give
as authority for the statement tina
eleven men were killed.
Judge McCIeverty Declines