The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-22
DYNAMITE is USED
STRIKING MINERS AT LEADVILLE
ON TIE BURN AND KILL.


Coronado Shaft House Dynamited at Mid
niebt-Guards Forced to Flee the
Flames, Which Leave Nothing but
Ashes-Five Lives Lost, Two by Dyna-
mtte-Ffre Department Held Up and
One Fireman Killed-Attack on the
Emmett Mine Repulsed-Blame Thrown
on Ceur d'AIene Men.
I,edyiIle. Colo, Sept. 21.-Five dead
bodies lying at the morgue and haH
dozen wounded, with damage to prop
srty to the amount of $4,000. are the
visible effects of last nights laWless-
ness. 1t ds believed that when all Is
known the Cfst of dead and injured Will
considerably exceed these figures. Ev-
erything Is quiet, the camp being prac-
tscally under military rule.
The sixth name was added TO the
death list at 6 O'Clock this evening by
the discovery Of the body Of Michael
Daugherty on the ground near the En-
NETT mine. where he fell in the attack Of
ed with their victory at the Coronado.
There were many people in the upper
windows and on house roofs, provided
with night glasses, who IN the brilliate
moonlight saw the attack on the En-
meat and the repulse of the rioters. The
watchers say that the finst volley from
the mine was delivered at close range
and that the attacking party fell like
grain before the sickle. How many met
the fate of Daugherty, it may remain
for time and a search in the long apan-
1oned shafts in the vicinity to tell. 1t
now seems that the rioters dragged
away their dead and wounded
DEFENSE OF THE EMMETT.
The story of the defense of the EN-
NETT is a thrilling one. Easily acces-
siblet and surrounded only by a light
board fence it seems wonderful that
it was not quickly overwhelmed, and
the buildings demolished. But the fiji
teen buckshot found in Daugherty's
body and the history Of the awful effect
Of the first Volley from the building
show how quickly the rioters lost sto-
mach for the blody business. Had this
mine been Blown uD, the great pumps
which drain it and many other mines,
would have been destroyed and the ensu-
ing the damaged rightful to contemplate,
GREAT FALL IN SYMPATHY.
This mornings riot, and particularly
the attack upon the fire department, has
destroyed much of the public sympathy
for the strikers and this fact was evil
denced at a largely attended meeting
Of representative citizens this after
noon. Their proceedings were secret
but 1t is understood that stringent mea-
sures Were decided upon Two compa-
MES of state militia from Pueblo and
Cripple Creek, all under command Of
Colonel Mccoy, arrived at 4:50 this af
ternon and are now on duty. General
Brooks, with several other companies
VIII arrive during the night.
The damage at the Coronado by the
burning of the oil tanks, boiler house
and machinery, lis now estimated at s25.-
900, on which is s12,500 insurance. The
houses burned were valued at $1,000 with
no insurance.
Despite the presence of troops and
the unusual quietness of the streets,
there lis a very uneasy feeling prevalent,
1t being asserted that there are 500 Win
chester rifles in the hands Of the sctrik-
ers. whose repeated threats against the
military are recalled with alarm. 1t is
the general belief, however, that there
will be mo further trouble, unless the
managers begin imoprting miners.
Leadville, Colo, Sept. 21.-The bloody
phase of the great miners strike has
commnced. Three men are now known
TO be dead, and two others dying, the
Coronado shaft house and machinery
are in ashes and four innocent house
holders are homeless as the result of an
a nv 1l-y,.a
the Coronado and Emmett mines, in the
dark hours of the early morning.
The first attack was made upon the !
Coronado. which is in the city, being
only half dozen blocks from the post
office. The Coronado shaft house was
built on the large embankment, en-
closed by logs and the machinery is so /
heet above the street level. a heavy /
plank harricade was erected around /
the machinery and shaft house when the /
miners resumed operation last month,
and the house was we'll stocked with |
provisions and Winchesters and am
munitiOn. Beyond assaults on work. |
ingmen seen coming from the mines at
divers times, no overt attacks of yio-
lence had been attempted against the
mine till l o'clock this morning. when a
few bullets struck the barricade. and
the men inside prepared for action.
DYNAMTTERS.
1t was night attack upon the prop
erty There was no confusion and no
crowd upon the street. The first init
nation OF the trouble was a number of
shots The shots came scattered at
first then faster and faster.
All the houses of the Coronado were
deserted. with the exception OF three or
four persons attracted by the shooting
Suddenly, after twenty-five minutes
OF firing, sheet of fame burst out. fol-