Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-09-25
More Conservative Miners De
nounce the Violence
some of the Wien Killed were Lead
ing spirits in the AgiratiOn-Others
Have Escaped TO the Hins-Wide-
spread Destruction Contemplated.


the mountains, one shot full of bullets
while doing his duty two horribly man
gled by the dynamite they were using
to destroy life and property ; the others
full of leaden pellets received while they
were fighting in the shadows to destroy
the lives of men who were earning
bread by, honest toll. An addition to
the death list was made at 9 o'clock this
evening by the discovery of the body of
Michael Daugherty on the ground near
; the Emmett mine, where he fell during
the attack upon the Emmett mine by the
rioters, flushed with their victory at the
Coronado.
There were many people in upper
windows and on house-roofs, provided
with night glasses. who in the brilliant
moonlight saw the savage attack on the
Emmett and the more than gallant re-
pulse of the rioters. These watchers
say that the first 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 of long abandoned shafts in
that vicinity to tell. 1t now seems that
the rioters dragged away their dead
and wounded, Indian fashion, for
great many people have been about the
Emmett today, and this is the only dis
covery of that kind.
The story of the defense of the En-
met is thrilling one. Easily accessi-
BILE and surrounded only by light
board fence, it seems wonderful that it
was not quickly overwhelmed, its men
slain and the buildings demolished. But
the fifteen buckshot found in Daugher-
ty's body and the story of the fearful ef-
feet of the first volley from the mine
tells how quickly the rioters lost stom-
ach for the bloody business.
Their work at the Maid of Erin was
happily done for naught Had this mine
been blown up, the great pumps which
drain it and many other mines would
have been destroyed and the ensuing
damage frightful to contemplate.
This mornings work, particularly |
with the fire department., has destroyed
the last vestige of sympathy for the
strikers, and this fact was evidenced at |
a largely attended meeting of represent
alive citizens this afternoon. Their pro-
ceedings were secret, but entirely har-
monious, and the measures decided upon
if stringent, will be beneficial in the
highest degree.
Two companies of militia from Pu-
eblo and Cripple Greek, all under com
mand of Colonel Mccoy, arrived at go
this afternoon and are now on duty.
General Brooks, with several other
companies, are expected to arrive dur
ing the night.
The damage at the Coronado by the
burning of oil tanks, boiler house and
machinery is now stated to be $4,000,
on which there is $I2,5oo insurance
The houses burned belonged to J. Call,
lanes Gregory, Burns and one empty
house, owner unknown They were
valued at $1,000 with no insurance.
Despite the presence of troops and the
unusual quietness of the streets, there
is a very uneasy feeling prevalent v
among the more timorous class, who S
assert that there are 500 Winchester r
rifles in the hands of the strikers, whose o
repeated boasts as to the way they would D
do ND the military, are recalled with e
fresh alarm.
The majority of our citizens, how
,ver, think that there will be no further a
rouble unless the managers begin inn q
porting miners. q
The first attack was made upon the u
Coronado, which is in the city, being
,nly half dozen blocks from the post -
,fice and surrounded by residences full =
f people. The Coronado shafthouse is
uilt on a large embankment of earth q
nclosed by logs, and the machinery is
ONE fifty feet above the street level
| heavy plank barricade was erected
ronnd the machinery and shafthouse III
then the mine resumed operations last m
lonth, and the house was well stocked &C
18th provisions. Winchesters and am id
lunltion. Beyond assaults on workmen
cen coming from the mine at divers an
mes, no overt acts of violence had been q
tempted against this mine until this CT
forming at o'clock, when FEW bullets wi
ruck the barricade and the men on sill
uard prepared for action. at