San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-21

dren are rushing to the spot, looking
for relatives, and mingling with those
who are being driven from their houses
by flames.
The firemen hope to save the houses
and are helped by heavy rain which
began falling few minutes ago.
When the firemen went to turn on
the water they were ordered to desist,
which they did at one hydrant, but got
others are working.
2:55 a. m.-Another heavy explosion
has just occurred. Forty or fifty shots
have just been heard in the direction
of the Emmett and Marion mines, To-
Gated about a mile and a half from
the city. These mines were recently
fenced and work resumed by a small
force of men, which was being aug
mented every day. 1t would seem
from this that the strikers had finished
their work at the Coronado, where the
buildings are now a mass of smoking
embers and that the dynamiters have
gone to wipe out the Emmett and Ma
rion.
The first Herald-Democrat reporter
to return from the fire stated that fire
man O'Keefe and two unknown men
We're dead. He was unable to tell
how many had been injured and was
not sure that there were no more dead.
$40 a. NIT is now reported that
John Mahoney who works at the Big
Four, while on his way from the mine,
and near the Emmett mine, was shot
in the stomach and is believed to be
dead. Another man had all his cloth
3no hplN- httf nod
with is life,
The number of killed and wounded
will not be definitely known before
daylight.
3:45 a. m.-Desultory firing is still
heard in the direction of the Emmett
and Marion mines. The loss by the
burning of the Coronado shafthouse
and machinery may reach $4,000.
Four other houses in the vicinity
were burned, the loss being about S.
600.
One of the dead victims was blown
| to pieces by dynamite. His name is
unknown.
$3.50 a. NIT is just learned that a
| fourth man is injured so seriously that
| death will be the result.
4. m.-The firing has ceased but
there is supposed TO be further trouble
soon.
| Denver Colo, Sept. 21.-At 2:30 this
morning Sheriff Newman of Leadville,
and Judge Owens, of the District court
of Lake county, called upon Governor
| Mcintyre for troops to quell the riot
in Leadville. The governor at once
issued the call and before daylight the
entire military force of the state will
be en- route for the scene of the trouble
The troops from this city, two infan-
try companies and battery will reach
Leadville by noon.
Leadville, Colo, Sept. 21.-The min
res strike, of which last nights lawless-
ness is the outcome. began three
| months ago yesterday, when at II
| o'clock one night, the men in two or
| three of the leading mines walked out.
| The united scale Of wages in Leadville
was 80 per day for every body, but in
| 1898 when the price of silver dropped
below so cents, an agreement was made
| that $3.50 should be paid. The agree
ment, the miners afterward declared
| was unfair, as many of the mines paid
large dividends. 1t was to force the
original scale Of SO that the men struck.
| About 5000 men were involved. With
in the last two weeks several mines
have resumed work and this week the
output has been 1900 tons daily against
| 1000 before the strike. Trouble has
| been looked for, the past two weeks
| The state troops have been held in
| readiness for a call to arms, ever since
the strike began.