Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-21
The Great Miners Strike at the Fa-
nous Carbonate Camp Cul-
minated This Morning.
At LEAST FIVE LIVES WERE SACRIFICED
Much Property Destroyed by Flames
The Rioters Have Been Dislodged
and Have Fled to the Mountains
Martial Law Declared.

four innocent householders are homeless
as result of an attack by parties yet I'M
known upon the Coronado and Emmett
mines in the dark hours of the early
morning.
The first attack was made upon the
Coronado, situated half dozen blocks
from the postoffice and surrounded by
residences. The Coronado shaft house
was built on large embankment, en-.
closed by logs, the machinery being fifty
feet above the street level. A heavy plank
barricade was erected around the ma.
ohinery and shaft house when the mine re-
sumed operations last month and the
house was we'll stocked with provisions,
Winchesters and ammunition.
Beyond assaults on the working men,
coming from the mines at divers times,
no overt acts of violence have been at
tempted against this mine until O'Clock
this morning, when few bullets struck
the barricade and the men on guard pre-
pared for action.
The. first intimation the people down
town received of the trouble was the
shooting, scattering at first, and then
faster and faster. All the streets west of
the Coronado were deserted, with the ex-
ception of three or four persons attract
ed by the shooting.
SHEET OF FLAMES BURST FORTH.
Suddenly, after twenty-five minutes of
firing, sheet of flames burst out, fol-
lowed by Terrible detonation. The at
tacking party was using dynamite. The
firing then seemed to slack up slightly.
Occasionally bullet went through the
air and then sheet of flame from Eighth
or Ninth streets.
was being made to fire the property.
East of the engine house were several
tanks of fuel oil and the attack was con-
centrated on this point. There was
sheet of flame and sputtering as though
blazing powder. The engine room was
In flames. few moments later the clang
of the fire engines was heard coming up
the street.
Armed men held the firemen at bay,
while the flames grew fiercer and ferccr.
The men in the shaft house we're finally
driven from their fort, but fought to the
last As they ran over the high trestle-
work dozen shots were fred, but the
men reached the dump in safety and es-
capped.
By this time large crowd had gather
ed, and hundreds we're ready to assist,
but were held at bay by the rioters and
fire-bugs, who were concealed near the
building.
Presently as the sheets of flame rolled
over the buildings, it was apparent that,
unless there was timely action, the build
ings in the vicinity were doomed. The
firemen rallied, for by this time hundreds
of citizens, armed with rifles, appeared
and guarded the fre department and
volunteers.
ATTENTION TO SAVING HOUSES.
All attention was devoted to saving
houses in the vicinity, but in spite of
every effort four dwellings on East
Eighth street we're destroyed.
Jerry O'Keefe, foreman of Hose COM
pany No.2, was turning on the water,
when bullet plowed his side. He is
dying in the hospital.
An unknown man was taken to 612
East Eighth street dead, killed by dyna-
mite.
Another, unknown man, mortally wound
cd by dynamite.
John Mahoney, miner at the Big -Four,
who was near the Emmett, was shot in
the stomach. He died in the arms of his
companions.
One of the men, who brought the re-
port, had his clothes nearly all torn off,
but was not seriously hurt.
At $3.50 a. M, an attack was made on
the Emmett mine. There were over 100
shots fred, but a telephone message
from the mine states that the attack was
repnlsed and that no lives are known to
have been lost and no damage to the
property resulted.
The strike began on the 10th of June.
II has paralyzed business, caused hunger
and suffering in hundreds of families and
has out down the mineral output of the
camp more than half.
THOSE WHO CAUSED THE BLOODY BATTLE.
This mornings bloody battle is believed
to be the last desperate one of the radical
element of the strikers to force the stop
page Of all the mines not paying the in
creased scale of wages demanded by the
union.
Many strikers have asserted all along
that they would "clean out the state," and
even government troops if brought here,
rather than see outside labor come to the
camp.
The mine manager, who at first refused
to recognize the union, finally offered to
compromise, but this was rejected and all
efforts by citizens and others to terminals
the strike since then have failed.
sTREETT THRoNaED WITH HxcITED PEOPLE.
Leadville.-The streets are thronged
to-day with excited people. No new out
RACES are reported. At least I've lives
were sacrificed in this mornings work.
The dead are:
Bert Meir.
James Benson.
Both Coronado miners killed in the
explosion. ,.5
The dying are:
VIM. (not jerry O'Keefe, foreman
hose company, shot through the stomach.
]. Higgins, Coronado miner, shot
eight times in the arms and stomach.
John Mahoney, miner, shot through the
stomach at the Emmett mine, s9ys he was
there only as Aepectator.
The injured are, Frank Teller and Mar
tin SCOTT, both Coronado miners, injuries
not fatal.
Three of the attacking party at the
Emmett mine were hit with bullets, but
were carried away BY their comrades.
Hundreds of miners say to-day that
they are ready to 60 to work. They Bit
tsrly denounce the rioters, Who are said
to be about dfty men from the Occur
d'Alene country. They havs fed TO the
hills. The local military companies are
Ia pursuit.
citizens are patrOlling ths strssts. The
strike 10 undoubtedly broken. No for