The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
MINES ATTACKED BY A MOB.
,,,,F MEN KILLED AND TWO Or
THREE LIKELY TO DIE.

NIL, shaft House and Out Buildings
md Four Dwellings Burned as the
pesult of the Use of Dynamite by
.be Mob-TrOOps Called Out to Sup
re~s the Trouble-The Outskirts
80 LeadVdIle the Scene of the
Trouble.
Yeadyille Col, Sept. N.-Leadville was
hattIe ground to-day, and the Coro-
-odo mine was the scene Of desperate
orgagement between strikers and the
.,e,+v men who were working in and
u,.,g at the mine. The bloody hand of
,,,,,essness and anarchy, by the use of
a,.ranoite bombs, burned the Coronado
sboft house and made forced attack
on the miners, but the attacking party
rere driven from their ground, with
three Of their members mortally wounded
and two seriously injured.
rha most atrocious crime committed
during this lawless attack was the shoot
,ng and mortally wounding Of Jerry
o.Keefe. who was doing his duty as a
fireman to extinguish the blaze that, de-
sr,te the efforts of the fire department,
oorsumed four dwelling houses, as well
os the Coronado shaft house and out
buildings.
The bloody work of the strikers was
r,+ confined alone to the Coronado mine,
q oIaUless mob gathering around the Elm
met. little after the attack was made on
the coronado, but the men at the Emmett
were ready for the attack, and When the
crowd appeared they fired such Volley
of bullets into them that they Iouhu II
unsafe to 20 further in their nefarlous
4 work Not one Of their members was
EWed hut Jerry Mehoney, a miner, living
# neor the Resurrection, who happened to
n be coming along the road at the time,
walked between the strikers and the men
on the inside. and with the first volley
was shot, probably fatally.
At the FL Paso also the men We're at
a tackled by strikers, but they left the shaft
house and sought cover under bushes close
Nv Here they were awaiting the attack
of Inc strikers, but the latter did not come
near the property, contenting themselves
with firing about a hundred shots into
the shaft house.
Armed men arso prowled around the
Ram mine, at about the same time, and
fired several shots into the shaft house.
A great quantity of giant powder was
burned outside the fence of the Emmett
mine, but no harm was done by 1t. This
powder was brought to blow up the En-
a NETT shaft house, but the resistance made
n to the attack by the men on the inside
foiled the plans Of the strikers, and fear
ing being caught with the powder in
VI their possession, they burned it.
The men who were killed at the Coro-
nado mine are: Berry Wier and James
n Benson union strikers; Jerry O'Keefe, a
fireman, mortally wounded Will Higgins.
No one is able to identify either Benson
L. l., IT.
ters in their pockets.
William Higgins, who was mortally
wounded in the affair, has four bullet
wounds in his right arm and one, which
is pronounced dangerous, just below the
abdomen. This is lodged in his stomach,
and DR.. Janotte says it will not prevent
his recovery. Higgins is not more than
% years of age.
John Mahoney is not dead, but the doc
tors say he cannot live, and will probably
die tonight Mahoney is not a striker,
although he Is a union miner He was
working a lease with two others, and they
were with him when he was shot, but
none of the men knew they had walked
into a death trap until Mahoney was
pierced by a ball and fell from his horse.
O'Keefe and Mahoney are single men,
and it is believed that Benson and Wier
are also single
Under orders of the governor, several
companies of state militia are on the way
TO Leadville from Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo to strengthen the To-
cal military force Of three companies.
The miners were organized recently by
the Western Federation of Miners, and
almost every mine worker was in the
union when their demands were made.
The miners ask 50 a day for all classes of
Workmen, including surface and under
ground men. The employers declared at
the beginning of the trouble that they
We're willing to continue paying the wages
which had prevailed in Leadville to that
ume. Under that scale surface workers
were paid only $3.50, and practically the
only change the union proposes is the
advance of the wages of this class of
men to 49,
The mine owners have refused to listen
70 any proposition from the employees.
Ihey insist that the governor, the courts
ana the newspapers are with the miners,
ana II would be impossible to manage
'"elI own property IL they made any con-
,eSSlons The courts say they are power
less unless the sheriff brings offenders
"HAn their jurisdiction. The mine own
e's explain that the sheriff holds the key
strikers,
tonight the city of Leadville is quiet;
le saloons are all closed and the people
VINO are on the streets are standing idly
".oul taking discreetly low.
me state militia, which has for the
lour'h time in two years been called out to
Up rloting In the mining camps, is ar
5MHB tonight and will do merely patrol
us9, Tor there is absolutely no evidence
inoting in the entire camp. The two
nHl'la companies of Leadville, a large
oompany from Cripple Creek and two
onlpanles from Pueblo. were on hand
e ,.e before darkness came on, one COM
tany patrolling the powder magazine,
-.'e at the Emmett mines and the 9TH
's on duty at the armory, who will doubt
a. AZ assist the deputy sheriffs and police
r, r,ar 'ment in patrolling the camp. The
ctLSSl regiment from Denver, with the
iuaHe Light Artillery and a troop of cav.
WttS, VIII reach Beadville before midnight
""e no one can predict with certainty
WIZ outcome OF the night mine owners
,roo ,alk say there will be no further
,rple ,'7,p until the military returns home.
ne men who did the work last night
Tt. d set OF cowards," said a mine owner
M" eVening. They will do nothing save
", sheaking manner. They prefer to
s,5 power some helpless man by numbers