The sun., 1896-09-22
SHOT DOWN BY STRIKERS
SEvERAb MEN KILLp M UNIon
MINERS AT LEADTILLE.
Some OF Their Own Number shot-The1
Rurn Down the Coronado SHAFT IHSnss
and Other Buiidings-NHiIitia Hnstily
Sent from Denver aud other Towns

htufn hOWn tho CORONADO 5nntt Ah'uuN
md Other Buiidings-Nnttis Hnsti1y
Sent from Beaver and Other Towns
LEApvILLE. Col.., Sept. 21.-Leadville 10
battle ground to-day, and the Coronado mine
the sceno OF n desperate engagement betwees
strikers and the twenty men whowero workinRm
and living at the mine. The strikers burned
the Coronado shaft house and made an attach
on the men. but they were driven from thsti
ground with three Of their members mortaltl
wounded and two seriously injured.
The most atrocous crime committed during
this lawless attnck was the shooting and morta,
wounding OF Jerry o'Keefe. whos was doing his
duty rs q fireman trying to extnguish the blaze
that. despite the efforts Of tho Fire Department.
consumed four dwelling houses, ms well ~
the Coronado shaft house and outbuildinga
But the bloody work OF the strikers was not con
fined alone to the Coronado mine. mob gath
cred around the Emmett a little while after ths
attack was made on the Coronado, but the men at
the Emmett were ready for the attack, and when
the crowd appeared they fired n voller Mt them
and they found 1t unsafe to 20 further in their
nefnrious work. Not one of their number was
killed, but Jerry Mahoncy. IL miner living near
the Resurrection. who happened to be coming
along the road at the time, walked between the
strikers and the mon on the inside, and at the
first volley was shot dead.
At the FL Paso also. the mon were attacked
by strikers. but they left the shaft house
and sought cover under bushes close BY.
Here they were awaiting tho attack
Of tho strikers, but the latter did
not come near tho property, contentinK
themselves with firing about a hundred shots
into the shaft house. Armed men also
prowled around the Ram mine at about
the time and fired several shots
into the shaft house. but did not come
enOuph tn hnm m
hre the buildings. great quantity Of giant
powder was burned outside the fence of the
Emmett mine. but no harm was done by IL.
This powder was brought to blow the En-
NETT shaft house. but the resistance made TO
the attack by the men on the inside foiied the
strikers and fearing that they would he caught
with the powder in their possession they burned
The men who were killed at the Coronado ares
strikers.
JERRY o'KEErE fireman.
WILL HIGGINS.
No one is able personally to identify either
was mortally wounded in the affair. has four
is pronounced dangerous. just below the abdo-
men. Higgins is not more than twenty years
John Mahoney Is not dead. but the doctors
say he cannot live. Mahoney is not q
He wa. Morkns lease with pwo oIhees
and they were with him when hs was
shot, but none of tho men knew they had
walked into q death trap until Mahoney was
pierced by q bullet and fell from his horse. None
of tho men killed have families.
The Governor to-day ordered out tho militia
and they are going to Lendvile to snppress the
The Denver City Troop. Capt Parkhihl:
Chafee Light ARTILLERY. Major Kincaid; Co1,-.
pany b. First Infantry. Capt Gill: CompanysEgs
First Infantry, Capt. Look; Company K, + ~
Infantry, Capt. HeiniG; Company Z, second .n-->
fantry. Pueblo; Company U. Capt. Barnumy
Company E. Leadville. Capt. Goddard; COM
pany F. Leadville. Can't. Lasell; Company g.
Leadvllc. Capt. Sewau.
II necessary six more companies of infantry
available.
The Denver troops left there at &: 30 A. NJ. on
special train. They reached Lead vile late this
afternoon; Troops from other parts OF tie
State arrived at The same time. Late in the
day quiet had been completely restored.