Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

PARTY = TWO OTHER MEN
WOUNDED.
wardner, Idaho, April 2s.--Wardner
to-day has been the scene OF the worst
riots since the deadly labor war OF
1892.
One man Is dead. another Is thought
to be mortally wounded, and property
valued at $25o.0OO has been destroyed
by giant powder and fire.
The damage was done by union min
ers and sympathizers from Canyon
Creek, about twenety miles from Ward
ner.
This morning mob of from 500 to
1000 men, all armed and many OF them
masked, seized train at Burke, the
head of Canyon Creek. There were
| nine box cars and a passenger coach,
and they were black with the mob.
The visitors brought with them 5000
pounds of giant powder.
After parley of two hours, 140
| masked men, armed with Winchester
rifles, the Burke men in the lead, and
| those from Wardner following, start
ed with yells for the Bunker Hill and
| Sullivan mill and other buildings. {
third OF mile from the depot. They
sent pickets ahead and one of them
fred a shot as signal that the mill
was abandoned. This was misunder-
stood by the main body OF the mob.
| who imagined that non-union miners
| in the hills had opened fire on them
| and they began to fire upon their own
| pickets.
About 1000 shots were thus exchang-
ed between the rioters and their pick
cts. e !. 8,
Jack Smith. one OF the pickets. fof~
merly of British Columbia. and q noted
figure in drill contests.
WAS SHOT DEAD.
| By this time the strikers had taken
| possession OF the Bunker Hill and Sui
Ivan mill, which they found deserted.
the manager having directed his en-
| ployes not to risk their lives by bat
| Ting with the mob.
Powder was called for and sixty
pound boxes were carried from the
depot to the mill.
| The heaviest charge was placed under
| the brick office building. Other charges
were placed around the mill. Then the
| bearing house, q frame structure. was
! burned.
| Fuses leading to the charges were light
| ed and the strikers. carrying the dead
| body of the picket, retired to a safe dis
lance.
| At 2:s5 the first blast went of. 1t shook
| the ground for miles and buildings In
Wardner, two miles away, trembled.
At intervals OF about sixty seconds. four
other charges went on. the fifth being the
| largest and completely demolished this
mill.
| The losssto the Bunker HIN and Sullivan
| Company Is estimated at from s250,0oo to
500. 900.
| In a few minutes the strikers went back
| to the station. the whistle was blown for
stragglers. the mob climbed aboard and at
9 o'clock, Just three hours after its arrival.
the train started for Canyon Creek
| During the fusilade from the guns OF the
mob. Jim shayne. Bunker Hill and Sui
| Ivan mill man. was severely shot through
| the hips. 1t Is reported that no Was car
ried Off by the strikers and that his
wound is probably fatal j. J. Rogers. q
stenographer for the company. gas shot
| through the Up. but his wound Is trivial
This morning the 20 non-union miners
a g..
warning OF the coming OF the mob and
| left the mine and took 10 the hills. They
| have not been seen since.
| Union men working in the Last chancs
| left the mine this afternoon presumably
| TO take part in the riots.
| The present strike In the Couer d'Alens
mining district began about ten days ago.
and Ia directed principally against the
| Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine at Ward
ner. where non-unIon men are employed.
The demands Of the miners for increased
| wages were met by the mine owners. but
the miners demaided that the union be-
| recognized and that the non-unlon men be
discharged. This the mine owners re-
| fused to do. and the Last Chance nina
closed to-day. The Bunker Hiil and sui
Ivan, however. continued 10 run with non-
union men until to-day. when they were
driven out.
Tonight the Bunker Hin and Sullivan
mine IS closed indefiniteIy. With the mill
| wrecked 1t Is impossible TO handle the ore
produced at the mines The Last chancs
Is likewise closed down. 1t has been ret
ting power from the Bunker HIN mine
and the destruction OF those works viii
prevent the Last Chance from WORKING
for the next three months or until Ii.
own compressor 10 completed. Meanwhsls
the total working force Of the town Is laid
of.
The wreckins oe the mill plant Involves
the livelihood OF Go men. The Bunker
Hin mine up TO the time Of the strike had
been working go men. and the min %.
while the Last Chance altogether en-
ployed $50.