The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-05-04
BLOWN Up BY DYNAMITE
Strikers Demolish Bunker
Hill & Sullivan Mill.
EXPLOSION SHAKES WARDNER
Property valued ut $3.50, 600 to $500
Seized by Mob Of 500 cr 1000.

Spokane, May "A Wardner spe-
oial to the Spokesman Review says:
Wardner today has been the scene of
the worst riots since the ealy labor war
OF 1892. One man IL dead, another is
thought to be MORALLY wounded. and
property valued at $3.50, 600 has been
destoyed by giant powder and fire. The
damage was done by union men and
sympathizers from Canyon creek,
about 30 miles from Wardner.
This morning mob of from 500 to
| 900 men, all of them armed and
many OF them masked, seIzed train
at Burke, ut TIE head OF Canyon creek.
There were nine box cars and passen-
ger coach, and they were black with
the mob. The visitors brought with
them 5000 pounds of giant powder.
After parlcy of two hours, 40
masked men armed with Winchesters,
Burke in the lead and Wardner follow
ing, started with yells for the Bunker
Hill 81 Sullivan mill and other build
ingS. third of a mile from the depot.
They sent pickets ahead. and one of
these pickets fired a shot as signal
that the mill was abandoned.
This was misunderstood by the main
body Of the mob. who imagined that
non-union miners in the mills had
opened fire on them, and they began
firing on their own pickets. About
900 shots were thus exchanged be-
tween the rioters and their pickets. and
Jack Smith, one of the pickets, for
merry of British Columbia, and
noted figure in drill contests, was shot
dead The fatal error was discovered
after few seconds firing and Smiths
body brought down from the hillside.
BY this time the strikers had taken
possession of the Bunker Hill d Suli-
van mill, which they found deserted,
the manager having directed his en-
pIoyes not to risk their lives 10y battl-
ing with the mob
Powder was called for, and 60 90
pound boxes were carried from the
depot to the mill. The heaviest
charge was placed among the machinery
OF the mill. Another charge was
placed under the brick Office building.
Other charges We're placed around the
mill. Then the clearinghouse,
fame structure, WAS fired. Fuses lead
ing to the charges were lighted and
the strikers carrying the dead body OF
the picket, retired to safe distance.
At 2;36 p. NJ. the first blast went
off. 1t shook the ground for miles,
and buildings in Wardner, two miles
away, trembled. At intervals OF about
80 seconds four other charges went Off,
the fifth being the largest and COM
pletely demolshIng the mill. The
loss to the Bunker Hill 81 Sullivan
Company is estimated from $3.50, 600
to $500, 900.
In few minutes the strikers went
back to the station, the whistle was
blown for stragglers, the mob soon
climbed aboard and at 3 O'Clock, Just
three hours after its arrival. the train
pulled ont for Canyon creek.
During the fusiIlade from the guns
of the mob, Jim Chayne, a Bunker
Hill 81 Sullivan millman, was severely
shot through the hips. 1t is reported
that he was carried off by the strikers,
and his wound is probably fatal. J.
J. Rogers. a stenOgrapher in the en-
ploy of the company, was shot through
the lip, but his wound is trivial.
GREAT RUSSIAN FAMINE.