The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-05-06
TERRIBLE WORK
OF STRIKERS
Bunker Hill Mill De-
stroyed by Miners.

WARDNER, Idaho, April 30.-Armed
masked and desperate, 1000 miner
from Canyon Creek poured into tn
| the town at noon yesterday on stolel
Northern Pacific train. Three hour
later they had left with their mission
accomplished. The great Bunker Hill
mill. costing 5000. 900, had been blowr
into a million pieces by the aid of 6
ton and a half of dynamite, which the
rioters brought with them. Although
the mob from Canyon Creek met with
not the slightest resistance, yet they
left here with two OF the Bunker Hill
men shot from behind, while with
them they took the dead body of a
fellew rio.er whom they themselves
had Academia shot.
The man killed was Jack Smith, a
miner of Burke, shot by mistake, and
the injured are James Cheyne, vanner
man at Bunker Hill, shot through the
thigh, and R. r. Rogers, s,.stenographer
at the Bunker Hill mine, shot through
the lip.
At 10 O'Clock q telephone message
received at the Bunker Hill mill from
Burke announced that the men up
the canyon had stolen a Northern
Pacific train and, loading it with dyna
mite, they were coming on. armed and
masked, to blow up the Bunker Hill
mill. Manager Burbridge, of the
Bunker Hill company, saw resistance
was useless, and gave orders for the
property to be deserted. The last man
was hastily Withdrawn, and the great
the largest in the
was left to its fate. Some
Of the employees took to the hills.
Others depended upon the fact that
since they were not miners, and would
not be affected by the union strike,
they would not be molested by the on
coming crowd They staid down near
the railway station to watch the hos
tilities.
The mob spent an hour in the town
perfecting their arrangements, then
started for the big mill. Arriving
there they ordered 5000 pounds of
dynamite, that had been left at the
train uuder guard, brought up, and it
was distributed throughout the mill
" here it would do the greatest destruc-
lion.
When the last charge had been
placed the fuses were lighted and the
house next door to the mill
vas on fire. Then picking up the
body of Smith the strikers started |
pack at swinging trot for the station.
Fire." they shouted, and the re-
naming crowd knowing what was to
:ome, sought cover in the neighboring
Hills. There was another wait and the |
ed boarding house was a roaring |
of flames. Then in second |
Up from the concentrator shot vast |
ray pyre of smoke and debris that |
'ose majesGically to height of per-
laps thousand feet. Borne upward |
With it could be seen great sections of |
and glistening pieces of what
lad once been the machinery of the
,lant. Then came roar that shook
he very earth and crash that almost
plit ones ears. 1t was at 2:20 o'clock.
4 moment more and another mass of /
lebris shot up and the same roar was
leard again. A third, fourth and
fifth explosion followed.
Then after pause, came the last
me. When the SMOKE cleared away.
where the mammoth reduction works
lad been, there was only a chaos of
warped and broken wood and steel.
The destruction had been complete.
After their dreadful work had been
the strikers gathered to-
,ether their forcess aud started on
heir return to Burke. 1t was while
from the mill to the train
hat Cheyne and Rogers were shot.