The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-05-01
BLOWN UP
BY STRIKERS
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mill
Blown Up at WardnGr.
ONE DEAD AN
OTHER WOUNDED
Property Worth $25O,OOo to 100000
Shattered-Train Seized by Mob
of 500 or 1000.

SPOKANE, April pa Wardner special
to the Spokesman Review says:
Wardner today 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 $3.50, 900 has been de-
stroyed by giant powder and fire. The
damage was done by union men and
sympathizers from Canyon creek, about
20 miles from Wardner.
This morning mob of from 800 to 10C0
men, all of them armed and many
of them masked, seized train at Burk e,
at the head of Canyon creek. There
we're nine box cars and a passenger
coach, and they were black with the mob.
The visitors brought with them 30Co
pounds of giant powder.
After parley of two hours, I4o masked
men. armed with winchesters, Burke in
the lead and Wardner following, started
with Yells for the Bunker Hill& Sullivan
mill and other buildings, third of a
mile from the depot. They sent pIckets
ahead, and one of these pickets fred a
shot as signal that the mill was aban-
doned. 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 1000
shots were thus exchanged between the
rioters and their pickets. and Jack
Smith, one of the pIckets, formerly 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 & Sullivan
mill, which they found deserted, the
manager haxing directed his employees
not to risk their lives battling with the
mob.
Powder was called for, and 60 So pound
boxes were carried from the depot to the
mill. The heaviest charge was placed
among the machinery of the mill. An
other charge was placed under the brick
Office building. Other charges were
placed around the mill. Then the board
ng-house, a frame structure, was fired,
Fuses leading to the charges were lighted,
and the strikers carrying the dead body
of the picket, retired to safe distance.
At 2:36 p, m. the first blast went off
1t shook the ground for miles, and build
inge in Wardner, two miles away, trem.
bled. At intervals of about thirty seconds
four other charges went off, the fifth be-
ing the largest and completely demolish-
ing the mill. The loss to the Bunker
Hill & Sullivan Company is estimated
from $3.50. 900 to $3oO,O
In a few minutes the strikers weni
back to the station, the whistle was blowr
for stragglers, the mob soon climbed
abroad and at o'clock, just three hours
after its arrival, the train pulled out fol
Canyon creek.
During the fusillade from the guns O
the mob, Jim Chayne, Bunker Hill
Sullivan millman, was severely sho
through the hips. It is reported that hi
was carried off by the strikers, and hi
wound is probably fatal. j. j. Rogers
stenographer in the employ of the com
pany, was shot through the lip, but hi
wound as trivial.