The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-04
ONE STRIKER
 IS KILLED Trouble at Smuggler-
 Union Mine. MANY KINDS OF RUMORS The Excitement is Now Rapid ly Subsiding. The Controversy Adjusted for the Present and Everything is Quiet
 in the Marshall and
 Savage Basins.
MANY KINDS OF RUMORS

Denver, Col, July 3.-A special to The News from Telluride. Col, says: The excitement which has been prev ailing all day over the riot in the Smuggler- Union mine is rapidly sub siding this evening. The controversy has been satisfactorily adjusted for the present and everything is quiet in Mar shal and Savage basins.
 Early this morning word was re- ceived in town that there was consid- erable shooting going on at Smuggler at 5 o'clock. and many kinds Of ru- mors were afloat. The trouble is only a part of the strike trouble which has been brewing for some time. The first rumor to reach town was that eight or ten had been killed. but this proved not to be true, but Will Jordan was shot in the right hip; the right arm of Charles Becker, Superintendent of the mine. was broken and badly shat tered from bullets; Shift Boss NiNtol- son was shot in the head, and '. Lu- ian, a Mexican trimmer, was killed.
 Jordan was brought to town about o'clock this afternoon. Or. sheldon
 was called to the Bullion Tunnel to
 dress the wounds of the injured men and sent a message about noon say ing that Becker had bad arm ard
 that Nicholson. who was shot m the
 head had bare chance to live. At the
 time those were the only men on eith-
 CT side whose wounds he mad attended
 to. Most of the fourteen shots were exchanged between the miners, Depu-
 ties and guards. but at 1 o'clock all
 was quiet with the exception of a few
 shots now and then.
 A Cabin Blown Up.
 Some time this afternoon one of the cabins lsaear the office buildings was blown up, but 1t is Impossible to learn
 what damage, if any. was done. The Liberty Bell and Tomboy min- CTS have all practically gone out in sympathy and those properties are all
 but idle. Miners were seen coming
 over the range this morning from the
 Ouray and Silverton sides and 1t is
 reported that the Camp Byrd and Rev enue mines are also out in sympathy,
 but as to these last named properties the report cannot be verified.
 The Mayor has ordered all saloons to
 be closed from p. m. to a. m. un-
 til otherwise notified. Telephone wires have been cut and there has been no communication between the town and
 Smuggler Hill all day.
 The killed. as far as known. are;
 John Barthell. a union miner: J. l.. Lujan, a Mexican. employed as trim mer in the mines. Wounded: Charles M. Becker, mine superintendent. right hin broken and badly shattered bv bull net: w, J, Ordan. shift boss. and Dep
 uty Sheriff, shot through hips. no bones broken; John Nicholson. shot through head. will probably die: unknown man. shot through both legs.
 All the wounded except the last were working in the mines.
 As nearly as can be learned the hghf was precipitated at the Sheridan tun- nel which is about thre-auarters of a mile above Bullion tunnel where the principal boarding and bunk houses and other buildings and upper terminal of the tramway are located. During last night a number of union miners went up to a point near these places and at o'clock this morning. 1t 's said, sent a man with message to the
 men working with William Jordan to
 the effect that if they would stop work and come down the hill there would Dc
 no trouble. In response to this mes
 sage. it is said the union men were
 fired on. resulting in the instant killing of Barthell.
 Jordan and his crew then sought ref uge in an old tunnel and 1t was while running for its mouth that Jordan was
 shot through the hips. At about Il
 o'clock an opportunity was offered for
 bringing Jordan to town by an old and
 unused train, all other avenues to the
 basin being strongly guarded by the union men. The firing gradually work ed down to Bullion Tunnel. Telephone wires leading from town to the mines in Marshall and Savage basin were cut early and communication shut off until late this afternoon. It Is impossible to
 learn any particulars of the fighting.
 as both sides refuse to say anything.
 During the day all kinds of rumors were current. some that fifteen men were killed. Late this evening Dr. sheldon. who went up early this morn ing, telephoned that ten men, includ- ing the four mentioned above, were i'm iured and that they would be sent down as rapidly as he could dress their wounds. pr. sheldon was shot through the hand by a stray bullet.
 - The Tomboy and Liberty Bell min CTS who went to the Smuggler- Union early this morning, compelling those pronerties to close down, returned to their respective mines thls afternoon after 1t was announced that a tempo rary agreement had been reached by the union and Edgar Collins, Assistant Manager. This agreement is said to be | that the company will withdraw all the men from the mines except a few l watchers and make no effort to re- | sume work until the strike is amicably sattIed and officially declared off