The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-06-07
DYNAMITE OUTRAGE
At RAILWAY STATION

Special to the indianapolis Journal
CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, June 6.-More
than a score of persons were killed and
wounded as an outcome of lawlessness
near here to-day.
A dastardly dynamite plot, executed with
murderous purposes, early this morning
resulted in the blowing up of twenty-six
nonunion miners, of whom thirteen were
killed and seriously injured.
This afternoon, at Victor, several men
were shot down while the streets were
thronged by excited miners. Later the
militia, in self-defense, fired into the union
miners hall and killed at least four men,
1t was rumored that Sheriff Bell also was
shot, but this report later was denied. All
Victor is in .ferment and every man is
armed The mines have closed down and
the militia has been called out. Officers
have resigned and others have been named
Conditions border on anarchy, and the 5000
armed miners may become involved in a
battle at any time.
THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.
The dynamite outrage was a dastardly
murderous plot. Thirteen men were killed
by the explosion of an Internal machine at
the railroad station in Independence early
this morning, and eight others were serf-
ously injured. Eleven men were killed out
right and two died later from wounds. All
the killed and injured. with the exception
of two men from the Deadwood mine,
were nonunion miners employed on the
night shift of the Findley mine The men
had quit work at a. m and were waiting
to board a suburban train on the Florence
& Cripple Creek Railroad and return to
their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor.
Just after the engineer of the approaching
train blew his whistle as signal to the
miners. according to custom, a terrific ex-
plosion occurred underneath the station
platform, on and near which twenty-six
men gathered. The platform was
blown into splinters, the station was
wrecked, and hole twenty feet in circum-
ference and about many feet in depth
was torn in the ground Fragments Of
bodies were hurled through space for sew
eral hundred feet, and later were picked
up still quivering.
Some of the bodies dropped into the pit
made by the explosion, but heads, hands.
ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn
about on all sides. Pieces of flesh were
found on buildings 600 feet away and blood
stains everywhere within a radius of fifty
feet. The force of the explosion was felt
throughout the camp and the crash awak-
ened everybody. The approaching train was
stopped and the train crew were the first
men to reach the scene of the disaster.
They were Joined in a few minutes by hun
dreds of persons and relief work was be-
gul at once. A special train was sent from
Cripple Creek carrying physicians, nurses,
officers and many others. but when it
reached Independence the injured had al
ready been placed on board the suburban
train and removed to the hospital in Victor.
The mangled bodies of the dead, pieced to-
gether well as possible, were removed to
the coroner's office.
THE CASUALTIES.
Following is the list of the dead:
GUS AUSGUSTINE. aged fifteen; has a
brother living in Janesyille. Wis.
ARTHUR MUHLEISE. aged thirty-three:
relatives in Germany.
HENRY HAAG. formerly of Leadville.
ALEXANDER MLANE. Leadville.
CHARLES L. BARBER.
HERBERT M COY.
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