Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-09
A PITCHED BATTLE
General Bells Command Fired
on by Intrenched Miners.
SIN UNION MEN DEAD, FIFTEEN HELD
Military and Deputies stormed POSI-
tton-MartfaI Law Has Again Been
Observation-Disclosures Will Be
Tried by Soldiers, Court.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, June o.
A pitched battle at Dunnville, twenty
miles south Of Victor took place at a
o'clock between 20Q deputies and
guards under Adjutant General Bell
and about 100 miners from the Cripple
Greek district. The miners were in
trenched in the surrounding hills. Eff
teen miners were captured, and six
union miners were killed.
The captured miners included John
James, charged with shooting John
Davis in the riot at Victor Among the
dead was John Carley, union miner
of Cripple Greek. Great excitement
prevailed in this city upon the receipt
sof the news of the battle
The deputies secured the arms and
ammunition of part of the miners.
AS the special bearing the deputies
drew up at Dunnville the union miners
intrenched in the neighborhood opened
fire. General Bell got his men out and
stormed the intrenched position, cap
turing fifteen, the arms and ammuni-
ton of these men being captured. In
the fierce fight which followed six
union miners were killed.
Teller county is once more under
martial law, and the military is in SUI
preme command. Adjutant General
Sherman Nj Bell has promulgated mill
itary rule by posting on the door of
the armory, where large number of
union men and sympathizers are i'm
prisoned, Acting Governor Warren A.
Haggett's proclamation of martial
law General Bell will be assisted by
Colonel Edward Verdeckberg.
General Bell has appointed COM
mission to try all prisoners. The COM
mission is composed of Mayor, French
of Vfcter, Captain Gail Hoag, Colorado
national guard. and Judge M. Gray.
1.-THE prisoners will be treated fair
ly," said General Bell 1T is not my
desire to infict upon any of them pun
ishment that they do not deserve, and
as fast as this is practicable they will
be sent away or placed in the class
that will be held indefinitely. / intend
| that every man innocent of the crimes
that have been perpetrated in the dis
trict shall go free and every one who is
guilty shall be punished. intend to
have matters in shape soon, SO that
! every business house and every mine
in the district can open and proceed
! with business unmolested.''
General Bell, military commander
with squad OF soldiers, went by trair
/ to Dunnville, new camp opened by
union men about twenty miles south
of the city in Fremont county. The
soldiers were given orders to break uI
the camp and arrest all union mer
found there. 1t was in executing this
order that the fight took place.
Dunnville sprang into prominence
last week when it was reported tina
enormous amounts of free gold ha(
been discovered, and there was an i'm
1 mediate rush to the place by uniol
1 men, who declared that no Others
should be .permitted in the camp, AL
! others were barred. But the camp waI
of mushroom growth, and the thou
sands who encamped there in the frs
two days of its existence dwindlet
away fifty or q hundred a day. Gen
Il eral Bell has expressed the opinion
that the camp was nothing but decoy
and would be used by the miners as /
base of operations.
Seven soldiers sent on horseback tt
Big hill, two miles east of Victor, Il
arrest union miners found them in
trenched. The men refused to sur
render, and the soldiers opened fire
Over 200 shots were fred.
The miners opened fire on the soldiers
as soon as they saw them coming III
the hill. Seven men were captured b.
the guards and taken to Cripple Greek
! Intense excitement again reigns here