The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-07
TERROR REIGDS In
COLORADO AGAIN
Fatal Riots in Victor Follow
Dynamite Murders Near
Cripple Greek.
Vigilance Committee Patrols En-.
tire Country Where Labor
War Is Resumed.

war Is Resumed.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 1.-Two
1aousand persons congregated this
afternoon at Second and Bennett ave-
nues, Citizens Alliance headquarters,
FOR a mass meeting to be addressed /
by the mine owners and business men.
Armed squads are searching for sew
eral men.
Lynching is freely talked Of and al
most every man is armed.
Inc union stores are In charge of
deputy sheriffs. Wholesale arrests of
union men are to be made as fast as |
they are found. Mounted armed men
nave been sent on quick march to |
the extreme northern and southern
ends of the districts to guard avenues
OF escape of all union men marked to
be arrested.
All mines except the Portland which
employees union men are still closed
and will be until after the inquest and
funeral Of the victims Of the dynamite
outrage.
Company H, Colorado National
Guard, is under arms at the armory
in this city and will be called out
should there be rioting here.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 7.-After
a night Of terror comparative peace
prevails turnout this great gold camp
Io-o1Jt Oul are SLlll OF VOL
can1c nature and nobody believes that
the trouble Is yet ended. Fifteen
deaths have resulted from the dyna-
mite outrage at Independence, several
OF the injured are in a critical condi-
ton, and two men were killed and
eight wounded In the subsequent riot
ing in Victor.
Following is a list Of the casualties
In the rioting. Killed:
ROxIE MCGEE.
JOHN DAVIS.
Wounded: j. A. Reed, Joe Findley,
Fire Chief Murphy, Peter Chrisman,
Fred Studenbauch, Peter Calderwood,
Arthur Parker, James McKelvel
Two more names to-day were added
to the list of those killed by the indie
pendence dynamiting. They are
George S. Henderson and Fred Beck
ley. f
1t is believed that the. bodies Of sew
eral others were blown to atoms
George has been appointed coroner in
place Of James Doran who has been
forced to follow the example of Sheriff
Robertson in resigning, and will hold
the inquest over the dead miners.
A thoroly organized vigilance COM
mittee composed Of mine owners and
their employees and sympathiZers has
taken charge of the government Of
Teller county and large squads of
armed men are patrolling the district.
These men are ostensibly acting under
orders Of Edward Bell, the new sher-
if, who Is a large property owner and
an outspoken opponent OF the miners
union.
Forced to Resign.
Sheriff Henry M. Robertson re-
signed under. compulsion. He was
forcibly taken to the headquarters of
the Miners association and his resig-
nation was demanded. At first he re-
fused to resign, but when finally a coil
of rope was thrown at his feet he
weakened and signed the resignation
which had been provided for him.
The first act of Sheriff Bell was to
take away the star Of Under-sheriff
J. Knox Burton. Then he appointed
twenty five deputies, to which force
large additions have since been made.
and later he disarmed the union Of
f1cers who had been appointed by City
Marshal Michael O'Connell Of Victor
Meantime O'Connell had visited the
mine owners headquarters, in which
about thirty armed men were assem-
bled, and demanded that they sur
render their arms to him. He was
forcibly elected, and after being de-
posed from office by Mayor French
he was placed under arrest.
Many of the other regularly chosen
peace officers of the various towns
in the district also have been deposed
and some Of them locked up, with
arrested after the rioting in Victor.
The sentiment of the mine owners
as voiced by G. @. Hamlin, secretar!
of the association, is that all unior
miners must be driven out Of tn
camp. His declaration that the time
had come to purge the district
started the rioting at the mass meet
ing in Victor, called to discuss tn,
dynamite outrage at Independence.
IT'S up to you to drive these scoun
drels out" Hamlin had declared
whereupon Alfred Miller, union MAI
who had been sworn in as deput.
sheriff, raised his rifle and inquired
Whom are you referring tor"
Miller's rifle was seized and tn
shooting began which resulted in tn
death Of Roxie MCGEE, a nonunio1
miner and the wounding of six othe
persons, one of whom, John Davis
also a nonunion miner, died a fey
hours later.
First Shot Fired.
The first shot was fired by som
one in the crowd. This was followe
Immediately by two rifle shots fror
windows of the miners union hal
A man standing in the door of tn
union store, it is said, also fired int
the crowd with a repeating shotgun
Sheriff Bell called on the local com
pany of the state guard, commando
by Captain Harry G. Moore, to asss
in preserving order and in arrestin
the men in the union hall. Soldier
were stationed on the roof of tn
building opposite the hall and from
this point of vantage fired into tn
door and windows of the hall. A scat
tering fire was kept up by both side
for twenty minutes at the end o
which the miners surrendered.
Only three wounded men, Calder
wood. Parker and McKelvel wer
found in the hall and there were n
casualties in the attacking party. TIL
uninjured men in the hall, forty i
number, were all placed under arres
and all books and documents Of tn
union were seized.
During the night further arrest
were made in Victor, Goldield an
Independence. The union stores
Victor and Goldfeld were wrecked an
the stocks scattered in the streets b
mob. This was not countenance
by Sheriff Bell or others in authorit.
Among those taken prisoner was &c
1tor George Kyner Of the Victor Rec
ord, but he was subsequently released
A bloodhound brought from Trim
dad took the trail Of the person VIII
exploded the dynamite at IndepenG
ence by pulling a wire attached to