Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-07
RloT,Ne GROWS SERIOUS.
Great Disorder During Mass Meeting
to Discuss Internal Machine Mur-

ders.
Victor, Col, June 7.-Rioting broke
out in this city while mass meeting
was being held to discuss the murder OF
twelve non union miners by means of
an Internal machine at Independence.
Forty shots were fired into crowd in
the street. One man was killed and six
persons at least injured. The dead:
r. McGee, of Victor, shot thru the
heart.
The injured:
William Hoskins. of Goldfeld, shot
thru the body; may die.
Alfred Miller, OF Goldfield, shot in the
body; may die.
j. Davis, skull fractured by blow
from a revolver; serious.
Peter Fleming. shot.
Fred Strudevess, engineer at lnde-
pendence mine.
An unknown woman.
Secretary Clarence G. Hamlin, OF the
Mine Owners association. concluding q
special address. said: i want to hear
what the boys In the mines have got 10
Fsay about this trouble.
William Hoskirs union miner from
GOldheid, Threw UP MS Hauo aiiu SAAoNe-
ed: Let me talk"
AT this the crowd began to hiss Hos
kins and cry put him out"
A free for all fight followed and
shooting began.
Most of the shots were directed sky
ward.
Hoskins fell with bullet in his body
ara the crowd scattered In every di-
Irection.
Secretary Ha,nlin, who had been
standing on a wagon, kept talking. un-
mindful of the hailstprm of bullets that
whizzed about his head.
After the first excitement had some
what cleared away the injured and the
dying We're gathered up.
r. MCGEE, OF Victor, who was In
stantly killed, had been standing on
an embankment thirty feet above the
men who had been fighting and was an
innocent spectator.
Alfred Miller and ]. D. Davies were
carried to the Victor hospital.
An eye witness; of the shooting said:
II saw them carry three men away.
one shot through the head and another
thru the arm. / think that more than
five were shot,"
A pitched battle is looked for at any
moment. There are 5000 men on the
streets, and union men are arming
themselves and lined up on the corners
of Fourth and Victor avenues.
Previous to the rfoting Sheriff Hen
ry NJ. Robertson had been summoned
to a meeting of The mine owners asso-
citation in Armoiy hall, by committee
composed of c. G. Ha.niin, secretary of
the association; j. S. Murray. manager
of the Findlay mine and l.. e. Hill,
Of the Theresa. At this meeting his
resignation was demanded. He yield
ed to the demand. Then Edward Bell
was appointed by the county commits
sioners to fill out Robertson's unexplred
term Robertson was union miner De-
fore he was elected sheriff. Bell Is a
member Of the Citizens Alliance.
Nearly all mines in the district had
been closed by order of the mine own
ers' association and hundreds of min
ors focked into town from the sur
rounding hills. Fully 1900 supporters
of the association grouped ABOUT the
armory, where it was meeting. At the
same time 1000 men, armed with ail
sorts Of wea pons, were assembling on
the vacant ground at the corner OF VIC
tor avenue and Fourth street in re-
sponse to call for mass meeting.
Most of these We're union men who de-
clared their intention to resist to the
death any attempt to run them out or
the district. City Marshal O'Connell
hurriedly swore in several hundred cit
liens most of them union men, as dep
uty policemen, after being refused ad-
mission to the mine owners headquar-
ters. After conference with Sheriff
Bell and a number of mine owners,
Mayor Frank d. French removed City
Marshal OConneil, who then dismissed
his deputies.
Then followed the rioting In which
McGee was killed and at least six per-
sons injured.
After the rioting began Sheriff Bell
ordered out the soldiers in the district.
He also appointed one hundred dep
uties Wholesale arrest of union men
will be made, il is said.
Soldiers have already arrested
trio of editors and printers of the Daily
Record and City Marshal O'Connell,
and put them In the bull pens.
All wealthy Iaine owners are carry
ing guns.
ATTACKED MINERS UNION HALL.