The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-06-10
BATHED IN BLOOD.
carnage at Victor, COL, as Result
of Strike Trouble.

.oldiers Charged Mob After an Explosion
of Dynamite Which Killed Eleven Non-e
Union Miners-Courts Sustain
Gov. Peabody.
Cripple Creek. Col, June IA COM
,any of militia marching past union
headquarters in Victor late yesterday
afternoon was fired upon. The mill
IA returned the fire and, it is said,
even unionists were shot dead in their
racks. A riot at mass meeting in
independence preceded this fight and
1t least one man was killed there,
several others being dangerously
Wounded.
A reign of terror, brought on by the
iynamiting plot, early yesterday morn
ng followed by the rioting and the
assault upon the militia, existed in the
mining district last night. Armed men
:hronged the streets and conflicts were
If hourly occurrence. Militiamen
marched hither and thither, making
arrests by wholesale.
AS near as can be estimated % are
lead and score or more injured as a
result of the events leading up to the
conditions described 1t is asserted
oy many, however, that only Is are
lead. The statement that seven were
killed in the last fight is said to be I'M
true. The exact truth could not be
earned last night.
Cause OF the Trouble.
Cripple Creek, Col, June IA con-
cealed assassin by merely pulling a
wire exploded an Internal machine
thereby instantly killing II men and
severely wounding nine others, two of
whom have since died, at Independence
yesterday. All the killed and injured,
with the exception of two men from
Deadwood mine, were non-union min
srs employed on. the night shift of
the Findley mine. The men had quit
work at two a. m. and were waiting to
board the 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, ac-
cording to custom, terrific explosion
occurred underneath the depot plat
form on and near which 26 men were
gathered. The platform was blown
into splinters, the depot was wrecked
and a hole 20 feet in circumference and
about as many feet in depth was torn
In the ground. Fragments of bodies
we're hurled through space for several
hundred feet and later were picked up
az of
dropped into the pit made by the ex-
plosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs,
arms and trunks were strewn about
On all sides. Pieces of flesh were found
IN buildings 500 feet away and blood
stained everything within radius Of
50 feet
Free-For-Am Fight at Meeting.
Victor, Col, June 7-Rioting broke
out in this city yesterday afternoon
while a mass meeting was being held
to discuss the murder of II non-union
miners by means of an Internal ma
chine at independence. Forty shots
were fired into a crowd in the street.
One man was killed and six persons,
at least, injured.
Secretary Clarence G. Hamlin, of the
Mine Owners association, concluding
a short address, said: 81 want to hear
what the boys in the mines have got
to say about this trouble" William
Hoskins, union miner from Goldfield,
threw up his hand and shouted "let me
talk" At this the crowd began to
hiss Hoskins and cry put him out. "
A free-for-all fight followed and shoot
ing began. Hoskins fell with a bullet
in his body and the crowd scattered
In every direction.
After the first excitement had some
what cleared away the injured and the
dying were gathered up. R. MCGEE
of Victor, who was instantly killed
had been standing on an embankment
80 feet above the men who had been
fighting and was an innocent specta-
tor. Alfred Miller and J. D. Davis
were carried to the Victor hospital.
Court Upholds Gov. Peabody.
Denver, Col, June THE state SUI
preme court has refused the -applica
ton for writ of habeas sorpus fol
Charles H. Meyer. president of tn,
Western Federation of Miners, who /!
held as military prisoner at Tellu
ride by order of Gov. James H. Pea
body The governors action in de
claring martial-law in San Migue
county, imprisoning Meyer and othe
union men on the ground that the.
had melted insurrection and rebellion
suspending the writ of habeas corpu
and ignoring the authority of the loca
courts as seems necessary to him il
maintaining law and order is sustained
Chief Justice Gabbert and Justic
Campbell concurred in the decision
Justice Steele dissented.
Bailey aud Williams Chosen.
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