Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-09
PITCHED BATTLE
General Bells Command Fired
on by Intrenched Minera
SIX UNION MEN DEAD, FIFTEEN HELD
sIi1itary and Deputies stOrmed POSI-
s~IOn-Martial Law Has Again been
Observation-Disclosures Will Be
Tried b. SOIdicrs' Court.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, June o.
A pitched battle at Dunnville, twenty
miles south of Victor, took place mt 4
O'Clock between 200 deputies and
guards under Adjutant General Bell
| and about 100 miners from the Cripple
| Greek district. The miners We're 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, a union miner
| of Cripple Creek. Great excitement
prevailed in this city upon the receipt
of 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
intrcnched 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 We're killed.
Teller county is ice more under
martial law. and the military is in SUI
preme command. Adjutant General
Sherman NJ. Bell has promulgated mil
itary rule by posting OH the door of
the armory, where a large number of
union men and ~sympathizers are i'm
prisoned, Acting Governor Warren y.
IIaggett's proclamation of martial
law. General Bell will be assisted by
Colonel Edward Nerdeckberg.
General Bell has appointed a COM
mission to try all prisoners. The com
mission is composed of Mayor French
of Victor, Captain Gail IIoag, Colorado
national guard. and Judge NJ. Gray.
'The prisoners will be treated fair
W. said General Bell. 1T is not my
desire to infict upon any of them pun
ishment that they do not deserve, and
rs fast as this is practicable they will
be sent away or placed in the class
shat will be held indefinitely. | intend
that every man innocent of the crimes
that have been perpetrated in the dis
trict shall so 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 Il squad of soldiers, went by train
to Dupnville, Il new camp opened by
union men about twenty miles south
of the city in Fremont county. The
soldiers were given orders to break up
the camp and arrest all union men
found there. 1t was in executing this
order that the fight took place.
Dunnville sprang into prominence
last week when it was reported that
enormous amounts of free gold had
been discovered, and there was an i'm
mediate rush to the place by union
men, who declared that no others
should be permitted in the camp. All
others were barred. But the camp was
Of mushroom growth. and the thou
"'bihn ~ tiNuIliBtu thtlN III TIE HIST
two days of its existence dwindlcd
away fifty or a hundred a day. Gen
eral Bell has expressed the opinion
that the camp was nothing but a decoy
and would be used by the miners as Il
base Of operations.
Seven soldiers sent on horseback to
Big hill, two miles EAST of Victor, to
arrest union miners found them in
trenc!ied. The men refused to sur
render, and the soldiers opened fire.
Over POO shots were fired.
The miners opened fire on the soldiers
as soon as they saw them coming ND
the hill. Seven men were captured by
the guards and taken to Cripple Creek.
Intense excitement again rei"ns here.
ice.