Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-06-09

Aboard the train We're men picked
p-at various places between lnde-
| lendence and Alta Vista
CRIPPLE CREEK. Colo, June Z
Excitement continues at a high pitch
| over the entire camp this murnin-,
and although the streets are not now
| is crowded as up TO a very late hour
last night, there Is an air of suppress
| I'd excitement that plainly fOretells
more trouble and POSSIBLY more blood
shed Everybody is armed. and It is
| believed that only "A lack Of suitable
eaders prevents bloody war to the
death between the union labor ele
ment and the Citizens Alliance and
mine owners. The men who have
been arrested in the past twentyfour
hours including former City Marshal
O'Connell OF Victor, will be depurted.
probably within twenty-four hours.
There has been no shooting since the
affair at the union miners hall last
evening, and every effort is being
made by the conservative ones to
keep the peace.
A reign of terror existed yesterday
afternoon and last night. The streets
We're thrOnged with men well armed,
| and 1t only wanted a match to start
connagration which would have re-
suited in death and ruin As it was,
riot took place late in the afternoon,
resulting in one man being killed and
several injured The riot started
while mass meeting of members Of
the Citizens Alliance was being held.
Later as a company of militia was
marching past union headquarters pur
suing their search for union miners,
they were fired upon, it is said, by
armed men concealed in union hall.
| The soldiers stormed the building. and
| number OF men were injured, some
probably fatally, in the encounter fol
| lowing. The remainder fed precip-
itately, blood flowing from the many
wounded.
The soldiers who We're unhurt, pnr-
sued and arrested a number of the
fleeing men and continued far into the
| night to scour the country in search
of men supposed to have been in I'M
ion hall at the time of the assault.
At 1890 this morning 200 armed
men battered in the front of the min
ers' union building.
At a meeting of the Citizens All
ance and mine owners last evening
sheriff Robertson and Coroner Dor
gan. alleged to be in sympathy with
| the miners union, were called upon TO
resign under threats of being Hnched,
and they complied with the request.
Edward Bell being appointed shcrin
The city marshal was also arrested
last night by the military, and the
owners of the Record taken in tow for
their leanings toward unionism.
| Normal conditions prevailed here at
9 O'Clock this morning. The authnrl-
ties have the situation well in hand
with sufficient troops and deputies to
maintain law and order The arrest
OF the unionists demOralized further
opposition. and swift and ample pun
ishment is alone needed to maintain
peace Sheriff Bell Insists that all cit
izens go marmed with incarceration
ns the penalty of disobedieuce, Bell
has such u reputation FOR bravery that
his word goes"
A full list of the casualties begin
ming with the dynamite outrage AMI
ending with the battle between the mn
ion miners and the soldiers now num-
her twenty nine. intending fifteen dead.
thirteen of whom died in the eNplo-
sion and TWO in the first riot or the
wounded. six are nun-unionists injured
in the explosion and eight in the two
riots The latter included John Cal
derwood. a prominent union man.
The vigilance committee continues
10 bring in unionists from the smaller
towns 1t is understood that.when all
are arrested they will lie deported.
Governor Peabody Is expected 10 de
clare martial law Indefinitely when he
returns from St Louis. The mine
owners expect to rid the district Of
everyone connected with the Western
Federation of Miners
About 10 this morning Max Bur,
geon, superintendent of construction
of the Denver 4 Southwestern Rail
way, was engaged in some surveying
work on Blue Hill, which Is closely
picketed by the union miners He
was suddenly approached by con
pie of miners and at the point OF a
gun, commanded to show his union
card. When this was not forthcoming
he was Immediately ordered from the
mountain side. Bnrgeon came mme.
dlately to Cripple Creek and conveyed
his news to the vigilance committee.
At IL O'Clock a force Of twenty heavily
armed men started for Bull Hill with
: the avowed intention of arrestng ev-
cry union man on the hill.