Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-06-20

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of the passengers lost their lives by
being burned, drowned or crushed to
death in the terrible panic about.
Early Thursday morning 483 bodies
had been recovered. Other hundreds
were injured. The boat caught fire in
the lunch room. Cap ain Schaiek
seeing the flames called for full speed
and headed. for north of Brothers
Island. Meanwhile the scenes on
board were frghtful. The flames
spread with terrible rapidity and
men, women and children rushed
about in wild fear, shriekiDg and in
tears. The mothers, as the flames
grew near, gathered children into
their arms and leaped into the water
Others too daz6d to move stood
still and were burned to death.
An eye witness states that as the boat
neared the shore she was surrounded
on all sides by floating bodies of pas
sengers, who jumped for life. On the
north of Brothers Island is located the
hospital for contagious diseases, and
some other city institutions. The en-
pIoyes of these pulled ashore scores
of people, many blackened and
burned by fire. When the DIRE ad tale
of the General Slocum disaster is fully
told, when the last blackened body
has been taken from the burned hulk
and the swift waters of He'll Gate give
up the dead, the catastrophe will take
its place as the most appalling that
ever occurred in the inland waters of
America. Definite figures on the loss
of life cannot yet be given. That
more than five hundred persons per-
ished is Certain, but how much in ex-
cess of that number the total will run
will only be Known when the miss
ing" column Ii flashed.
Labor Troubles in Colorado
The LABOR troubles that have long
kept the county OF Telluride, Col, in
a condition OF UurmOI led up Monday
to dasJardly Deed by hlch fifteen
men were killed. The men were nom
union miners employed on the night
shift of the FIndley mine and were
standing on the depot platform at In
dependence waiting for train to take
them to their homes in Cripple Greek
and Victor. Just as the train APP
preached, tremendous explosion oc-
Cured beneath the platform and the
miners were blown to atoms Or mutt
lated in horrible manner. The plat
form was blown into splinters, the
station was wrecked and a hole 20
feet in circumference and 20 feet in
depth was torn in the ground. Frag
ments of bodies were hurled several
hundred feet. Several bodies dropped
into the pit made by the explosion
but heads, hands, ears, legs, arms and
trunks were etreWn about on all sides.
Pieces of flesh were found on buildings
so feet away, while splashes of blood
were found on everything within a
radius of so feet. The approaching
train was stopped and the trainmen
rushed ahead to the scene of the
disaster. They were joined in few
minutes by hundreds of persons and
relief work was begun at once. An
examination of the premises revealed
that an internal machine had been
placed under the platform, containing
probably 300 pounds of dynamite
which was set off by a pistol dis
charged 10y means of wire connect
ing, whose end was 400 feet away.
The man who pulled the wire was
seen running from his place of con-
cealment and was later tracked by
bloodhounds, but the trail was lost.
When the news reached Victor, riot
ensued and two men were killed in
the firing that took place. The
county sheriff, a union man, was
forced to resign, being threatened
with hanging if he did not. Over ECO
arrests, mostly of union men, have
been made. Troops are on duty to
prevent further outbreak. The great
est bitterness exists between the
union miners on strike and the other
faction, consisting of mine owners,
on-union miners and citizens. Many
union men have been run out of the
district under threats of violence.
STATE NEWS