The sun., 1904-06-07
N0N.UNIoN MEN DYNAMITED.
"A COLORADO STRIKE BREAKERS
KILLED BY MINERS.

hILlED bf M1NEn
Several seriously lnjured-Removal Of
Ohlcials Causes Attack on Mine Owners
Mass Meeting. In which One ID Shot
Dead and Seven Are Injured.
VICTOR, Col, June 6.--Fourteen strike
breakers who had been employed In the
mines here were killed early this morning
by the explosion Of dynamite bomb under
the railroad station platform on which
they were standing.
As a result OF the outrage the sheriff and
city marshal, both Of whom we're noted
for their sympathy with the Miners Union.
were removed from Office and a new force
OF deputies and policemen was appointed.
These changes we're the cause OF more
bloodshed.
This evening, while the secretary Of the
Mine Owners Association was addressing
citizens mass meeting in the street. shots
we're fired from the Miners Union Hall,
killing Roxey McGee, wounding Attorney
S. D. Cramp the Governors special repre-
sentative; Peter Fleming, Fred Sturde-
voss William Hoskins, Alfred Miller, j. D.
Davis and n woman whose name Is un-
known.
Capt. Moore, with the Victor company
of State militia, when his efforts to search
the miners union hall were resisted and
his company fred on poured volley after
volley into the hall until a white flag was
shown and the union men marched down
stairs with hands up.
An assassin crouched in the cribhouse
of the Delmonico mine this morning at
,,,ko ha md th~ xvhi Ia
OF an engine on the Florence and Cripple
Creek Railroad, he touched an electric
button and a second later fourteen men
we're dead, five were mangled and torn 80
that they will die, lille dozen more were
groaning on the ground from bruises,
burns and cuts.
The platform on which strike breakers
were standing had been blown UP by dyna-
mite. The men were employed In the
Findley mine and had just come OF the
night shift to take the train for home.
The dead are: Gus Augustine, Arthur
Muhleise, Henry Hagat, Alender MoIane,
Charles E. Barber, Herbert Mccoy, j. H.
Hartsell, William Shanklin. e. Kelso, W. w.
Delaney, Edward Ross and E. H. Johnson.
The bodies of Ross and Kelso are 80 her
ribly mutilated that their Identification
has not been complete.
The most seriously injured are Dan
Gainey, Clarence Allen, Phil Chandler.
j. A. Brooker, Edward Holland, John Pol
lice and Tom Sinclair Holland and Sim
clair arc In . critical condition. Amputaion
has been performed upon some Of the
wounded, and it is almost certain that sew
eral will die.
The Internal machine which caused the
explosion was one OF the most simple ever
constructed for such q horrible purpose.
Il consisted OF loaded revolver with . hong,
slender steel wire attached to tho triggsr.
Ahs rvvolvsr was fastened to the ground
10 that TIE pulling Of the trigger would net
tmSvA ~ The wire ran from under the
&sp6e to the cribbing Of the Delnnonioo
prsperty, about zoo feet away, and It's end
was fastsnsd to q chain.
Tho dynamiter had placed the powder
close to the muzzle of the gun, and when
no pulled the wire the ball from the revolver
entered the explosive and set It of.
After the explosion the streets were i'm
mediately Allied with armed men, and the
perpetrators Of the outrage would have beon
promptly lynched had they been found. As
the news spread throughout the district
armed men poured into the city from all
quarters. Nearly half Of them we're strik-
ers and strike sympathizers, who made
their headquarters at the Miners Union
Hall.
While the mine owners and others were
caring for the injured and preparing the
dead for burial, all the mines in the dis
trict we're cleared and the Mine Owners
Association held 4 meeting. which was
attended by the County Commissioners and
tho Mayor.
Sheriff Robertson was summoned and
forced to resign, the Commissioners ap-
pointing Edward Bell Sheriff. City Mar
shall Mcconnell was deposed and Major
Naylor appointed Marshal.
When this news reached the strikers
they made grave threats and when the
mine owners called the mass meeting they
declared they would break it up.
When the meeting in the street was called
to order Secretary Hamlin Of the Mine
Owners Association made a short ad-
dress, closing as follows:
Il want to hear what the boys In the mines
have got to say about this trouble
William Hoskins, union miner from
Goldheld, threw up his hands and shouted:
let me talk"
At this the crowd began to hiss Hoskins
and cry 'Put him out A free-for-all fight
Iou0~eu anu az iease iofty euo'o "oio
fired.
Roxy MCGEE was killed. Hoskins fell
with a bullet IN his body and the crowd
eoattered in every direction. Secretary
Hamlin, who had been standing on wagon,
kept on talking. unmindful of the hail
storm Of bullets.
Mcconnell the deposed City Marshal,
vas Leader in the attack upon the meet
ing: and is in the bull pen with the strikers
and rioters arrested to-day. There is
intense excitement, and a pitched battle
seems imminent at any moment.
DENVER, June 8.-Gov. Peabody Is on his
way to St Louis, and Lieut.. Gov. Ha ggott
is acting Governor. He has not been
asked for troops, but will have them on
the way to Victor on an hours notice II
they are called for.
WOMAN CAPTURES ROBBERS.
She Found Two In Her House. Grabbed and
Held Them Untn Assistance Arrived.