The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
Twentv-Four Leaders Later
PlaEed on a Special Train
and Deported.
MARTIAL LAW PROBABLE
Gen. Bell En- Route from Denver
to Cripple Creek with Proc
lamation.
SITUATION IS CRITICAL
Mine Operators Have Ropes
Ready for Hanging Plo,ters-
More Officials Resign.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col. June 7.-Under
the regime of hundreds of deputy sheriffs
and about $50 militiamen. receiving their
orders from Edward Bell. wealthy mine
owner, who succeeded Sheriff Robertson.
when ne resigned under threats of lynching
yesterday, this gold mining district passed
a comparatively peaceful day. Throughout
the day deputies and soldiers searched the
hills for union miners, and The sum total
of the days arrests was nineteen. This
swelled the number OF men confined in the
bull pea" 20 considerably over 200. and to-
night tvventy-four OF them were placed
aboard II special train and deported from
the district. A guard of deputies rode out
of the district with them. The men were
residents of Cripple Greek. Victor. Inde-
pendence. Goldfeld Anaconda and Altman
They were all active unionists and served
as leaders i'm the strike now pending.
Three additional city officers were forced
to resign their office to-day, namely. Chief
of Police Graham Night Marshal Hardey
and Justice of the Peace Harrington Their
reputed sympathy for unionism led TO this
action. In each a committee of the
Citizens Alliance waited upon them and
compelled them to act Immediately under
Sixteen deputies, armed with sawed-on
shotguns, visited the union store and made
a thorough search for weapons. They were
rewarded with finding rifle and shot
gun. Subsequently they went 10 union
headquarters in an effort TO find the union
records. Their efforts Were unavailing-
All the injured ia the explosion at In
dependence and the rioting in Victor are
reported doing well No definite clew, IL
is understood, has been obtained through
the bloodhounds which were started on the
trail of the persons who placed the internal
machine under the station. at Independence
CLASH MAY BE AVERTED.
While the tension is tightly drawn and
the whole district has taken sides in the
bitter feeling existing betweere the Mine
Owners Association and the unionists. il
is thought that a clash will be averted for
the reason that most, if not all. OF the
union leaders are in durance. The streets
of this city being constantly patrolled
by deputies and soldiers.
There is minority element That wants
to hang S. w. OConnell. former marshal
of Victor. suspended and under :arrest. and
started the riot which resulted sn the Kill
ing of Roxie MCGEE at the mass. meeting in
Victor yesterday afternoon and several 9TH
er leaders. No hanging will t.tke place.
however. in all probability. unless resist
ance is offered by word or action OF the
prisoners. 1t would require bnt little TO
have a wholesale hanging.
Virgil King, a union leader fnd fifteen
TSe SadnE aFsn S fsHr an 5Sf Sg @
ers Union Nc. 40 in Cripple creek Is In
charge of the militia: The frott windows
have been demolished and the pig sign OF
the w. F. o. NJ. torn down.
All officeholders whose resigns tions have
been demanded have furnished them when
/ threatened with hanging.
Photographs OF Charles ,dcCornfacl-
and Melvin Beck, who were keed by an
internal machine i'm the Vindcator mine
November 21. 1903. and of othel- Nindicator
miners, have been found III Possession of
| Frank COchrane, secretary OF zone OF the
miners unions of Victor. Thf discovery
greatly angered officials of the miners As
! sOciatiOn, who declared that C0Anrane shall
be strung until he disclosed : III that he
/ knows concerning the outragev They be-
lieve he has information that will lead to
| the arrest of the perpetrators ol: that crime.
The Victor Record was censored by a spe-
! cial committee appointed by th1 sheriff be-
| fore publication was permitted To-day.
Boys playing in the neighbort ood OF the
hole made by the explosion Il Independ-
/ ence to-day found a portion Oh cheaply
made British bulldog revolver. the weapon
contained one shell and was tfken 10 the
office OF the Citizens Alliance 3rhe finding
/ OF the revolver is regarded IA conclusive
| proof that the dynamite was Set of I'm a
/ fashion similar 10 the explosion of giant
! powder of the Vindicator n.ine4
The bloodhounds in charge OF Hugo
! Palmer. of Trinidad. to-day trFled the as
sassin who killed the Findlay sainers to a
mile beyond Clyde station, Siistance OF
i three miles. There the scent &as lost. IL
is believed by the detective woexing on the
/ case that the assassin took Higgy at the
/ place where the scent was lott and pro-
/ ceeded along the old stage roadto Colorado
Springs. The coroner's jury &vfsited the
scene of the explosion to-day. bitter which
an adjournment was taken unit to- morrow.
i when evidence will be taken.
''The Western Federation OF Miners will
| be hanished from the distrif," declare
the mine owners.
"It has not been proven tina. the dyna-
hitting was done by the Federation" retort
the union men. I'VE have a Right TO
ganiZe and remain here"
/ In Victor business is practically suspend
/ ed and conditions in Cripple Geek are lit
| tie if any, better. All saloon} have been
1 closed by order Of the authorf les. Many
| merchants have closed their stt res, and all
who can are increasing their Insurance.
All mines except the Portland. which en-
ploys union men, are still closid and viii
! be until after the inquest ana funeral OF
the victims OF the dynamite olsrage.
! w H. Ross OF Dayton. Oy has tele-
| gra phed for description Of EdARoss, killed
| in the explosion. whom he believes is his
brother
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