The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-10
MEN BLOWN TO BITS
Dynamite is Exploded By An Internal
Machine.
TWELVE DEAD AND SEVEN HURT.
FrghtfuI elimination of Labor Troubles in the
Cripple Creek Region-Three Hundred
Pounds of Dynamite Are Exploded Under
the Depot as Miners Were About to Take
Train.

the Depot as MINERS were ADouf 10 lake
Train.
Denver, (SpeciaD. - Twenty-Five
miners are dead and many are injured
as the result of day of anarchy and
terror in the Cripple Creek mining re-
gions.
Thirteen of these were killed and
injured by the eplosion of an internal
machine under the station platform at
independence, six miles from Cripple
Creek.
Adjt.-Gen. Sherman Bell, at 7
o'clock P. M, received a report by
telephone from Victor that seven min
ers had been killed in battle at the
Miners Union headquarters, on
Fourth street. and as many injured
Two were killed in riot which pre-
ceded the descent of the guard on
Miners Union Hall and seven in the
battle at the hall. The report does
not give the names of the dead, but
all were miners, and the guards who
had engaged in the attack escaped
without even a wound
The bull pen" is full to overflow
ing now and is under strong guard.
1t is reported that an attack may be
made on it at any time, and every pre-
caution is being taken to meet it.
General Bell has made all arrange
nents to hurry troops from this city
and from other points in the State to
the scene of the disorder at a
moments notice. The new Sheriff of
Cripple Creek and the guards there
say they belive that they will be fully
able to command the situation. Ar
rests are being made hourly, and an
effort is being made to clear the
streets, which are thronged with ex-
cited men,
The troops have been called out
for service in. surpressing the riot
in the Victor and the Cripple Creek
district The Sheriff is empowered
to call out such troops in his own.
county as are available for service
within that county. Under this law
the Sheriff has called Company H, of
Cripple Creek, and 1873 of these men
orders of Lieut. James L. Wallace,
are modifying in the armory to obey
who will be under direction of the
Sheriff for the present.
The Mayor has sworn in and armed
500 citizens to assist in the suppress
sion of violence and quelling the
rioters.
The Western Federation of Miners
will investigate the dynamite outrage
at independence. At the session of
the Federation's convention COM
mittee was appointed to go to the
Cripple Creeks region to make a
thorough investigation of the affair
and to spare no one in its report.
10 Blown To Bits.
Cripple Creek, Col, (SpeciaD.-
Thirteen men were killed and six
were severely wounded by the explo-
sion of an internal machine at the
railroad station in independence.
Eleven men were killed outright,
being blown to pieces, and two died
later from wounds. All the killed and
injured, with the exception of two
men from the Deadwood mine, were
non-union miners employed on the
night shift of the Findley mine.
The internal machine with which
the murder was committed consisted
of a quantity of dynamite, probably
800 pounds, loaded revolver and
long, fine steel wire attached to the
trigger The revolver was fastened
so that the pulling of the trigger
would not draw it away. The wire
ran from under the station platform
to the cribbing of the Delmonico
property, about 400 feet away, where
its end was fastened to rung of a
chair.
The dynamite was placed close to
the muzzle of the revolver, which was
discharged by pulling the wire. The
ball from the revolver and the re-
sultant conclusion exploded the dyna-
mite.
Bloodhounds On Trail.
A man was seen running down the
hill from the Delmonico property after
the explosion. The troops in Victor
who were ordered out by Mayor
French were so stationed as to keep
people from passing over the path
taken by this man, and bloodhounds
were sent from Canyon City and
Trinidad to trail the assassin.
The internal machine used was
similar to the one exploded in the
indicator Mine on November 81,
1908, killing two men.
The men quit work at O'Clock in
the morning and were waiting to
board a suburban train on the
Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad
to return to their homes in Cripple
Creek and Victor.
A Gruesome Scene.
Fragments of bodies were hurled
several hundred feet Several bodies
dropped into the pit made by the ex-
plosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs,
arms and trunks were strewn about
on all sides. Pieces of flesh were
found on buildings 500 feet away, while
splashes of blood were found on every
thing within radius of so feet The
force of the explosion was felt throug-
out the, camp, the crash awakened
everybody. The approaching train
was stopped and the trainmen rushed
ahead TO the scene of the disaster.
They were joined in few minutes by