Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-09
BATHED IN BLOOD.
Carnage at Victor, COL, as Result
of Strike Trouble.
Soldiers Charged . Mob After an Explosion
Of Dynamite which Killed Eleven Nom q
Union Mlners-Courts Sustain
Gov. Peabody.

OF Dynamite which Killed Eleven Nom
Union Mlners-Courts Sustain
Gov. Peabody.
Cripple Creek. Col. June IA COM
pany of militia marching past union
headquarters in Victor late yesterday
afternoon was fired upon. The mill
tia returned the fire and, 1t is said,
seven unionists were shot dead in their
tracks. A riot at a mass meeting in
Independence preceded this fight and
ut least one man was killed there.
several others being dangerously
wounded.
A reign Of terror, brought on by the
dynamiting plot, early yesterday morn
ing followed by the rioting and the
assault upon the militia, existed in the
mining district last night. Armed men
thronged the streets and conflicts were
Of hourly occurrence. Militiamen
marched hither and thither, making
arrests by wholesale.
AS near as can be estimated % are
dead and score or more injured as q
result Of the events leading up to the
conditions described. It is asserted
by many, however. that only Is are
dead. The statement that seven were
killed in the last fight is said to be I'M
true. The exact truth could not be
learned last night.
Cause OF tho Trouble.
Cripple Creek, Col, June IA con-
cealed assassin by merely pulling a
wire exploded an Internal machine
thereby instantly killing II men and
severely wounding nine others, two OF
whom have since died, at Independence
yesterday. All the killed and injured,
with the exception of two men from
Deadwood mine, were non-union min
ers employed on the night shift of
the Findley mine. The men had quit
work at two q. m. and were waiting to
board the suburban train on the
Florence & Cripple Creek railroad and
return to their homes in Cripple Creek
and Victor. Just after the engineer
va thC tidlh piCW uiS
whistle as signal to the miners. &C
cording to custom. terrific explosion
occurred underneath the depot plat
form on and near which 26 men were
gathered. The platform was blown
into splinters, the depot was wrecked
and hole 20 feet in circumference and
about as many feet in depth was torn
in the ground. Fragments Of bodies
were hurled through space for several
hundred feet and later were picked up
still quivering. Some Of the 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 and blood
stained everything within a radius of
so feet.
Free-For-AH Fight Mt Meeting.
Victor, COL, June 7.-Rioting broke
out in this city yesterday afternoon
while a mass meeting was being held
to discuss the murder Of IL non-union
miners by means of an internal ma
chine at Independence. Forty shots
were fired into crowd in the street
One man was killed and six persons,
ut least, injured.
Secretary Clarence C. Hamlin, OF the
Mine Owners association, concluding
a short address, said: 81 want to hear
what the boys in the mines have got
10 say about this trouble" William
Hoskins, union miner from Goldfield,
threw up his hand and shouted ..'let me
talk" At this the crowd began to
hiss Hoskins and cry put him out"
free-for-all fight followed and shoot
Ing began. Hoskins fell with bullet |
In his body and the crowd scattered
In every direction.
After the first excitement had some
what cleared away the injured and the
dying were gathered up. r. MCGEE,
Of Victor, who was instantly killed,
had been standing on an embankment |
30 feet above the men who had been
lighting and was an innocent specta-
tor. Alfred Miller and J. D. Davis
we're carried to the Victor hospital.
Court Upholds Gov. Peabody.
Denver, COL, June THE state SUI
preme. court has refused the applica-
ion for a writ of habeas sorpus for |
Charles H. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation of Miners, who is
held as a military prisoner at Tellu-
.ide by order Of Gov. James H. Pea
body. The governors action in de-
,laring martial-law in San Miguel
county, imprisoning Meyer and other
inion men on the ground that they
lad melted instruction and rebellion,
the writ Of habeas corpus
md ignoring the authority of the local
courts as seems necessary to him in
law and order is sustained.
thief Justice Gabbert and Justice
Campbell concurred in the decision.
Justice Steele dissented.