Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-14
RIOT AT VICTOR.
Colorado Dynamite Outrage Followed
by Fatal Battle,


The authorities at Victor Colo. have
arrested and are holding $50 union min
ers prisoners. as result of the riots
and clashes with the troops in the labor
war. These men have been arrested
throughout the district and taken to the
military prison. 4 reign of terror still
exists throughout the region and although
the situation is well in the hands Of the
troops, further outbreaks are feared at
any time. The union men are in the
minority and many of them are seeking
the shelter of the military prison in or
der 10 save their own lives.
At an early hour Tuesday a mob of
2OO armed men crushed in the front OF
the Miners Union building in Bennett
avenue with a battering ram. Union
men fled to escape mob violence The
soldiers pursued and continued firing and
TO scour the country for men who were
in the union hall
The vigilance committee organized is
still at work in the small towns arrest
ing unionists and bringing them to Vic
tor, where they are placed under heavy
military guard. These arrests will CON
tiDue, a Victor dispatch says, until every
prisoner, whe:s, il is understood, they
will be placed on board special train
and deported from the county.
Sheriff Bell, who succeeded II. NJ.
Robertson, announced that all citizens
must go unarmed and any one who dis
obeys this order will be promptly ar
rested by the militia Resistance to his
orders means shooting and no interfer-
ence of any kind will be tolerated.
Sheriff Henry NJ. Robertson resigned
under compulsion He was forcibly TAX
en- TO the headquarters of the Mine own
ers' Association and his resignation was
demanded. At first he refused TO re-
sign, but when finally coil OF rope was
thrown at his feet he weakened and sign
ed the resignation which had been pro-
vided for him.
The sentiment of the mine owners,qas
voiced by c. c. Hamlin, secretary of the
association, is that all union miners must
be driven out of the camp. His declarfl-
ton that the time had come TO purge
the district" started the rioting at the
mass meeting in Victor called to discuss
the dynamite outrage at Independence,
which resulted in the killing of Roxie
MCGEE, a non-union miner, and the
wc6nding of six other persons. one of
whom, John Davis, also non-union
miner. died a few hours later. The first
shot was fired by some one in the crowd.
This was followed Immediately ny two
rife shots from the windows of miners
union hall Sheriff Bell called on the
local company OF the State guard, COM
manded by Capt Harry g. Moore, TO as
sist in preserving order and in arrest;ng
the men in the union hall. Soldiers were
stationed on the roof of the building OPP
pcsite the hall and from this point of
vantage, fired into the doors and win
dows of the hall. A scattering fire was
kept up by both sides for twenty min
utes, at the end of which time the min
ers surrendered. Two men were killed
and eight wounded in the rioting
The city marshals of Anaconda, Gold
field and Independence are among the
prisoners held by the authorities. To
getheI with the city marshal Of Victor
AMI the sheriff of Teller County, this
makes a total of FIVE officials of the gold
camp towns who have been deposed
since the troubles of Monday began.