The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-06-17
A PITCHED BATTLE
HAS Been FOUGHT
Military Forces and the Union
Miners Clash Near DunnvilIe,
a New Camp.
WAS ONLY ONE FATALITY
'oorps, However, Easily Rounded Up
the Opposing Force and Succeeded
in Taking Fourteen
Prisoners.

Victor, Colo, June 10.--A pitched bat
Tie between the military and union min.
eis was fought at Dunville, the new
mining camp, thirteen miles out of Vic
tor
John Carley, union miner, was
killed.
The troops returned to Victor bring
ing with them fourteen captives.
1t was reported before the special
train left for Victor at 2 o'clock bear
ing the force under General Bell, that
the miners in the hills about Dunnville,
numbered about $50 men, and that it.
was their intention to march into Vic
tor in body and attempt to liberate
by force the inmates of the temporary.
bull pen in Victor.
That the force actually consisted Of
hnt tWenty-one men is the statement of
those who were taken captives.
The train proceeded to the immediate
vicinity Of Dunnvlle without unusual
Incident. When about a quarter of a
mile distant from the Dunnvile tenn
porary station the officers could see the
camp OF the miners. 1t included one
cabin and six or seven tents.
Officers Were Fired on.
The officers left the train at the COM
man of General Bell, and prepared to
advance on the camp Of the unionists in
regular skirmish order AS they emery
ed from the cut in which the train had
come to a stop they We're greeted by
a Volley of shots which came from
points of vantage surrounding the hills.
The deputies returned the fire to the
best advantage possible, and promiscu-
Oh 1,,<r .1,,l-
rod Of ten minutes
From the character of the shooting
from the hill General Bell Immediately
recognized that the strength of the min
ers had been greately overestimated,
and that he had sufficient force under
his command to make an immediate
roundup and capture the entire opposing
force. Accordingly he divided the dep
uties and soldiers into seven detach-
'nents, and these set out to make a COM
Liete cleanup Of the surrounding hill.
List Of Prisoners.
The following We're taken prisoners,
several being released later:
Harry Boaz.
John James, Goldfied.
II. w. Moore, Victor.
H. Lang.
Ed L. Skinner Cater released>.
Dick James.
Roy Cavanaugh.
John Duffy.
Charles Hard.
James Hard.
Fred keefe, Cripple Creek.
A. D. Hemenway.
A. D. French and
c. Force, all Of the Cripple Creek
l:nion.
Fred Middleton of Anaconda and H.
w. and w. S. Hidler were arrested and
later released.
Growth Of New Camp.
Cripple Creek, Colo. June 1O.-Dunn-
Vile sprang into prominence last week
when 1t was reported that enormous
amounts of free gold had been llscov-
cred, and there was an immediate rush
70 the place by union men, who de-
clared that no others would be per-
lnttted In the camp. All others were
barred, but the camp was of mush-
room growth and the thousands who
encamped there in the first two days
Of its existence dwindled away fifty or
a hundred day.
General Bell has expressed the opin-
ion that the camp was nothing but a
decoy, and would be used by the min
ers as base of operations.
Dunnville is about twenty miles
south of here and it is said to be in
Fremont county, which has not been
declared by the governor to be in a
state Of instruction and rebellion.
a second battle has just taken place.
Seven soldiers sent on horseback to
Big Hill, two miles east of Victor, to
arrest union miners found them en-
trenched. The men refused to sur
render and the soldiers opened fire.
Over 200 shots were fired
The miners opened fire on the SOL
d!ers rs soon as they saw them COM
ms ~. the hill. No one was wounded.
s5cvc'. men We're captured by the
guards and taken to Cripple Creek.
Intense excitement again reigns here