The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-07
ANARCHY REIGNS IN
CENTENNIAL STATE
Fighting in the Streets of Victor and Many Citi-
zenS Slain
Internal Machine Exploded Under NOnniOn Miners at nde-
pendenCe Station Thirteen Men Killed and Others
Horribly HangIed

( Z. IA, Johnson. formerly Of Little
F Horse, Wyo.
5 Robert Sinclair.
Injured
Phil Chandler.
! j. A. BROKER.
Edward Holland
john Police.
! Tom Sinclair.
Dan Gainey.
/ Clarence Alleu.
/ John Collite. both legs amputated.
ia Holland. right leg amputated
/ Dan Carney. right leg amputated.
/ a. II. Allen, both legs fractured.
Several VIII Die.
J AmpuLatiou has been performed upon
/ a number of the wounded, but il is al
! most certain that several Of them viii
die.
4 A majority Of the dead and injured
/ We're single men, but several had
/ families living i'm the district.
Charles Rector of the SturtlOff mine,
I escaped by a miracle. He was chatting
Z with several men, unconscious of
danger when the explosion occurred.
/ lie saw a number of men rushing to-
ward the depot and at this moment
he was lifted from his feet and was
I dea1ened by a terrific crash. When be
realized what had occurred he was sur
prised TO find himself uninjured
Story Of Eye Witness.
IT. ". Vanatta, one of tie FindIey
miners who had a remarkable escape
said:
The earth seemed to heave under
the platform and depot and the noise
made was deafening We had been at
Jhe station about two minutes when
the explosion occurred. I was thrown
through the air about seventy-fve
feet. There were about TWENTY-FIVE
men on the platform and most of them
were non-uniOn miners who worked on
the E'indley. The ShurtloH shift had
not yet reached the depot but was
hurrying down the hill. Had these men
reached the platform the casualty list
would have been doubled, There must
have been 300 pounds Of powder used.
ana IL must have been set OF Dy az
electric spark or revolver, as the min
ers would have smeAed the fuse if one
had been used"
George Remick was hurled many
feet from the platform, but escaped /
with only few bruises, although /
heavy timbers and rocks fell all about /
him.
Internal Machine.
The Internal machine with which the
diabolical work was done consisted of
a quantity of dynamite estimated at
$50 TO 300 pounds a loaded revolver
and a long slender steel wire attached
10 the trigger. The revolver was fast
ened so that the pulling OF the trigger
would not draw it away. The wire ran
from under the depot TO the cribbing
of the Delmouico property. about 800
feet away, where its end was fastened
TO the rung of a chair. The dynamite
was placed close to the muzzle Of the
revolver which was discharged by pull /.
ing the wire when the engineer blew /
his whistle The bah from the re- I
volver exploded the dynamite
A man was seen running down the 4
hin from the Delmouico after the ex-
pl0sion The Victor troops. who were /
ordered out by Mayor French, were 50 /
stationed as 10 keep people from pass /
ing over the path taken by this man
and bl0OdhOunds were sent from Can 4
ou CITY and Trinidad for the purpose I
of trailing the assassin.
The Internal machine used today was
similar To the one exploded In the Vim .
dicator on Nov. p. 1903, killing two :
An Accident"
BY order Of Major H. A. Naylor Of /
the national guard the bodies were re-
to another uudeTtakers This action
vas taken on request of j. s. Murphy
superintendent OF the Findley mine
because. IL was alleged that Coroner
James D0rau had remarked before the
discovery of the Internal machine that
the death of the men was due TO an
accident. Later Coroner DOran ex-
planned that although 1-e had spoken
of the disaster as an awful accident"
he was convinced that terrible crime
had been committed
sheri6 Resigns.
Without explanation and With a sud
deuuess that has caused great surprise.
Sheriff Henry IT. Robertson this after
noon resigned his position and Edward
Bell was named 90 succeed him by
the county commissioners. Bell is
member of the Citizens alliance.
CITY Marshal O'COunOr OF Victor has
sworn in a large number OF special
policemen, who are paroifng the
streets with shotguns.
Mauy union men have armed them
selves and say they wiz resist with viO-
lence any attempt TO run them out Of
town, as is proposed Detectives have
been engaged To shadow the move
ments OF every prominent union leader
iu the camp.
Threats Of Lynching
Clarence Hamliu of the Mine own
rrS association has arrived al Victor
and has taken charge Of affairs over
there he declared this afternoon that
The men who are responsible for The
Independence outrage should be hanged
from telephone pole and that hc
would be only too glad 10 help pun the
rope If the WUrderers c0ulG be disCov-
cred end captured
A squad of soldiers under the COM
maDd of Major II. A. Naylor this after
noon noticed an hardware and gun
stores in Victor not TO sell any fire.
arms or ammunition without q permit