Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-10
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They will be escorted to the county lines,
and warned never again to return to
Teller county. The union men also are
well armed, and say they will resist any
attempt at deportation. Many of them
are desperate, and serious trouble is Ii
able to occur.
Vigilance Committee in Charge.
A thoroughly-organized vigilance
committee composed OF mine owners and
their employees and sympathizers has
taken charge of the government of
Teller county and large squads of armed
men are patroling the district. These
men are ostensibly acting under orders
Of Edward Bell, the new sheriff, who is a
large property owner and an outspoken
opponent of the miners union. Sheriff
Henry NJ. Robertson resigned under
compulsion. He was forcibly taken to
the headquarters of the Mine Owners
association and his resignation was de-
manded. At first he refused to resign,
but when finally coil of rope was
thrown at his feet he weakened and
signed the resignation which had been
provided for him.
The first act of Sheriff Bell was to take
away the star of Under Sheriff ]. Knox
Burton. Then he appointed 25 deputies
to which force large additions have since
been made, and later he disarmed the
union officers who had been appointed
by City Marshal Michael O'Connell, of
Victor. Meantime O'Connell had visited
the mine owners headquarters in which
about 30 armed men were assembled and
demanded that they surrender their
arms to him. He was forcib1y elected
and after being deposed from Office by
Mayor French he was placed under ar
rest. Many Of the other regularly
chosen peace officers of the various
towns in the district also have been de-
posed and some of them locked up with
about 200 union miners, who were ar
rested after the rioting in Victor.
Cause Of Rioting.
The sentiment of the mine owners, as
voiced by G. c. Hamlin, secretary of the
association, is that all union miners
must be driven out of the camp. His
declaration 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 Inde-
pendence.
'It'sup to you to drive these scoundrels
out" Hamlin had declared, whereupon
Alfred Miller, union man who had been
sworn in as deputy sheriff, raised his rifle
and inquired: Whom are you re-
ferring to-" Miller's rifle was seized
and the shooting began which resulted
in the killing of Roxie MCGEE, a nom
union miner, and the wounding of six
other persons, one of whom, John
Davis, also a non-union miner, died
few hours later. The first shot was
fired by some one in the crowd This
was followed Immediately by two rifle
shots from windows of miners union
hall. A man standing in the door OF
the union store, it is said, also fired
into the crowd with a repeating shot
gun.
Sheriff Bell called on the local com.
pany of the state guard commanded
by Capt. Harry G. Moore, to assist il
preserving order and in arresting the
men in the union hall. Soldiers were
stationed on the roof of the buildin,
opposite the hall and from this poin
of vantage fired into the door and win
dows of the hall. A scattering fir.
was kept up by both sides for 20 min
utes at the end of which the miner:
surrendered. Only three wounded men
Calderwood Parker and McKelyey
were found in the hall and there wer'
no casualties in the attacking party
The uninjured men in the hall, 40 il
number, were all placed under ares