The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-14
Ninety-0ne Union Miners
Are Abandoned.
KANSAS GATES SHUT
Near the Border of the Two States the
Unhappy Men are Left. But for
the Salvation Army They
Would Lack for
Bread.
(By the Associated Press. }

Denver, Colo, June IA special
to the Post from Holly. Colo. says:
With a parting Yolley of rifle bull
lets fired over their heads by the
militia and deputies to warn them to
hurry eastward as fast as their legs
could carry them and never to set
foot on Colorado soil, ninety-o one
union miners from the Cripple Creek
district were unloaded from a special
Santa Fe train on the prairie today
one-half mile from the Colorado
Kansas State line and left to shift for
themselves.
When the special train bearing the
deported men was within half a mile
of the Kansas line it was stopped by
Sheriff Brady, of Hamilton county,
and forty deputies, who notified Lieu
tenant Cole that under no circum-
stances would the train be allowed to
cross the Kansas line and. further,
that the deported men were not want
ed in Kansas. Lieutenant Cole assured
the sheriff that the train would pro-
coed no further. Then the order to
quit the train was given in hurry.
Sheriff Brady called for the leaders
of the unionistS and notified them that
they must not cross the Kansas line.
The exiles were disembarked in
haste and without ceremony.
Hurry up, there, you fellows.
cried Lieutenant Cole, when the train
stopped in the midst of alkali sand
dunes that dot the prairie near the
Kansas line. I'VE haven't got any
time to waste out here"
The special train had no sooner
come to a standstll when the car doors
were unlocked and then thrown open
and the order given by Lieutenant
| Cole for the exiles to leave the train.
Without Food or Water.
"Step lively, you fellow. Step live
~" admonished Deputy Benton who
| was in command of the civil force of
| the expedition, and in less time than
| it takes to tell it the three cars were
emptied of their unfortunate and UNI
| willing passengers and had started
back to La Junta. s
The men were left on the prairie
without food or water. for the SOL
diers and deputies, in their haste TO
get home, had forgotten to unload
! the small stock of commissary sup
| plies the train carried when it left
Victor The exiles were cherries in
| deed Without even light 1ld miles
| from the nearest habitation, they mud
died together in groups on either
side of the Santa Fe track ana dls-
cussed their plight. Sheriff JACK
Brady and his deputies were on hand
| to prevent the deported men from re-
| naming in Kansas Warned by the
| Kansas authorities that they would not
| be allowed to seek refuge in the State,
| the spirit of the men broke. Many
of them finally walked back on the
railroad track to Holly, where they
we're furnished food by the big Sal
walton Army station there.
Statement by Bell.
Cripple Creek, Colo, June 11.-Gen-
nral Sherman Bell made the following
| statement for publications:
| have indisputable evidence when
will lead the conviction of a num-
| Der of union men for the murder OF
non-union miners who were killed 1T
| the independence depot explosion. we
have between 35 and 40 men in the
| bull pen who will swing for this
crime. We are only waiting to cap
ture two or three more men before
| we tell what our evidence is