Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-06-09

= red pounds OF dynamite placed as .
mine by unknown assassfns under th,
depot OF the Florence & Cripple Greek
Railroad exploded AT 2 O'Clock this
morning while twenty-five nou-upion
miners employed at Findley mine. 10.
Gated ON Bull lIiil. We're standing on
The platform, instantly killing fifteen
OF them aud fatally injuring eight or
ten others
The mine was discharged by elec-
iriclty, and the man who discharged
II was concealed in the shafthouse oil
the Delmonico mine The deadly wire
has been traced to this building. and
the flend used piece of chair leg
with which to pull the wire.
As soon as the news was received
here Go. l.. c. n. c., was ordered out
and relief train sent from Cripple
Creek carrying doctors. nurses. police
officers, detectives, mine owners, news
paper men and others to the scene of
the terrible crime. This train arrived
at Independence at 4 o'clock and i'm
mediately began the work of remov-
ing the dead and injured. The scene
about the depot is horrible in the ex.
trcme. Portions of human bodies are
scattered all over the right of way of
the railroad, and in the twenty-foot
hole made by the explosion are sew
eral skulls, arms legs and hands.
Every object within a radius of fifty
feet from the hole is bespattered with
blood. The sight is sickenlng and beg
Gars description.
Fifteen We're killed instantly and
several others were badly injured
The mine was discharged by elec-
tricity conveyed by a wire which ran
into the shafthouse of the Delmonico,
some unknown fiend using a chair leg
with which to pull 1t. The scene about
the depot after the explosion was hor-
rible Portions of corpses were scat
tered all over the roadway, and in the
twenty-foot hole caused by the explo-
sion We're several bloody skulls, arms,
legs, hands, and portions of human
trunks. Everything within fifteen feet
was spattered with blood. AS soon
as the news was received company
of the state militia was ordered out
and a relief train went from here car
Ives mine owners and others.
a partial list OF the dead
GUS AUGUSTINE,
ArSHUR MUHLISON,
R,,sRY HAAG.
FLICK McLAIN,
CHAS BARBER.
HERBERT Mccoy.
There seems 10 be no doubt but that
the explosion is The result of a deep
laid plot The murderers evidently
did not wish 10 kill or injure any of
the crew in charge of the train which
the Inflated miners intended taking
for their homes in Victor and Grip
pie Creek The train started from
Alta Vista and picked mp men on vari-
GUS O'Clock shifts who were return
Ing home When within rs feet of
the depot al Independence the engine
the whistle was a death signal. for no
men 10 get aboard and to warn any
lageers TO make haste The sound OF
the whistle was a death signel, for no
sooner had 1t sounded All the early
morning stiffness of the mountain air
than a muilled roar was heard and
nearly two score of human beings
f2ere hurled into eternity The ex-
ploslun was terrific. and the mountain
rocked as if by an earthquake.
The known dead now are:
IL. j. HAGG. single;
j. IL. HARIIELL, single
ALEX. McLEEN, married;
GUS AUGUSTINE. single.
w. w McLANE, single;
Ell. ROSS. single;
ARTHUR BUHLEINSTIEN, single +;
HERBERT Mccoy, single;
CHAS Il. BARBER, single:
WILLIAM SHANKLlN. single:
T.. KEl.SE, married
Among the injured are
John Police, single;
Ed Holland. single; will die.
A vigilance company is at present
being organized In the armory. The
mines all closed at noon. and II Is be-
lieved that bloody retribution will be
the result OF the diabolical act Supt.
Murphy of the Findlay mines de.
manded the bodies from the coroner
who refused. They were finally taken
to Hunts undertaking establishment
The murderer undou.4tedly did not
wish to iniure the crew aboard the
train. for when the engine sounded its
whistle. seventy-five feet away from
the station The mine was sprung. The
train stopped promptly.
The Findlay mine is controlled by
A. H. Carlton. president of the First
National Bank. prominent in the Grip
pie Creek Mine Owners Association