The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-06-07
The Situation In Colorado
Gold Fields Leads to
War.
A HORRIBLE OUTBREAK
A Dozen Non-UniOn Miners Killed
by Deliberate Explosion OF an
Internal Machine.
Soldiers Called Out and Many Union
Miners Are Killed In
Charge.


men were killed by the explosion of an
Internal machine at the railroad sta
ton in Independence and seven others
were seriously injured. Eleven men
were killed outright and one died later
from wounds. All the killed and in
jured with the execution of two men
from the Deadwood mine, were non
union miners employed on the night
shift of the Findley mine. The men
were waiting to board a suburban
train on the Florence and Cripple
Creek railroad and return to their
homes in Cripple Creek and Victor.
Just after the engineer of the ap-
preaching train blew his whistle as
signal to the miners, according to Gus
tom, a terrific explosion occurred I'M
derneath the station platform, on and
near which twenty-six men were gath
cred. The platform was blown into
splinters, the station was wrecked and
hole twenty feet in circumference
and about as many feet in depth was
torn in the ground. Fragments OF bod
les were hurled through space for sew
eral hundred feet and later were
picked up still C,livering.
Some of the bodies dropped into the
pit made by the explosion, but heads,
hands, ears. legs. arms and trunks
were strewn about on all s'dos. Pieces
of flesh were found on buildings SOC
feet away and blood stains everywhere
within a radius of fifty feet. A special
train was sent from Cripple Creek car
rying physicians, nurses, officers and
many others, but when it reached indie
pendence the injured had already been
placed on board the suburban train and
removed to the hospital in Victor. The
mangled bodies of The dead, pieced to-
gether as well as possible, were re-
moved 20 the coroner's office.
The Internal machine with which
the diabolcal work was done consist
ed of a quantity Of dynamite, estimat-
ed at 100 to 200 pounds, a loaded re-
volver and a long slender steel wire
attached to the trigger The revolver
was fastened SO that the pulling Of the
trigger would not draw it away. The
wire ran from under the station to the
cribbing Of the DelmonicO property,
about 400 feet away, where it's end was
fastened to a rung of a chair. The
dynamite was placed close to the muz-
zle of the revolver, which was dis
charged by pulling the wire when the
engineer blew his whistle The ball
from the revolver exploded the dyna
mite.
A man was seen running down the
hill from the DelmonicO after the
explosion. The Victor troops. who
were ordered out by Mayor French
were SO stationed as to keep people
from passing over the path taken by
this man, and blood-hounds were sen
from Canyon City and Trinidad for the
A purpose of trailing the assassin.
Il The internal machine was similar tt
II the one exploded in the Vindicato
n mine on Nov 21 1903, killing two men
Il Without explanation and with sud
j denness that caused great surprise
Sheriff Henry NJ. Robertson resigne'
his position and Edward Bell wa
named to succeed him by the count
commissioners. Bell is a member O
the Citizens Alliance. City Marsha
O'Connell of Victor has sworn in
large number Of special policemen
who are patrolling the streets wit
shOtguns. Many union men hav
armed themselves and say they wi
u resist with violence any attempt to ru
- them out of town, as is proposed. d.
tectjves have been engaged to shade
q the movements of every prOminer
:. union leader in the camp. Clarenc
10 Hamlin of the Mine Owners associ
= ton has arrived at Victor and hs
-. taken charge Of affairs there. He d
~ clared this afternoon that the men WI
~ are responsible for the Independent
{" outrage should be hanged from a tel
DO phone pole, and that he would be on
4 too glad to help pull the rope if tt
murderers could be discovered al