Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-06
Wa, Standing on Platform at the
independence Station Near
Cripple Creek
WE'RE KILLED WITH DYNAMITE.
Oh, Assasslns Had Placed Three Hun
dred Pounds There on
Purpose.
EXPLODED AS TRAIN DREW NEAR

y,.,ims We're Non. Union Miners
When Whistle Sounded Internal
Machine Set OF.
o.,orio creek, Colo June Gone OF
s m,ost dlobolical deeds in the black
,ora N crime which forms part oil
~ mining history OF this state was
.mrl,ted when by means OF an IN
1rnol machine II men were killed out
IA, and nine others terribly injured
mo If thcm fatally at independence
,ly ,oday All those killed ana IN
MIX wore uon-unIon miners, employed
NV ,bc night shift Of the Findley nine
mo men had quit work and were walt
rg for the suburban train on the Flor
,nce and cripple Creek railroad to take
,hem to their homes in cripple creek
ord victor When the locomotive was
,,ihln 100 feet Of the depot "A charge OF
dynamite. estimated at 800 pounds, was
sst Of underneath the platform on
which the men were standing by pull
,ng A wire at the Delmonico mine, 400
ne away The result was terrible
Heads hands, legs arms and the
tpnks of the bodies of the men were
scattered all around. Blood covered
,yeythmg. The depot platform was
spnered and the front and end OF the
DEPOT was demolished,
The following Is a list Of the dead
now Identified
DEAD
Alex Mclean.
William Shanklin,
j. p Hartsock
Gus Augustine,
Arthur Michaelsen.
william Delano,
2, j. Johnson.
Henry J. Hang
Herbert Mccoy.
Charles Z Barber
THE INJURED
John II. St. clair.
Philip Chandler
j. A, Becker,
John Police.
Clarence Allen.
John Garyty.
Edward Holland.
The injured We're taken TO the Victor
hospitals and the mangled bodies Of
the dead, patched together as well as
POSSIBLE were removed to the coroner S
Office at Victor
meeting Of the Mine owners assoc
citation has been called Rewards ag-
gegatlng many thousands Of dollars
Will be offered for the apprehension Of
The criminals and Gov. Peabody Will
be petItioned to send troops to the
district
Cripple Creek, Colo, June 6.--Three
hundred pounds Of dynamite placed by
unknown assassins at the Independence
station Of the Florence & Cripple Creek
railroad was exploded at e.26 o'clock
this morning while % n0n-union min
ers employed at the lNindley mine, To-
Gated on Bull Hill, were standing upon
ihe platform, instantly killing 10 Of
them and fatally injuring eight or ten
others.
The mine was discharged by n man
concealed In the shaft house of the Del
nonico mine.
THE EXPLODING MACHINE.
Sheriff Robertson and a detective
loIce nave found the machine which set
on the dynamite, II consists OF re-
NoNer ana 300 feet Of steel wire. The
Ie'olNer was placed underneath the
phuorm close to the powder one end
ol he wire was fastened to a chair LEG
Nhlch was used as a lever from the
DeImonleo property
ON THE DEPOT PLATFORM.
The men employed on the night shift
tl inc FWdley mine who had lust I'm
Mhed work had gathered ON tho depot
i",otll TO board a train and return
WV, MONIES when the explosion oc-
tn o'tvu uen'ath their feet, hurting then
S,eIs direction destroying the dopo'
"'9 IenulnE great hole In the earth.
,nn. special tfaln carrying physicians
Gse, detectives, mine owners ant
e' persons was dispatched FROM thi,
NV as soon as possible after news o
NV eAplosion was received and arrived
huepeh dehce, six miles distant a
avr oclorM Sheriff Robertson an,
osles oW'ors Immediately began /,
,a,elul search for clues TO the perpe
traitors OF the outrage.
STRIKE STILL IN EFFECT.
Although the strike of union minors
" ,ne cripple Creek district which be
sau aug TO- 1903. and which led TO IN,
loh OF martial law I'm TelIe
too, 'y py Gov. Peabody, is stlll I'm ef
,o sooa order having been main
w n'u,,uu lor the past six months and Nh
s rule has been suspended an
s uoops withdrawn. The mine own
80 WIN the exception of the Portlan,
.vupany' claim TO have as MANY mo,
AN Mug as they need and they reauir
lUllefS to renouncs nlIa
49, 49, 10 the Western Federation
sonn giving them employment
~, ',nl'leo appointed by the conventiot
s ine western Federation. now 4
i,slon az Denver to INVESTIGATES IN
'""uau9h In this district. visited IN
np last week Charles III Novo,
slueut OF the Federation h In hi
~, ltlnrlde which Is under martia
h,"' cuelhg held as a military prisone
Ia N9V' Peabody, who charges nj,
lo,, ln,ilng Instruction and rebel
rsa le.uride is I'M southwestern COLI
NV Nv ana is about 400 miles from Crlf
iiero,v'N' The strikes IN the metal
"a bv M ulnes OF Colorado We're order
ern W. executive board OF the West
bose oego'Vatlon OF miners. for tho pun
mm, W. cutting or the ore supply {
ko1r lug snleltors at which an eight
1Hs E Ely was refused to the employee
csy,to,nn oley mine IS controlled by A. Y
"0N president Of the First M