The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-06-16
MINERS DEP0RTED
Kansas Refuses to Harbor
Men From Colorado.
TURNED BACK BY SHERIFF
General Bell Says He Has Evidence
Sufficient to Hang Forty Miners
Who Were Connected with
the Victor Outrage.


seyenty-six deported Victor, ColoD
miners sent out from their state on
special train in charge OF COLORADO
millriamen were literally dumped into
Karsas Saturday and left destitute ON
the prairie.
With a parting volley fired into the
air. the militiamen deserted their
charges and returned west. Later the
unfortunate miners were turned back
| TO Colorado by an armed Kansas sher-
| iff and forty deputies.
The miners had been placed on the
train, which was a special made UP
by the authorities in control Of the dis
turbed Colorado district and in charge
Of well armed militiamen started for
the east Friday. The cars were close
| " guarded. The miners were not per-
mitted to leave the cars, nor were any
of the hundred or so men who gath
cred at the station allowed to com
municate with them.
When a point in, Kansas, half q
mile east of the Colorado state line,
was reached early Saturday morning, a
halt was made. 1t was deserted spot
on the wild prairie, with not railway
station, eating house, nor farmers
house within several miles. Without
DELAY the men were disembarked, lne
engine was reversed and the militia
men reboarded the train. Colonel T.
w. Kennedy, the officer in command OF
the guard, instructed the miners plain
ly that they were not wanted in Colo
RADIO and told them they had better go
| east. Half a dozen of the solliers
fred a volley into the air to intimidate
the men and the train started west.
While the miners were deciding on
what they would do, Sheriff John Bra
dy, of Hamilton county, Kansas, and
forty armed deputies arrived on the
scene and ordered the men back to-
! Colorado. Three of the miners had
already started east afoot. The others
retraced their steps at the command
of the Kansas officers, along the rail
road track westward! After a. long,
weary tramp, they struggled into Hol'
ly, Colo, a small town near the Colo
rado. Kansas line, where they were far
nished food at the big Salvation Army
station located there 3
Many Miners to Be Hung. g
At Cripple Creek, Colo, Saturday,
General Bell made the following state
ment for publications:
81 have indisputable evidence in my
possession which will lead to the con-
viction of number of union men for
the murder of non union miners who
were killed in the independence depot
explosion. We have between thirty
five and forty men in the bull pen who
will swing for this crime. We are
only waiting to capture two or three
more before We tell what our evidence
is" size.
Miners Welcome to Kansas.
At st. Louis dispatch says: Cover
nor W. J. Bailey, of Kansas, was seen
at the worlds fair grounds and il.
formed by the Associated Press that
ninety-one union miners had been de-
ported from the Cripple Creek dis
trict and unloaded on the Kansas
state line outside of Kansas. In view
of the fact that official communica-
ton relative to the matter had not
yet been received by him, Governor
Bailey made no statement of what
might be done in the matter, but gave
the assurance that so long as the min
ers were peaceable and la.w-abiding,
they will not come to harm in Kan
sas. The governor said:
81 have not been officially informed
relative to the action of the Colorado
authorities. However, I may say that
if the miners behave themselves they
will not be molested. If they .orm
into an armed mob they will be treat
ed as an armed mob. If they act as
peaceable citizens they will be treat
ed as such. And to all law-abiding
citizens the state of Kansas offers a
safe shelter"