The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-07


housen. Z. H Johnson. Alex. Mclean,
John Kelso. James Harrison, w. W.
Delno. Ed Ross. Herbert Mccoy. Robert
Sinclair.
Injured: c. C. Allen. Phil Chandler.
John Police. J. A. Brook. Ed Holland,
Daniel Garvey.
Killed at mass meeting: Roxie Nc
Gee. John Davis.
Wounded at mass meeting: ]. a. Reed,
Joe Findley. Fire Chief Murphy. Peter
Christian, Fred Studebauch.
Wounded in Union Hall: Peter Cald-
erwood, Arthur Parker, James Nc
Kelvey, all union miners.
Events of Yesterday.
Beginning when an Internal machine.
set under the platform at the Findley
Mine Station. in independence, on the
line Of the Florence and Cripple Creek
Railroad. was touched OF. and a num-
Der of non-union men who were wait
ing for a train were killed and others
horribly mangled, events have followed
| thick and fast. They eliminated in a
riot at a mass meeting. where bullets
few and at least two were killed and
twenty injured.
Latea a company OF military was
suing their search for union miners.
when they were fired upon. The soldiers
stormed the buildings whence the shots
came and four unionists were shot. The
remainder fed precipitately.
Fleeing Men Caught.
The soldiers who were unhurt pursued
and arrested a number OF the fleeing
men and continued far into the night
to scour the country in search Of men
supposed to have been in Union Hall at
the time Of the assault.
AS the miners, both union and nom
union began to assemble after the riot,
the mine owners called a meeting in the
armory hall and sent for Sheriff Henry
NJ Robertson.
He was met by a committee composed
Of c. c. Hamlin, secretary of the as
sociation; J. s. Murphy, manager Of the
Findley Nine and L. +. Hill, Of The
resa, and fis resignation was demanded
He yielded to the demand. Then Ed
ward Bell was appointed by the coun-
ty commissioners TO fill out Robertson s
unexpired term. Robertson was a union
miner before he was elected sheriff
Bell is a member Of the Citizens ALI
ance.
Threaten Serious Fight.
Fully 100 supporters Of the associa-
ton gathered about the arInory where
It was meeting. At the same time / 900
men armed with all sorts of weapons
were assembling on the vacant ground
/ at the corner of Victor Avenue and
Fourth Street in response 10 n call for
mass meeting. Most OF those were
union men who declared their intention
10 resist TO the death any attempt TO
run them out Of the district
City Marshal Michael O'ConneH hur-
riedly swore in several hundred citizens.
most Of them union men. as deputy po-
licemen, after being refused admission
to the mine owners headquarters. After
a conference with Sheriff Bell and a
number Of mine owners, Mayor Frank
d. French removed City Marshal O'Con-
nell, who then dismissed his deputies
Wholesale Arrests Follow.
Major II. A Naylor was appointed
provisional marshal I'm place OF O'Con-
nell. who yielded. although he was
strongly urged by union miners to re-
sist Naylor then swore in all his mill
tiamen as deputy marshals and set out
to make wholesale arrests Of union
miners on the slightest information that
he could obtain.
Shortly after Marshal O'ConneH WAS
deposed troops arrested him and three
employees Of the Daily Record" " a union
newspaper. and locked them all in the
bull pen, which is rapidly filling with
union miners.
The anti-Union element seems TO be
in control Of the situation, and all union
men are under suspicion. Detectives are
watching the leaders.