Arizona republican., 1906-06-02
RAGE RIOT
 AT CANANEA
Carnage and Fire in
 Greene'S Camp
It is Estimated That More Than Fifty Have Been KiIled---COI. Greene Besieged.

Naco. Ariz.. June 1.-Forty- five Americans were killed today at Canan- ca. Mexico. forty miles south of here. where is located the great copper camp of W. C. Greene. The camp is on fire and it. is reported that the Mexicans are using dynamite in blow ing up the great smelters and mills owned by the Greene company. TT trouble arose at Cananea over th demand of these Mexicans for an in crease in wages from S3.5O to s5- pc. day. Parties who left there at 1:3C this afternoon said Col Greene was addressing practically the entire DOT ulation of the camp in an effort to pac- fly the excited Mexicans. Between and o'clock however. the. Mexicans fired upon the Amercians and so forty to fifty were killed.
 Col. Greene wired to Bisbee for all the armed men that could be sent for the protection of the Americans their property at Cananea. The popu lation of Cananea is 22,OO0 of which five thousand are Americans. The fam | fly of Col. Greene arrived here this af- ternoon but the colonel remains with his property while two trains loaded
 
 from Cananea and will go on to Bisbee. 1 Governor Ysabel of Sonora is hur- rying here from HermosiIlo the cap ] ital of the state, and will be met by a Bisbee force who will accompany him i to Cananea. There has been bad blood at Cananea for some time and only a
 month ago the home of the superin- ] tendent was dynamited by unknown i parties. Yesterday one of the police men of the city was killed by an Amer ! ican in a personal quarrel
 l Tom Rynning of the Arizona Rang CTS. arrived here at o'clock from i Douglas with a posse Of his men. All ! the arms obtainable in Bisbee, Doug
 las and Naco are now in the hands of
 picked men who are ready to go to . Cananea. It is believed that the Mex
 ican officials at Cananea are doing all l they can to save life and property.
 There is great excitement in all
 towns along the border. as hundreds
 have relatives and friends in Cananea
 At I1:3O o'clock tonight a trainload Of ; refugees arrived here from Cananea
 and they confirm stories received early
 in the evening. It is known that al
 least a dozen Americans have been killed and fully fifty MeXicans. George | 9Ietcalf who had charge of the large ! lumber business of the Greene com pany, was one of the first men to be ! killed. The Mexican Iaborers had ] been gathering in a crowd during the forenoon, and this afternoon about hf-
 teen hundred Mexicans started iron
 the Sonora hotel to the lumber yard. Here Metcalf met the crowd with a rife in his hands. The Mexicans closed
 in on him. wrenched the gun from him a H,s. l Metcalf a nephew. rushed to rescue his uncle, when he was shot by a Mex 1 ican. Three Mexicans were killed a, the lumber yard.
 1 After killing the two Metcalfs, the ! Mexicans rushed into the lumber yard and started a fire, which caused the destruction of property valued al | $250,000. The general office of the i Greene company was also burned. Af- ! ter leaving the lumber yard the Mex i jeans dynamited a power shop near the
 Sonora hotel. for the purpose of secur- i ing arms and ammunition. Here the
 Mexican police attacked the mob and a
 fierce battle ensued several officers and
 a dozen strikers being killed.
 A train carrying 100 men left to- night for Cananea. Twenty-Five armed
 men came down from Bisbee and are [ D has been fighting between this party | and the Mexican custom officials. The l posse of twenty-five from Bisbee start i ed to cross the line a half mile below i NacO where they were fired upon by ] Mexicans who were in ambush. One ] man. named Buckner. was shot through 1 the arm, and several are missing. Shots
 are heard. and it is feared that others may he killed.
 United States Consul Galbraith wired 1 to the state department at Washington | that his life and that of all Americans | in the camp are in danger. Colonel i Greene has telephOned for every avail able armed man that can be secured al | Bisbee and Douglas. The colonel this | afternoon rode down the crowded ! streets in an automobile and told the
 men that he could not accede--to theit
 demands When the last train left
 Cananea, Greene's residence was being barricaded.