The copper era., 1906-06-07
From Forty to Fifty People
Killed.
MEXICAN OFFICERS AND RURALES
ASSISTED BY AMERICANS, PUT
DOWN RIOTERS.
Governor YSibeI Arrives Peace Restored
Plant and Mines Operating
as UsuaI-Much Property
Destroyed.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.

The cause of the trouble as given
by the dispatches from Cananea, had
been of long standing.
The Mexican policemen had been
extremely offensive and tyranneous to
Americans for nearly a year past and
during the past six months more
than ten Americans had been shot
and wounded by the Mexican police.
The bad feeling between the two
peoples eliminated a few days ago
when the policemen killed an Ameri-
can saloonkeeper apparently without
cause or provocation.
American socialist agitators ar.
rived in Cananea some months ago
and began to propagate their doc
trines among the Mexicans and
urged them to form a miners union.
This resulted in the Mexican miners
making demands on the management
of the Greene Consolidated company,
which Colonel Greene declined to
grant.
The Mexican miners have been re-
ceiving $3.50 Mexican money, per
day and working ten hours a day.
| They made demand for So Mexican
and eight hours of daily labor,
and the employment of 80 per cent.
of Mexicans in the Greene enter
prises, half the bosses also to be
Mexicans. When these demands
were declined d strike was ordered
and it was inaugurated Friday morn
ing.
The Mexican miners backed up by
local agitators and some of the
police force, became ugly. They
paraded the streets, armed, and
threatening to kill all Americans.
Colonel Greene in an automobile,
drove over the town and made
speeches to the rioters wherever they
assembled, advising them to keep the
peace and return to their work.
They jeered at him and were very
offensive and threating. Late in the
day they marched to what was known
as the Mesa lumber yard and set it
on fire. George Metcalf, the man.
ager, attempted to save the property
and was assisted by his nephew, Will
liam Metcalf. Both were fired upon
by the rioters and killed and the
immense yards burned.
General Manager Dwight rushed to
the scene and was fired upon and hit
by bullet, but not seriously wound
cd 10 il fa1I &r
Colonel Greene's house, the mob fol-
lowing.
The American miners and smelter
men were Immediately ordered to
give up work and prepare to defend
life and property.
Colonel Greene and General Man
ager Dwight established headquar-
ters in Colonel Greene's house, which
was barricaded and defended by
force of armed Americans. No at
tempt was made to storm the house.
In the evening as the mob became
drunk and more menacing, special
train was fitted.up and nearly all the
American women and children were
rushed off to Naco, where they ar
rived in time and are being cared for
there and at Douglas and Bisbee.
The rioters made several attempts
to storm the storerooms of the
Greene Consolidated company for the
purpose of capturing dynamite to
blow up buildings. They were fired
upon by Americans, and several
killed.
1t was a wild night in Cananea.
The American population protected
life and property and fought the
rioters until early Saturday morn
ing. -Colone; Kosterlinsky with a
band of Rurales was the first aid to
the camp.
The following report written on
the day following the riot by w. B.