The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-02
forty-five Killed by the
 MexicanS. 0UTRAGES AT COPPER MINES Shelters and Mills Blown Up by
 Dynamite. Colonel Greene Owner of Property Asks That United States Troops Re Rushed to Scene of De-
 struction.
0UTRAGES AT COPPER MINES

Naco. Ariz., June 1-Forty- five Amer leans were killed today at cananea, Mex. forty miles south of here. where is located the great copper camp of Col A C. Greene. The camp is on fire and 1t Is reported that the Mexi- cans are defying all authority. They are reported to be using dynamite in
 blowing up the great smeiters and
 mills owned by the Greene company The trouble arose at Cananea over
 the demand of the Mexicans for an in
 crease in wages from s35o to $5 per day. Parties who left there at go
 o'clock this afternoon said that Colonel
 Greene was addressing practically ths
 entire population of the camp in an effort to pacify the excited Mexicans. | However, between,4 and s o'clock this afternoon the Mexicans opened fire on
 the Americans and forty or more were | killed
 Colonel Greene wired at once to Ris- I bee for all the armed men that could
 be sent to protect the Americans and | their property at Cananea. The popu- | lation of cananea Is 23.00o. of which | 5000 arc Americans. The family of Colonel Greene arrived here this after I noon but the Colonel remained with | his property. Two trains loaded with l refugees are now en route here from Cananea and will go to Btebee. Governor Yzabei of Sonora is hurry l ing here from Hermosillo, the capital | of the State, and will be met here by | the Bisbee forces, who will accompany him to Cananea
 There has been bad blood at Cansnea | for some time. and only a month aga the home of the superintendent of l mines was dynamited by unknown par ties Yesterday one of the policemen of the city was killed by an American who claimed 1t was a personal griey- ance he had against the Mexican. Arizona Rangers Arrived. Capt Tom Rynning of the Arizona Rangers arrived here tonight frem Douglass with a posse of his men. n is believed that the Mexican officials at Cananea are doing all they can to savs life and property. There is great ex- citement in all the towns along the border, as hundreds have reletives and | friends in Cananea
 | At 11:30 o'clock a train load of refu. l gees arrived here from the scene of ] trouble and confirmed the stories re- I ceived earlier in the evening. | It Is known that as least q dozen | Americans have been killed and fully 1 fifty Mexicans.
 | George Metcalf. who was in charge
 of the large lumber business of tho
 
 men to be killed The Mexican labor CTS had been gathering In a great crowd during the forenoon and this af- ternoon about 1,5o0 of them started
 from the vicinity of the Sonora Hotel
 toward the lumber yard. On the way
 they stopped at a livery stable and
 tried to persuade, two Mexicans at work
 to join them but they refused and
 when the proprietor told them the sta
 ble was his individual property and
 was not connected with the mining conn
 pany, they left.
 At the lumber yards fire hose was
 hroughtout and as the crowd approach ed the office water was thrown on
 them. At the same time Metca--, ad-
 vanced on the crowd with rifle. The
 Mexicans closed ln on him. took the gun from his hands and beat him to death with IL William Metcalf, a nephew, rushed to the rescue of his uncle when he was shot by Mexican. Three Mexicans were killed at the lun- Der yard.