The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-06-08
IS AMERICANS
KILLED IN MEXICO
BLOODY RACE WAR BREAKS OUT
BETWEEN AMERICANS AND
MEXlCANS.
RIOT FOLLOWS A STRIKE
MEXICAN COMMANDER SAYS THE
SHOOTING WAS STARTED
BY AMERICANS.
MEXICAN COMMANDER SAYS THE

| Naco, Ariz., June 8. - Forty-five
Americans We're killed yesterday at
Cananea, Mex, forty miles south of
here, where is located the great cop
per camp of Col. w. c. Greene. The
camp is on fire and it is reported that
the Mexicans are defying all authori-
ty. They are reported to be using
dynamite in blowing up the great
shelters and mills owned by the
Greene company. The trouble arose
at Cananea over the demand Of the
Mexicans for an increase in wages
from $3.50 to SIS per day.
Mexicans Open Fire.
| Persons who left there at 1:30 yes
terday afternoon said Col. Greene was
addressing practically the entire pop
ulation of the camp in an effort to
pacify the excited Mexicans. How
ever, between and 5 o'clock yester
day afternoon the Mexicans opened
| fire on the Americans and forty-five
are reported killed.
Col. Greene wired at once to Bis
i
| be sent to protect the Americans and
their property in Cananea. The popu-
lation of Cananea is 23,0O0 of which
| 5000 are Americans.
Flee by Train Load.
The family of Col. Greene arrived
here last evening, but the colonel re-
mains with his property. Two trains
| loaded with refugees are now en-
| route here from Cananea and will go
| to Bisbee.
Gov. Ysabel of Sonora is hurrying
here from Hermosillo, the capital of
the state. and will be met here by the
Bisbee force who will accompany him
| to Cananea.
There has been bad blood at Ca
nanea for some time. and only
month ago the home of the superin-
tendent of the mine was dynamited
by unknown persons. Yesterday one
| of the policemen of the city was killed
by an American who claimed it was
a personal grievance he had against
| the Mexican
Rangers Arm for Fray.
Capt. Tom Rynning of the Arizona
rangers arrived here last night from
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. 1t is believed that the Mex
lean officials at Cananea are doing all
they can to save life and property.
There is great excitement in all the
towns along the border as hundreds
have relatives and friends in Cananea
AT 1880 last night train load of
refugees arrived here from the scene
of trouble and confirmed the stories
received earlier in the evening
1t is known that at least a dozen
Americans have been killed and fully
fifty Mexicans.
Trouble Is Over.
Bisbee, Ariz., June 5.-The situation
at Cananea is again normal. The
American volunteers who went across
the line at Naco with Gov. Ysabol of
Sonora on Saturday morning returned
to Bisbee at 5 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Their services were no longer
needed, although their presence there
during Saturday before the arrival of
Col. Kosterlisky with Mexican rurales
held the situation in check
The town is now under martial law
and Col. kosterlisky is disarming
Americans and Mexicans alike. tel
ephone message to the Review says
not a single shot has been fired since
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
Col. kosterlisky, Gov ISABEL and
the governor general of Sonora, assist
ed by Gen. Torres, are all on the
ground, and Col. Greene makes the
statement that the trouble is over.
conservative estimate of the num-
Der killed in the two days fighting is
thirty-six Mexicans and six Ameri.
cans.
Only a Labor Trouble.
Americans here and at other points
on the border regard the incident at
1 Cananea only as labor trouble which
might have occurred in any large
mining camp where large number of
foreigners are employed. Every eff
fort is being made by Americans and
MeXicans alike to discourage race feel
ing. 1t is felt that the strike at Cana
nea will not influence the friendly re-
lations between citizens of the two ma
tons along the border. Business con-
tinued between Americans and Mex
leans as usual.
BIac,es II on Americans.
Mexico City, June 5.-A statement
made by Luis E. Torres, commander
of the military zone in Sonora, indi-
Gates that the Americans in Cananea
opened fire on the strikers in the lum-
Der yard at the mines which provoked
the stoning that resulted in the death
of the Metcalf brothers. Then, as re-
ported, Americans in automobiles and
on horseback passed through the
streets of the town shooting into pri-
vate residences and killing fifteen
Mexicans and wounding several peo-
pie, including child who was leaving
school.