Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-10-11
D|E7z CABIN
SURROUNDED
GORDON OF DEPUTIES PREPARES
TO CLOSE IN ON CAM.
ERON DAM.
LEADER BRAGS WHAT HE WILL DO
Machine Guns May Be Used on House
At Last Resort.-Winter Still
Armed and Inhabitants
Quake in Terror.

"llteI, WIS.,, OcL. 4.-JOnn DlotZ,
the defender of Cameron Dam, will
be the object Of a grim siege from
now on until his capture, or escape
The tide of battle changed with the
establishment Of Gordon of shart,
shooters and woodsmen at vantage
points on the approaches to the log
cabin on Thornapple river.
Regardless of the fact that from
now on the fight will be pushed into
Dietz's territory, the guard on Winter
has not been relaxed, the city officials
at any time fearing an attack by Dietz
On the Thornapple turnpike the cor.
don extends to the bridge that crosses
the Brunnis river. Here, just above the
ford, the men have ambushed them
selves in the bluff behind blind of
fallen trees, and underbrush. They
command two-mile view of the long,
undulating swamp that comprises the
meandering valley Of the Brunnis river
and also view for mile to the top
of hill on the Thornapple turnpike in
the direction of the Dietz farm
Along the Price Dam road, the out
posts are stationed five miles from
Winter at a sharp turn in the road,
where from an eminence on a wooded
hillside view of the highway can
be had for two miles. Three men have
been assigned to guard the Kaiser log
ging road which plunges from the
country road in the densest of the
forest and is almost impossible except
to pedestrians.
Fight to be to Finish.
Fred Thorbin, who is at the head Oh
the armed deputies and is the recog-
niZed head OF the martial law" which
still prevails in this section of the
country, says: This will end forever
the controversy over Dietz. There
Will be no abatement to this endeavor
to wrest him from the fastness of his
fortified cabin. No doubt some of us
will be killed in doing it and Dietz
himself will surely be killed if he re.
sists. The thing has gone far enough
and this will simply be the finish of
it. If he holds out too long, the chair
man of the county board has advised
the use of a field gun and has given
his official permission for it's use."
BY special order of Sheriff Mike
Madden at Hayward, no newspaper
correspondents were allowed within
the lines drawn around the Dietz
place. A party of newspaper men was
held up at the point of guns at Brunnis
Ford and turned about. Sheriff Mad. |
den Is authority for the statement that
there had been too much publicity, and
that Dietz was receiving much of his
moral support from this source. A
correspondent who rode along the
guarded road while armed men in the
brush on either side let him 20 un
molested, was expected to return with |
news OF great worry and despair in |
the Dietz household, but disappoint. |
ment was evident when, upon his re.
turn to Winter, such information was
not forthcoming.
When Under-Sheriff George Arnson,
left Winter with Myra Dietz, suffering
excruciating pain, in the baggage car
he had been instructed by Dr. S. J.
Burns to take the wounded girl imme-
diately to the hospital at Chippewa
Falls, as it was a case Of life and
death. At TuscObia. Arnson received
a telegram from District Attorney
Davis also, it is said, ordering the
girls removal to Chippewa Falls.
William Dietz, brother of the defend.
err of Cameron Dam, met the train
and tried to console the wounded girl
yhn hDu ,,1o nj h0r
suffering which the enforced trip on
the floor of the baggage car meant.
William Dietz demonstrated with the
and demanded his niece's
removal to st. Josephs hospital at
Chippewa Falls as originally intended,
but Arnson was obdurate and insisted
in changing the litter from the bag
gage car of one train to another and
the girl was taken to Ashland, Wis,
instead
According to confidential state.
ment made by Myra to Mrs Phelan
when she was confined in the Hotel
Winter the first words spoken during
ing. That this statement by the
wounded girl is true, is verified by
the fact that Clarence from his cell
tells the same story and Leslie after
his fight through the woods, placed
the same words in the mouths of the
attacking party. Since the ambuscade
hero LAS been absolutely no chance
Tor ire three Children to set together
and make up tie story.
"My child was burned terribly about
re face, neck and chest. applied
Dr.. Thomas Eclectric Oil. The pain
ceased and the child sank into restful
sleep. Mrs. Nancy M. Hanson, Ham
ourg, N. Y.