Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-24
STRIKERS RIOT
AT CALUMET
and HECLA
THE SHERIFF At CALUMET WIRES
GOVERNOR FOR STATE TROOPS.
THE RIOTERS ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR CLOSING MINES AND ALL
SURFACE PLANTS.
NO STATE TROOPS
HAVE Been SENT YET

Calumet, Mich, July 24.--Strik,
violence occasioned by yesterday.
walkout of copper miners in this dis
trict, grew beyond the control of Sher
iff Crune today and he wired to Gov
ernor Ferris asking that state troops
be dispatched to maintain order. The
local militia companies were ordered
to hold themselves in readiness fol
service, pending word from the gov
ernor, who it is understood, was on
his way from Alpena to Lansing.
| The chief attack of strikers today
was directed against the Calumet and
Hecla properties. Shortly before noon
300 men, armed with steel drills, clubs
and stones and with few of them
displaying and firing revolvers, di-
vested of their stars all the deputies
stationed at number conglomerate
shaft of the company The strikers
then moved over to the Hecla branch
mine and repeated their tactics.
Several men were badly beaten and
sent to hospitals in the fights that de-
yeloped.
The strikers also visited all sur
face plants of the companies affected
land closed them.
George Danbloom, aged go was so
badly beaten that he may die,
George Unsworth, chief engineer at
the Superior mine house. was cut
about the throat while defending his
hoisting engine.
August Beck chief of the Calumet
and Hecla police staff, was beaten
last night, but recovered and is in
charge Of protective measures again.
J. Kenneth Mcleod. engineer at the
Red Jacket shaft, had his nose broken
by a stone ~
At noon the disturbance had ceased
temporarily, but more trouble was
The machine shops. blacksmith
shops and founderies which worked
yesterday. stopped when visited by
strikers this morning and the stamp
mills shut down, owing to lack of ore,
Merchants of Hancock and the
South Range district put their sales
On cash basis this morning. The !
mine management are acting in con-
cert, and will wait until the situation
s under control before attempting to
resume operations, although the clos |
ing of the Conglomerate shafts of the
Calumet and Heca for an indefinite |
time may mean costly damage to
them.
Governor Ferris in a message from
Alpena this morning stated he is pre-
pared to come to the copper country ,
and to take personal charge of the
situation on the first intimation of SER
ious trouble. Adjutant General Van
1ercook at Lansing has wired eve"y
militia captain in the state to have his
nen ready
William Richards, struck on the
read by stone, is in serious con-
lition. His skull is fractured He is
employed as plasterer by the Calumet
md Hecla.
Five hundred Greek strikers, many
;arrying clubs, marched through Cal
met at noon to their headquarters,
,ut there was no further disorder.
Governor Ferris will be advised by
Sheriff Crune at once that the situa
ion is serious enough to warrant
ending troops here.
All was quiet early this afternoon.
rhe miners are assembling for a mass
Meeting at headquarters in Calumet.
Troops the Last Resort.
Bay City, Mich, July 24.-Governor
Ferris, on his way to Alpena, said to
lay that he would not grant Sherii!
1rune's request for troops in the cop
,er mine strike district except as n
asst resort 10 protect lives. :
When he was about to board mis-
rain for Alpena, Governor Ferris sent
mother telegram to the sheriff at
as follows: +,
What is the situation at this hour?
10 all in your power to avoid calling
roops. Will send troops if necessary,
property and life must be protected.
Sheriff in Hands of NIB.
Lansing. Mich, July 24.-The pov-
rnor's office this afternoon received :
message from the sheriff at Calumet 7
tating that he was in the hands of a ,
nob of 500 men and that another mob f
If 500 was on the way to Calumet c
rom Ahmeek, small mining town /
lear Calumet. Il
The first direct information receiv
d It the executive office during the l
overnOr's absence was contained in {
telegram received shortly before |
oon today from ]. w. Black,
Ioughton county politician. He wired
Local officials unable to handle
ituation. A lot of disorder anc vio
ence last night and you are justified
n sending troops at once. Business
nen and best saloonkeepers urge that
il saloons in Houghton county be {
losed"
At noon today Adjutant General |
'andercook. of the state militia re-
eived instructions from Governor
'erris to have everything in readi- {
Tess for the calling of state troops If !
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