The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-01
Quick Action by Jackson Cor
pOral Saves Lives of Scores of
Comrades-Grasps Light
ed Fuse
EXPLOSIVES STOLEN FROM
MINE POWDER MAGAZINES
Presence of Large Quantities of
Explosives Cause of Much
Anxiety-Outrage Feared

CALUMET, Mich, Aug. l.-Quick
~ he part OF Corporal Floyd
be.~AeI, ompany l., Jackson, saved
his life and those OF score OF com
rades, last night, when Joseph Mahil.
chioh, a gigantic Austrian striker, un.
der arrest Tor rioting, attempted TO
explode three s,icks OF dynamite ia
\ ne company's guard tent.
Mahllchich was one OF three men ar
rested on the ch rye OF assaulting u
shift boss and confined In the qua cd
tent awaiting disposition OF their
cases. He asked permission to smoke
md when IL was granted whipped the
dynamite. ready capped and fused,
rom his pocket and applied a match.
Corporal Belcher grabbed the lighted
use. extinguishing the flames, and
;rappled with the Austrian. who, In
spite OF the fact that he was in imni.
nent danger OF being blown to atoms.
put up desperate battle. Other
yards came TO Belcher's aid, but did
aot dare TO act for fear OF the deadly
Explosive which the miner held clutch
I'd in his hand Belcher at last sue
ceeded in getting a grip on the fel-
ow'Ss throat, strangling him until he
eleased the dynamite
he was removed TO the county jail
at Houghton under heavy military
guard.
simultaneously with the attempt 10
dynamite Company l., the theft OF (
arge quantity OF dynamite from one
o. the powder magazines near Houeb.
ON was reported to the military
authorities. Just how much Is miss
ag officers refuse TO state, bat II H.
omitted that the amount Is cOnSit-
rable. All dynamite and giant pow
ser In the district is being seized az
l'apidly ab possible. but there are
large quantities OF the explosive in
he possession OF miners who workeG
on q contract basis and provided their
own dynamite.
The entrance OF dynamite as fac
or In the situation adds more difti.
ulty TO the task OF protecting the fam
lies OF non-union miners. Owing to
ne wide extent OF the strike district
y is impossible to properly patrol res
idence sections, and gangs Of idle
men, most of whom are foreigners,
are going from house to house, terror
hreats have been made against some
OF the women unless their husbands
cease working, the foreign element Y.
crcising flendish ingenuity In depict
ing the most revolving tortures for
heir intimidation. As a result many
of the women are hysterical. SO Sc
rious has the situation become that
Gen. Abbey Is contemplating the es.
ablishment of concentration camps,
where the wives and children of non
union men can live under military
guard. Individual protection is i'm
POSSIBLE because OF the widely scat
tered homes OF the miners.
Union officials deny that they have
ncouraged rioting, and say that their
Organization cannot be held respon-
sible for the acts OF individual hood
Inns. They protested, however,
against the arrest OF Mahilchich. on
ne ground that the troops acted with
out REQUEST from the civil authorities.
4 plan to get a writ of habeas corpus
was abandoned, because the union oifi-
cials wear that martial law viii be
declared the moment they attempt 70
use the civil courts az an obstacle 10
the work of the militia.
Another fracas occurred when Un-
der Sheriff Heikella, Of Houghton, ac-
companied by a detail OF Port Huron
troops under command OF Lieut. j. A.
Course, entered a Hungarian boarding
house TO arrest Lewis Solder. charg-
I'd with being one OF a gang which
brutally attacked Gus Olsen, a mine
employe
Solder was found hiding In cup
board and fred a revolver shot at the
officers the moment the door was open
cd. Several men grappled with him
and took away his weapon, while the
women % the house threw hot water
and cans Of red pepper IN the attempt
10 aid Solder Outside, mob OF 200
attempted 70 rescue the prisoner, and
~-'v the loveled havonets of the soi-
diers kept them back
Orders were issued. to all sentrles
today, to shoot to Kill. o; any attempt
is made to break through the lines.