Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-01-02
ASSAULT c. H.M0YER
PRESIDENT OF WESTERN FEEDER.
ALTON OF MINERS FORCED TO
LEAVE CALUMET, MICH.
SHOT TWICE AND TERRIBLY BEATEN
Member Of Citizens Alliance Charged
With Crying "Fire' at Strikers
Christmas Tree, Causing Panic,
In Which 72 Lives Were Lost.

Christmas Tree, Causing Panic,
in Which 72 Lives Were Lost.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Suffering from
two bullet wounds in his shoulders
and one in his head, President Meyer
of the Western Federation of Miners
arrived here Saturday. He came d.
rectly from the copper country. where
he said he was expelled the night be-
fore after being frightfully beaten,
shot and subjected to gross indignities
by, as he says, members Of the Citi-
zens' Alliance.
Asked concerning his attack and ex-
pulsion, Meyer continued:
Organizer Tanner and l were on
our way to our room at the Scott ho-
tel at Hancock. Sheriff Cruise called
and demanded that we accept funds
from the Citizens Alliance collected
for families of the Christmas eve fire
Victims"
Meyer said he refused and Cruise
left. give minutes later" Meyer con-
tinued, mine whistles began to blow
as If in a prearranged signal, for as
they blew $50 members of the Citizens
Alliance invaded our room. We were
seized and held by some while other
men danced about us, striking us fire.
quently in the face and kicking our
bodies.
Finally some one stepped up from
behind me and shot me. l tainted
when the first bullet entered my back.
I don't remember the second and third
shots.
when l recovered consciousness
we were being passed from one man
to another down the hotel stairs. AS
we passed along each man struck us.
Between lines Of dancing and shout.
ing members Of the Citizens Alliance
we were passed along in this way to
the railroad station.
Two deputies accompanied us or
board and bought tickets. On the train
I received first aid. My wounds were
dressed and again when we reached
Charming"
Meyer is on his way to Chicago
hospital. Tanner is badly bruised.
Murderer Not Known.
| Calumet, Mich.-As result of hi
assertion that he had evidence that {
man wearing star of the Citizens
Alliance gave the false cry Of fire
which resulted in the death of 70 chill
dren at the strikers Christmas tree
Charles H. Meyer, president of thu
Western Federation of Miners, is civ
en- as the reason he was driven out O.
town and went to Hancock, which /.
Just across the river from here.
Strikers Worked Up.
Calumet strikers are intensely work
ed up over the expulsion and shootin,
of Meyer. Threats are freely made O
avenging the treatment of their lead
err. Members of the Alliance refuse t.
discuss the situation.
Socialist Newspaper Men Arrested.
Calumet, Mich.-Warrants wer'
served on the business manager ant
a dozen or more employees of a SC
cialist newspaper in Hancock, thu
charge being Conspiracy to publish
misstatements calculated to incit
riot"
Hold Funeral of Victims.
Calumet, Mich, Sunday.-The West
ern Federation of Miners buried it
dead today. Fifty-nine bodies, includ
ing those of A children, were carrie,
through the streets down a winding
country highway and laid in grave
in a snow-enshrouded cemetery with
in sight Of Lake Superior.
Thousands of saddened miner
formed the escort Of the funera
parties, and passed between othe
thousands who, as spectators. test
fled to the grief that has espresso
the community since 70 men, wome
and children were killed.
Ask Congress to Investigate.
Chicago.-An appeal to congress t
investigate conditions in the cope
country of Michigan was made Sur
day by the Chicago Federation of LII
Dor in resolutions which directl
: charged owners Of the mines and thei
agents with being responsible for tn
tragedy of Christmas eve, when Z
children and adults lost their lives.
Gunner. Rule District.
The resolutions also charged tina
Houghton county Is under govern
J ment by gunner under orders of tn
mine owners, and that Charles +
! Meyer, president Of the Western Fet
Grafton of Miners, was assaulted, sho
and driven out of Hancock by thug
and gunner.