The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-06-25

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Ernest L. Noy, aged thirty-one
freight clerk in the Great Northern
Offices, and bystander.
Fatally wounded:
Peter Bruno, aged fifty-one, miner,
aligned with the Meyer forces, shot by
mistake.
Deputies Blamed for Riot.
The trouble was precipitated pre-
sumably by deputies of Sheriff Tim
Driscoll opening fire upon the crowd
when insurgent miners were threaten.
ing to break up meeting of the old
union called by President Charles H.
Meyer, president of the Western Fed.
GRAFTON Of Miners, in an effort to bring
reconciliation between the two warning
factions of the miners.
Eighty deputies, armed with sawed
off guns and revolyeTs, were stationed
in the miners union building in which
were Meyer, President Bert Riley OF
the local federation, local and other of
fcers against whose administration
the miners had revolted.
Meyer Flees Town in Auto.
The moment the fighting began.
Meyer and the other officials hurried
from a rear door and leaped into a
waiting automobile, and were hurried
from the city. The miners, determine
ing upon wreaking vengeance upon
Meyer and other union officials, sur
rounded the miners hall, but they
were kept from approaching close
enough to use dynamite by the depu-
ties who swept the streets with their
fire.
Fire at Deputies From Roofs.
Miners finally gained access to the
roofs from nearby buildings, poured a
steady fire into the miners hall, final
ly dislodging the deputies who, under
cover Of the darkness, effected their
escape from the building unframed
and proceeded to the county jail.
With the hall in their possession, a
band of armed miners proceeded to the
Stewart mine, where the engineer al
the hoisting engine was overpowered
and at the point OF the rioters guns
was compelled to lower a number OF
miners into the mine where number
of boxes of dynamite were secured.
Blow Up Miners Hall.
With wild shouts the rioters pro
ceeded to the miners hall, property OF
the federation, and while a number OF
the rioters kept continuous fusillade
Of shots going into the air, blast was
placed against the side Of the miners
hall and exploded 1t served only to
dislodge a number of bricks, but did
break every window glass within the
radius of block. Then second, third
and fourth charges were exploded and
gaping holes torn in the side of the
building. Finally a charge which
caused plate glass windows of the DAILY
Bank & Trust company block and a
half distant to crash and demolished
the lower portion of the front of the
two-story structure and the miners
were aroused to a new frenzy.
Twenty-Five blasts were fired against
the miners hall, the front of the struc
ture was blown out. The rear and side
walls are standing, but they appeared
wabbly and it was expected that the
continuing mine bombardment soon
would reduce the entire structure to a
mass of jumbled brick.
Miners Finally Disperse.
Leaders of the insurgents are max
ing herculean efforts to induce the
miners to go home and they rushed
the newspaper Offices and hurriedly
had thousands of handbills printed
calling upon the miners in the name OF
the new union, to dispense and go to
their homes. The leaders of the insur
gents. through megaphones, command
ed the men to go home. The move
had salutary effect, although small
band still remained on the street.
Governor Stewart, who has been in
telephone communication with Butte
said that he had under consideration
the question of ordering trohns n