Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-02
ASSAULT c. H.MOYER
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 IL 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 di-
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 | were on
our way to our room at the Scott no
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. Five minutes later" Meyer con-
tinued, mine whistles began to blow
as if in 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.
/ 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.
1.-TWO deputies accompanied us on
board and bought tickets. On the train
l 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 a result of his
assertion that he had evidence that a
man wearing a star of the Citizens
Alliance gave the false cry of fire,
which resulted in the death of ~ chill
dren at the strikers Christmas tree
Charles H. Meyer, president Of the
Western Federation of Miners, is Civ
en- as the reason he was driven out OF
town and went to Hancock, which is
IL. frD
Strikers Worked Up.
Calumet strikers are intensely work
ed up over the expulsion and shooting
of Meyer. Threats are freely made Of
avenging the treatment of their lead
err. Members of the Alliance refuse t
discuss the situation.
Socialist Newspaper Men Arrested.
Calumet, Mich.-Warrants were
served on the business manager ant
dozen or more employees of a so
cialist newspaper in Hancock, the
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 carYie'
through the streets down 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 oppresse
the community since u men, wome
and children were killed.
Ask Congress to investigate.
Chicago.-An appeal to congress
investigate conditions in the cope
country of Michigan was made Sun
day by the Chicago Federation of LII
Dor in resolutions which directl
charged owners of the mines and the
agents with being responsible for tn
tragedy of Christmas eve, when
children and adults lost their lives.
Gunmeh Rule District.
The resolutions also charged th'
Houghton county is under COVER
ment by gunner under orders of II
mine owners, and that Charles
Mover. president of the Western Fe
Grafton of Miners, was assaulted, she
and driven out of Hancock by thus
and gunner.