Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-24
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One Spectator Killed and T~e oahsss
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Butte Mont juno SS-After Z night
OF terror In Butte, apprehension Wa
ssat thruout the city today that the
mob OF insurgent miners that last nirht
wrecked miners union hall with twen.
ty-hve blasts OF dynamite might turn
their activities In, other directions.
Nevertheless the city was outwardly
oalm today.
The mines, all but two near the
wrecked miners hall. from ono Of
which the powder that blew up the
building was stolen, are working today.
Moysr Runs Away.
No trace has been found OF Presi-
dent Charles II. Meyer. of the Western
Federation OF Miners. who last night
called the meeting OF the old union to
order and presented his plan for CON-
Citation OF the warning factions. Hard
" had Meyer read his naner= cc-s.:.!!.
ing to correct the grievances Of tho
seeding miners and concluding with
plea for calmer judgment when the
first shots In the early evening riottnS
in which one spectator was killed, wero
heard. Meyer and about 800 miners
were hurriedly warned to nee for their
lives. They escaped from the rear OF
the building. Two men in the crowd
thru which Meyers machine dashed
followed with drawn revolvers. which
| they discharged a. they gave chase
In a moment tho machine had turned
the corner Since then nothing has
been seen or heard OF the federation
president
Three Men Shot,
Ernest Noy. travelling inspector for
the Montana demurrage bureau, was
| shot dead. He was bystander. The
bullet passed thru his neck.
]. II. Brune, SO years old, was shot
thru the head and cannot live. Bruno
was going up stairs to the hall to 1T
tend the meeting. when = bullet struck
him. Tho deputies apparently fred up
on anyone in sight who approached the
hall.
| President Meyer had asked Sheriff
] Driscoll for protection and had been
assured by the sheriff that deputies
would be on hand to prevent any at
tempt to break up the meeting.
Charles Kramer, of Los Angeles, .
spectator. was wounded in the hght-
ing. but not seriously. Officers finally
got the situation under control.
Hall Completely Wrecked.
After several hundred shots from
discharged the dynamite crew began its
work. This continued until O'Clock
| this morning. when the explosives that
had been taken by force from the
! Stewart mine had been exhausted. The
/, rear and the side walls Of the miners
union hall, erected in 1899, remained
| standing.
| Every pane OF glass in buildings on
! both sides of the street for a block each
side Of the hall was shattered. Tho
property damage will exceed 100000.
First Shots From Hall.
| Police and sherlff's officers were In
active during the riot and dynamiting.
Some effort was made to prevent dam
age to property other than that of the
miners union, but the officials took the
position that 1t would cause far greater
damage to life and property to attempt
| to prevent the mon from destroying
what they asserted belonged to them.
Sheriff Driscoll denies his men
entered the hall or that they fired any
shots during the rioting. The firsts shots
came from the hall where the meeting
was In progress.
| Killing Of Noy infuriates.
The killing of Ernest Noy had the
effect of infuriating the crowd and soon
hundreds of men were hring pistols.
aiming mainly at the windows OF the
union hall. or firing nito the air.
Whether under existing conditions
the mines will be continued in opera
ton is a question being decided today
by the managers of the operating COM
panies.
In a conversation with Governor
Stewart early this morning Mayor
Duncan declared that he saw no need
for state troops. believing that the
situation would quiet itself.
No Word From Meyer.
Denver, Colo.. June give haven't
i heord n word /" yyas the replv Of Ernest