Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-22
COMPLETE RESUME OF LABOR DIS-
 TURbANCES IN STATE FOR MONTHS

Of armed guards. Later, details or deputies went about the streets and roads of the city and district and picked up other men, known l. w. w., known sympathizers and all men who could not give clean account of them selves. Other squads were detailed to rooming and boarding houses and gathered from these a number of men. It was upon one such expedition that the only tragedy of the day occurred, James Brew firing through a door up on a group of five deputies and kill ing Orson P McRae The latter was unarmed. As Brew continued to shoot, one of the deputies lifted his gun and instantly killed him. Brew's mind is believed to have become un- balanced through breeding over the situation in the district. He was an I. w. W. but had not been among the strikers. He fired before the deputies kenw of his presence in the house.
 Ca Sunday. July 15, the people of Bisbee and the Warren district turned out en masse to pay last honors to Or son F. McRae. The body lay in state in the public square. Attorney Chas. T. Knapp pronounced over the body that it was a sacrifice to the country as noble and courageous as any ever given upon battlefield, and that 1t marked Arizona's first extension of life in the conduct of the present war. Ten thousand people of the district, more than 1000 of these being men on foot, marched three miles with the body to the cemetery. Popular sub scription to raise a monument to the 1 fallen patriot in the public square fol- lowed on Monday.
 From time to time during the morn | ing and early afternoon groups of de- tained men were marched by guards over the four miles of road between | Bisbee and the Warren ball park. wherein the men were held. Armed guards kept watch over the park, wherein the men were held. Armed guards kept watch over the park. En- | trance to the latter was accorded all citizens who made request for the pur- pose of going among the crowd and | finding men who could be responsibly vouched for as innocent of l. w. w. participation or sympathy and who desired to be released to go to work. Every man held within the park was accorded the privilege of calling for any person who could clear his name Later the opportunity of release was broadened. every man announcing that he wisEed to return to work and that he would account for himself reliably being privileged to leave the ranks of the detained.
 At 11:SO o'clock ip the morning the bali park gates were opened and the men still inside were ordered to march out and into box and cattle cars which had been placed on a siding. Of ] total detentions during the day to the number of nearly 2,000 there were 1,192 who went aboard the cars. These were pulled out as soon as loaded, about 12:9O. and started for Columbus, | N. NJ, where it was the intention of turning the men over to the federal army commandant at that point for detention as enemies of the country. Water and food were in each car. i Where stops were made by the train to change crews, at Lees station, be yond Douglas, and to take siding for other trains, the detained men were | permitted to leave the cars by the guards mounted on each, but promptly put back in when the train was ready to resume. At Columbus the officer in command declined to receive the men until he had specific orders from Washington. The train was taken back to Hermanas, g miles, remaining there until the morning of the 14th, when Sheriff Simpson, of Luna coun ty, N. M, who took charge of the men on the 18th, when the Bisbee guards returned home, conducted the train to Columbus and turned the men over to the federal army camp. which . sey, of New Mexico, had received in structions to take charge of the men. ! the governor having successfully taken i the position that the problem raised by the I. w w. was a national and not a state issue. In the interim food was forwarded to the train camp.
 The detained men. from the time of being taken into custody in Bisbee, were urged by the l. W. W. leaders to resist all efforts to get them to leave the ranks of the radical crowd. wheth- CT by members of their families, if they had such, by friends, acquaint- ances or entirely unprejudiced persons. Many women, wives and relatives oi detained men, went to the ball park. These were worked upon by women radicals of the l. w. w. outside of the park and a condition of hysteria ere ated in which many of the women, in | violent language, urged the men to go on the train, and denounced friends who offered to intercede and get men out. The efforts of the l. W. W. women radicals outside the park were