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Show REIGN OF TERROR IN COLORADO An Infernal Machine Is Exploded in Cripple Creek District, a Number of Non-Union Workmen Being Massacred. A conconlod assassin, by merely pulling a wire, exploded an lnfcrnnl machine, thereby Instantly killing olovon men 'and severely wounding nlno others, ono of whom has slnto died, nt Independence, Colo., Monday. Most of tho killed nnd Injured wore non-union miners employed on tho night shift of tho Klndlcy mlno. Tho men hnd quit work tit 2 n. m, nnd wero wnltlng to board tho suburban train on tho Tloronco ft Cripple Crook railroad and return to tholr homes In Cripple Crook and Victor. Vic-tor. Just after tho engineer of tho approaching train blew his whistle ns n signal to tho miners, nccordlng to custom, a torrillc oxplosion occurred underneath tho depot platform on nnd nonr which twenty-six men woro gnthorod. Tho platform wns blown Into splinters, splint-ers, tho depot wns wrecked nnd n holo twenty six foot In clrcumforcnco nnd about as many feet In depth wns torn In tho ground Fragments of bodies wero hurled through spneo for several sev-eral hundred foot and, later, wcro picked up frill quivering. Homo of tho bodies dropped Into tho pit mndo by tho explosion, but bends, hnnds, onrs, logs, arms and trunks woro strewn about on nil sides PIccos of flesh wero found on buildings BOO feet nwny nnd blood-stnlncd everything every-thing within a radius or llfty foot. The force of tho explosion was felt throughout the camp and tho crnsh nwnkened everybody. Tho approaching approach-ing train wns Btoppod nnd tho train crow wore the first men to reach tho Bcono of tho disaster. They wero Joined In a few minutes by hundreds of persons, nnd relief work wns bo-gun bo-gun nt once. Thnt tho diabolical crlmo wan carefully hatched and deliberately perpetrated thoro is now not the shadow of n doubt Two or throo hundred hun-dred 'pounds of powder was ovploded, probably by a revolver attached to tho wire, which still remains leading out from the scene of tho explosion. Street Riot Occurs In Victor, In Which Twenty Men Are Shot, an Innocent Spectator Being Kllfed by Stray Bullet. Ttlotlng broke out In Victor, Colo, Monday afternoon whllo a mass mcot-Ing mcot-Ing was being held to discuss tho murder mur-der of non-union minors by means of an lnfcrnnl machlno nt Independence. Forty shots wero flrod Into a crowd In the street. Ono man was killed and six persons, nt least, Injured. Secrotnry Secro-tnry Clarence C Hamlin of tho Mlno Owners association, concluding a short address, said: "I want to hear what tho boys In tho mines have got to say about this trouble." William Hosklns, a union miner from Ooldflold, throw up his hand and shouted' "Let mo talk " At this tho crowd began to hiss Hosklns Hos-klns nnd cry. "Put him out" A free-for-all fight followed and shooting began. be-gan. Most of the shots wero directed skywnrd. HoHklns foil with a bullet In his body nnd the crowd scattered In every direction Secretary Hamlin, who had been standing on n wagon, kept on talking unmindful of tho hailstorm of bullets that whizzed nbout his bond. n. McCce of A'lotor, who wns In-stnntly In-stnntly killed, had been standing on an embankment thirty feet above tho men who had been lighting nnd was an Innocent spectator. A dispatch from Denver says that Adjutant General Hell has been Informed In-formed by telephono from Victor that an attack was mado lato Monday afternoon on Minors' Union hnll by u squad of soldiers. Mnjor NayloT sent guards to aid In quelling tho dls-turbnnco dls-turbnnco on Fourth stieet. Whon the uniformed men swung Into Fourth street they were tired upon from houses on both sides of tho street. They returned the tiro and raced on at doublo quick until they wore near Minors' Union hall At that point tho. mob had scattered and as the soldiers halted several shots were filed nt them from tho windows of tho hnll. Tho doors of tho building hnd boon left open nnd n doon guardsmen fired Into tho hnll as fast as they could work tho mechanism of tholr rllles. Aftor n few volloys tho order to take tho place by assault was given and they plunged In. It wns reported 'to General Gen-eral Poll that a number of men wero killed, but nono of tho guardsmen wero Injured. Monday's outburst had Its lncei)-tlon lncei)-tlon In tho strlko of tho members of tho Western Federation of Miners something more than a year ago, when 1,000 men quit work for tho purpose, primarily, of enfoicing an eight-hour day This nctlon so Incensed In-censed tho mlno owners thnt they de-clurcd de-clurcd n war on unionism, and tho breach has grown wider with tho passage pas-sage of tlmo Considerable lawlessness lawless-ness has prevailed In tho strike-ridden districts, and unionists havo been brought to trial on numerous charges. Thoy woro invariably acquitted, however. |