| Show BLOOD IS SHED IN THE VVARDNERM1NERS STRIKE t One of Their Own len Shot To Death By Mistake Others Wounded In the Fray Filled the lines With Dynamite and Exploded Them Seize Railroad TrainsMcKinley Refuses Troops Spokane Wash April 29A Ward ner special to the SpolesmaRevl w saysWardner ardner today has ben the scene of the worst riots since the deadly labor war oC 1892 One man is dead another Is thought to be mortally wounded and property valued at 25000 has been dz stoyed by giant powder The damage was done by union men and sympathizers from Canyon Creole about twenty miles from Warder This morning a mob of from 800 to 1000 men all of them armed and many of them mashed seized a tin at Burke the head of Canyon creek Thee were IIn box cars and a passenger coach and they were black with the mob The vIsitors brought with tem 30 rounds of gIant powder After a parley of two hour 10 mashed men armed with Winchesters started with yels for the Bunker Hi and SullIvan mill and other buildings a third of a mile from the depot They sent pickets ahead and one of thEs pickets fred a shot as a signal that the mi was abandoned This was mIsun dertoo by the maIn body of the mob who imagined that nonunIon miners In the mills had opened fire on them pIckets anti they began firing on their own Kill One of Their Own Crowd About 1000 shots were thus xchang ed between the rioters and their uick ets and Jack Smith one or the picket formerly of British Columbia and a noted figure in drill contests was shot dead The fatal error was discovered after a few seconds firing anti iU 5 body was brought down from the bill side sideBy By this time the strikers had taken possession of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Sul-livan mill which they fund desert the manager hang directed hIs cm ployees not to risk their lives by bat tlng with the mob Powder was called for and sixty ffypound boxes were carried frm the depot to the mm The heaviest charge was place among the machinery of the mill Another charge was placed under the brice otce building build-ing Other charges were Placed around the mm Them the boardinEhouse a frame structure was fred Fuses leading t the charges were lighted and the tril eJS carrying the dead body of the picket retired to a safe distance At 236 p m the first blast went off i It shook the ground for miles and buildings il Vardner two miles away trembled At Intervals of about thirty I seconds four other chares went off the I fifth being the largest and complete I demolished the mill The los to the Bunker Hill Sal lyan company is estimated from SilO 000 to S30OOO Other Men Wounded In a few mInutes the strIkers went I back to the station the whistle was blown for stragglers the mob soon climbed aboard and at 3 oclock i15t three hours after its arrival the traIn puled out for Canon Creek During the fusillade from the funs of the mob Jim Chayne a Bunker Hill Sullivan mlman was severely shot through the hips I is reported that he was carried off by the strikers and his wound Is probably fatal J J Roger Rog-er a stenographer in the employ of the company was shot through the lip but his wound is trivial ThIs morning the 230 nonunIon mine at the Bunker Hill Sullivan had warning o the comIng of the mob and left the mine and took to the hills They have not been seen since Union men working in the Lat Chance left the mine this morning presumably sumabl to take part in the riot TonIght the Bunker Hill Sullivan I mine is closed When It will be reopened re-opened isa thing that no living Hkn can bay With the mill wrecked it Is impossible to handle the ore produced at the mine workings The Last Chance Is likewise closed down It has been getting power from the Bunker Hill mine and the destruction of ose works will absolutely prevent the Last Chance from working for the next three months or until its own compressor is complete Meanwhile the total working force of the town is laid off The wrecking of the mill plant involves in-volves the livelihood of 60 men The Bunker Hill mine up to the time of tle strike had been working 360 men and the mill ninety while the Last ClJtc altogether employed 150 Alarm Women and Children As soon as the first word of the serious se-rious trouble reached the town all thE saloons closed UP immedlatell The merchants of the town shut up 10t of their establishments As the first shots were heard the excitement I ex-citement Increase Children were running run-ning about crying and trying to get comfort from older persons but aU were too bus to look at them Scores of women and children hastily made preparations to leave the place tIn t-In up what few belongings could beg be-g thered together quickly the crowd rushed to the depot All were intent upon getting aboard the passenger train that was soon to leave for Spokane Spo-kane Others took to the hills for safety for a few hours hoping to be able to return soon to their home I |
