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Show crop- Dynamite Used by Enraged Strikers to Head Off United States Troopa by Blowing tip Bridges. ENCOURAGED BY SUCCESS - The Coeur d'Alene Miners Grow Confident of Their Ability to dope "With Uncle Sam's Blue-Ooated Boys. They are Thinking of Meeting the Troops in Battle With Rifle and Dynamite Dyna-mite as Weapons. ALL QUIET AT HOMESTEAD The Oarnegie Company Says Their 50,-000 50,-000 Employes May Go Out, but They Will Grant No Conference. Spokane, Wash., July 13. Strikers blew up the railroad bridge at Mullan this morning morn-ing to prevent the troops from Missoula effecting an entrance. All Coeur d'Alene mines are filled with explosives preparatory to general destruction. Strikers will ' have trouble to pass as the state and federal troops hold practically all passes. BATTLE BEGINS AT THREE O CLOCK. Wallace, Idaho, July 13. The night passed without incident. The miners rested on their arms. Colored troops arrived at Mullen at 2 o'clock this morning and are still there.. It is feared if they come to Wallace Wal-lace every mine of the association will be blown up. - Efforts are being made to hold the troops at Mullen to avoid disaster. All mills of the mines where non-union men have been employed are charged with magazine and fuse. At a signal it is said all will be blown up, but only in the event of troops arriving on the scene. CONSTERNATION PREVAILS. A bridge was blown up at 9:30. No trains are running between Wallace and Mullan. Bunker Hill and Sullivan have been ordered or-dered to sur.ender at 3 o'clock this after noon. If they are not surrendered at that time battle will begin. If they are surrendered surrend-ered troops will be allowed to take possession posses-sion of the Cceur d'Alene cpuntry. TROOPS EN ROUTE. Portland, July 13. A special train over the Union Pacific left at 9:30 o'clock, bearing 200 members of the Fourteenth infantry from Vancouver, Wash., for the Coeur d'Alene. A special train over the Union Pacific arrived at Pendleton this morning, bearing troops froops from Idaho. Two companies left rort . snerman ior tbe scene of trouble. In all 700 United States troops and railiiia on the way to the mines and will arrive this afternoon and tonight. Superintendent Baxter of the United States aj that no report re-port of a. bridge, blown up at Mullan has been received. THE CARNEGIE COMPANY IS FIRM. They Will Grant the Strikers no Conference Confer-ence Whatever. Pittsbcrg, July 13. Lovejoy, secretary of the Carnegie company, says that the threat of employes of several of the company's mills to strike unices the company grant a conference with the Homestead men will have no effect on the company. That the company will under no circumstances hold a conference, , even if every man in every mill operated by the company goes out. LABOR .MILITARY ORGANIZATION. Chicago Carpenters Preparing for Future Conflicts Between Laborers and Hired Assassins. Chicago, July 13. The secretary of the state has granted a license to the carpenters council of this city to form an independent military organization. Fifteen hundred workingmen of tbi city have already joined the organization, wnicn, ii is expeewju, win reach 3500 inside of a week. The avowed object is to enable labor to fight any private armed force which capital may bring- to settle labor disputes. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. Frlck Testifies In an Uncertain and Ronnd- about Manner. f Pittsburg, July 13. The congressional committee continued the Homestead investigation inves-tigation this morning with a further examination exam-ination of Frlck of the Carnegie company. He detailed the arrangements with the Pin-kertons Pin-kertons to furnish guards for the Homestead property, and said the arms were consigned to the Union Supply company, who delivered de-livered them to Captain Rodgers of, the Pinkertons. Frick was not sure, but supposed he had something to do with furnishing arms. Ho could not be brought to answer more definitely. He believed the Pinkertons advised that arms would be needed, but arms were not stipulated stipu-lated in the employment of guards. Frick said the wages paid at Homestead were higher than at any other place. Chairman Boatner of the committee declared de-clared the scale of wages paid as explained by Frick was the highest wages he ever heard of. Captain Rogers was then called. He told of the trip to Homestead, accom- . J . -l. l 1 U 1.1. paniea oy a uepuvj tuoi m. nu.uu official capacity. He tbe detailed the story of the fight at Homestead and said that the 'strikers tired first. ' Sheriff McCleary testified that the Carnegie Carne-gie company had notified him a week before the men went out that there wonld be troublo ; that they were arranging to send 3G0 men to Homestead, and wanted them them deputized. FLUSHED WITH VICTORY, Coeur d'Alene Miners Drive Oat Non-Union Non-Union Men and Rejoice. Wabdnek, Idaho, July 13. Outwardly all is quiet in tbe Coeur d'Alene district, but it is the quiet of desperation. Strikers yesterday yester-day had a day of uninterrupted victory vic-tory with the result of complete possession of the mines and mills of Bunker Hill and Sullivan and Sierra Nevada. Non-union men have been driven out of the country and the strikers are flushed with victory and are talking confidently con-fidently of meeting the militia and regular troops and fighting them with the rifle and dynamite. Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills are now loaded with dynamite and could be destroyed on a moments notice. Some of tha state-officers at Sierre, Nevada, report that dyna-mitethad dyna-mitethad been sent down on the railroad track to blow up the bridges and prevent tbe troops from crossing into the country. .Armed men have left the town, and it Is supposed to intercept the cavalry from Fort Sherman. |