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Show It . NIGHT OF HORROR j IN CITY OF VICTOR 1 itV,l VICTOR, Colo., June 7. Excitement t ran at a high pitch last night, although I ' ' no sensational Incidents occurred after ; ( the riot of the afternoon. From dark 'i , j until dawn the principal streets were l i i almost as crowded as they were during , f the day by thousands of men and wo- ; , i men who had assembled from all parts , L - I of the camp. In the belief that darkness X J " . would Invite further bloodshed. Their L ifl , expectations, however, proved to be J ;jr, groundless. ' ' Shriek Prom Gun. J n I Aside from the" occasional arrest of a T ' union agitator by the military author- 5 Itles or the Sheriff's deputies and the f ' , occasional shriek of a Krag-Jorgensen f , ' , , ! from some dark, secluded spot in the ly IV foothills, the night passed off quietly. V; '3 1m AH night, however, the streets of the If . 1 city and the foot paths leading to and ti i from the mines were watched closely Iff . by the troops and the deputies, and n ( J every few minutes a hard-faced miner J ',1 wa& brought in and placed In the ar- .. I 'R mory, which Is under heavy military " L '.1 guard, ' Dragnet Cast Far. rt The dragnet was cast far and wide, U ' nnd more than 150 union men, said to j ' ' e the leaders of the riot yesterday, ji I I, ! are now lounging on the hard lloor ft , j i of the armory. Many have been there w ? . since early yesterday morning, and L- 4 (i. 1 l "there is np telling how much longer ' L they will be kept In confinement. 1 , i At midnight Jnst night a special train of five coaches drawn by a heavy en- ; J sine pulled In on the Florence & Cripple l' ' i Creek siding near the temporary bull- ft , 1 pen and the suppressed excitement was $ ' I suddenly raised to fever heat It was tv: ; ! rumored, and apparently with some f ! foundation,' that some twelve or fifteen 1 ,1 '' jl of the recognized leaders of the union l . were to be turned over to Sheriff Bell, IX I' 1 and that all other prisoners were to be I'v 1 ! deported from the camp. As soon as ft r ' the train backed on the siding Secretary f, fi , C. C. Hamlin of the Mine-Owners' as- 1 A soclatlon, Sheriff Bell, Mayor French It 1 il . and Capt. Moore wont Into conference at the military headquarters. In about thirty minutes Hamlin came out of hla private room and telephoned to the railroad rail-road officials that tho train would not be needed at that time. When this Information In-formation went the rounds those who had been expecting trouble gave a sigh of relief, and many went to their homes. No More Troops Needed. Mayor French said today that In his opinion no more troops are needed here. "Company Ij, now on duty, consists of sixty men," he said, "and the number num-ber can be increased to 100 if necessary. Besides these soldiers we have 100 armed deputies. The civil authorities have perfect mastery of the situation. Should the military turn over their prisoners to the civil authorities there will be no lynching " However, the feeling against Alf Miller, Mil-ler, who Is said to have started tho rioting riot-ing here, former City Marshal Michael O'Connell, by whom, it is asserted, union men who fired upon people in the streets from tho union hall, had been sworn In ns deputies ana armed, and Harvey Starbuck, former Marshal of Independence, Is strange. Every person in the district has taken sides with one faction or the other here, and nobody would be surprised should rioting break out anew at any moment. Will Banish Federation. "The Western Federation of MlncrG will be banished from the district," de-clare de-clare the mine-owners. "It has not been proven that the dynamiting dy-namiting was done by the Federation," retort union men. "We have a right to organize and to remain here." Both sides express a determination to fight to the bitter, end. Business Is practically prac-tically suspended in Victor and conditions condi-tions in Cripple Creek are little if any better. All saloons are closed by order of the authorities. Many merchants have closed their stores and all who can are doubling or treblJng their insurance. in-surance. Feeling: Is Intense. At noon the situation grows more In-tensefi In-tensefi though a recurrence of yesterday's yester-day's experience is not expected, as nearly all the union miners have been disarmed. The feeling against the unions Is very bitter. The crowd around the armory, the Short Line and the Florence and Cripple Crip-ple Creek depots contlnea to increase, and the soldiers and deputies are having some difficulty In keeping the streets passable. By order of Mayor French, the fire department de-partment has stretched a line of hose from a fire plug at the corner of Victor avenue under Third street to the armory for the purpose of dispersing the crowd without the resort to the uee of arms-. There are now 200 union miners In the bull pen and others are being rounded up. The Sheriff, the military authorities authori-ties and the mine-owners now openly state that a wholesale deportation of union miners will occur, although they will not State when. No firing hap been done today and no untoward disturbance of any kind has occurred. |