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Show Victor Record Wrecked by Mob Outrage Perpetrated by Eight Unknown Un-known Men in Colorado Gold Camp. VICTOR. Colo.. June S. Eight unknown un-known men, armed with shot guns?, rifles, pistols and sledge hammers, entered the olHce of the' Victor Record at 11:45 o'clock tonight, ordered the men to thiow up their hands, broke up the machinery and then told the men to yet out of the district ay faft as they could. There Is no clew at the present time to the Identity of the men. George Kyner, proprietor of the paper, was at lunch, and Foreman Walter Sweet was In charge of the men. They were busily engaged getting out the morning paper, when suddenly eight heavily armed men opened the front door and walked back to the composing-room. composing-room. They threw their guns on the startled men who were at work, and one, who was evidently the leader, called out: "Line up now and throw up :our hands." The men obeyed quickly. The men then wrecked two Linotype much lues, several Job presses and all the equipment of the office. Thej smashed the telephone and a typewriter. When their work of ruin was completed tthey marched the Record employees put on the sidewalk and told them to get out of town. The printers walked north and the eight men started off toward to-ward the- south. The Record has been known as the organ of the "Western Federation of Miners lu this section. The men who were ordered to leave the district are Waiter Sweet. F. "V. Langdon, printers; John Danncld. pressman, and Art Caldwell, apprentice. The men have not decided whether they will leave or not. |