Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-11-30 | Page 8 | Tribune Gives City First News of Battle Thousands Watch Bulletins from Bingham

TRIBUNE GIVES CITY FIRST NEWS Of BATTLE jg s ' & THOUSANDS WATCH BULLETINS FROM BINGHAM I CROWD READING TRIBUNEBULLEJINS A FEW MINUTES AFTER BATTLE. Five-Minute Service Maintained Main-tained During Afternoon and Evening. THE first lla6h of tho newa that Raphael Lopez, the crazed Mexican Mex-ican outlaw, driven to "bay in tho underground workings of a Bingham mine, had wronght deadly havoc with his unerring rifle, was furnished fur-nished the public by The Salt Lake Tribune. A Tribune correspondent near tho entrance en-trance to the tunnol in which tho shooting shoot-ing occurred heard tho shots and a few moments later learned the fatal rosults. lie Hashed tho news to Tho Tribune and it was at onco bulletined. 1 An enormous crowd gathered in fiont of The Tribuno building to watch for tho nows of tho details of tho shooting, and it was only when tho competitors of Tho Tribuno inquired as to the reason rea-son for the crowd gathered in front of Tho Tribune that they learned of tho Bingham tragedy. Tho Tribuno not only furnished tho first nows of the Bhootine to tho passers-by on Main Btrcet, but also gave tho s'horiff's office. tho county jail, the stato prison, tho theaters and tho clubs tho first newB of tho shooting. All afternoon and ovoning an enor-mouB enor-mouB crowd waited in front of Tho Tribuno Trib-uno office for nows from the sceno of tho underground battle. ITive-minuto bulletin service from tho mine was secured se-cured by The Tribune and each bulletin bulle-tin was posted just as soon ns it was received from tho mine. Sheriff Andrew Smith, Jr., from tho sceno of tho shooting, telephoned The Tribuno to announce by bullotln that twelvo armed mon were needed at onco at the mine. The bulletin was posted and within a few minutes tho armed posse of twelvo mon started for tho sceno of the Bhooting in two automobiles. No sooner had the word been spread that there was shooting in Bingham than the telephono cails began to pour Into Tho Tribune to learn tho details of the shooting. The telephono oporators wero almost Bwnmped by the avalanche of calls. Through co-operation with the telephono company, a direct lino was kept open to Bingham and tho public wa3 Informed through the other lines of tho details of tho tragedy. Tho widespread Interest in tho man hunt for the desperate outlaw was evidenced evi-denced by the fact that the latest developments de-velopments comprised tho sole topic for discussion In cafes und restaurants, on tho street and in the home. Suggestions as to how to get tho Mexican and what to do with him wero heard on all sides. All wero agreed that Lopez was the greatest outlaw in tho history of modern crime, not even excepting tho notorious Harry Tracy.