Show cripple creek the MEN KILLED giant powder put into a mine aud terrible situation may 25 eleven men fillad with a strong probability that the of dead will be in creased when all is know is the rec rd of the first dav of trouble here although tha real fighting haa not yet begun aa the deputies are awaiting reinforcements for cements before beginning active operations erat ions at 10 this morning eleven men started work in the strong mine on battle mountain shortly afterwards a large barty of strikers blew up the shaft house with powder causing a loes of and then dropped pounds of giant powder down the shaft which was also exploded killing all the inmates not more than yards from the strong shat sixteen men wr bad been engaged to go to work in the independence mine were surrounded in their and after a long parley agreed to surrender each one was armed with a rifle and a brace 01 revolvers tha arms now being in the possession of the strikers it is rumored that the strikers attacked the anna lee mine overpowering the guards after which they blew up the shaft bouse but the rumor has not been verified when the deputies are finally mageed and the two forces come together a most desperate battle will doubtless be the situation ie ona of most painful anxiety not a few believe the town will be a shouldering ing mass by another kanaet if the strikers be not restrained at victor six miles away were fully 1000 people reside a of terror exists within a half mile of the corporation limits of the town all day long full union minors armed with have paraded and down the eida of the bill a debour into the village would be made and people whom the miners thought to be objectionable were onerea to cleaye the place the guards from denver upon arrival at victor went into camp on a neighboring bill the strikers threw out a picket line entirely surrounding them but at a distance that them safety from the deputies rines |