| Show Echoes from fram the dust Gunfire irrupts in coal mine dispute Echoes from the Dust bust feature Is selected from the files of the Vernal Express and printed as asIl asit asit it Il appeared on the date noted at atthe atthe atthe the top of each feature February 10 1911 tJ Differences which began to develop between Greek and American miners at the mine of the Independent Coal and Coke Company broke Into a furious battle after day break today and until pm p.m. this afternoon afternoon af the battle raged a handful of Americans pitted against more than loo Greeks successfully defended Kenilworth WHEN THE TILE battle raged most furiously and thousands of shots had been exchanged towards 9 o'clock in the forenoon Watchman Thomas Jackson 35 of Helper was shot through the heart and killed as ashe ashe ashe he was leading several up the draw int into the surrounding ding where more than 30 Greeks occupied a temporary tern tem stronghold shooting into the settlement at their leisure Two Greeks were killed but just what their names are will not be known until Tuesday when Sheriff Thomas Keiter will lead a recon- recon party into the fastness which the Greeks occupied and held for more than nine hours The two bodies of the dead Greeks could be observed before sunset One lies on an overhanging rock at the very top of the cliffs which overhang the mining camp while the theother theother theother other could be seen less distinctly in the snow snow near the top of the cliffs about yards away FIVE GREEKS were taken prisoner during the early stages of the battle Upon the books of the fuel company their names appear as John George Nick John Matsoe and Theros Kalos A few minutes before they were arrested they had been sending volley after volley jinto i the mining the mining c camp mp from il automatic tom ti revolvers They were locked up in a room of the Kenilworth Inn manacled and under h heavy avy guard It is believed that the trouble in the mine was brought about through Greek agitators who visited Kenilworth last week Thursday the Greek miners began to grumble to Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Thomas Bell about wages in which they claim that the coal which they dug out of the mine was being un- un and that they were being ted against in favor of a bigger pa pay envelope for American miners That there would be trouble Inthe in inthe inthe the mine became more apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent Friday when the Greeks practically refused to work and abused their foreman Meetings were held In their tents and hovels in Kenilworth Friday night and on the following morning the Greek miners from all working shifts were arrayed in a solid line in front of the mine entrance entrance When American laborers and such as were not of the Greek nationality started to work said Superintendent Bell the Greeks threatened harm The Greeks were then too numerous and and prevented willing workers from entering the mines We were in no way prepared for the assault of the Greeks upon the camp though we had surmised at 2 o'clock this morning that something serious was In the air The Greek miners had failed to go to bed In the streets they were making signs to each other which none understood Possibly two hours before day daybreak daybreak daybreak break practically all the Greek employees had left the camp where they had gone was a mystery to the watchman IN KENILWORTH about o'clock T. T W W. Tullis who rises earlier th than n anyone else in Kenilworth and attends to the power heating plant observed four fires on high benches immediately south of the camp To the north near the high pinnacle two other campfires blazes One campfire in the north w was s suddenly shut shutoff shutoff shutoff off from view Another fire at atthe atthe atthe the other extreme disappeared when one of the campfires on the north pinnacle seemed suddenly to go out Then with a flash all the campfires which had been observed first by Tullis again came into view They continued to appear and disappear for more than half an hour Tullis called the attention of watchmen in the camp who last nights night after consulting with Yi the deputy sheriff came to the a. a conclusion that the appearing and disappearing lights were signals between the Kenilworth Greeks and Greeks who had come over from Castle Gate to assist in making preparations for the attack upon the set set- The campfires of the Greeks finally died out and nothing could be seen on the edges of the which within easy range surrounded Kenilworth much after the thena na nature ture of a horseshoe Investigation into the incident is continuing |
