Show REIGN OF TERROR IN COLORADO jt an infernal machine Is exploded in cripple creek district a numb number er of nonunion non union workmen being massacred A conce conceal alel cJ assassin cy by merely pulling a wire exploded an infernal machine thereby instantly killings kil killing lingl eleven cloven men and severely wounding pill nine 0 others othera one of whom has since died bt at independence colo monday most ot of the killed and injured were don union miners employed on the light shift ot of the findley mine the rho men had quit work at 2 a m ind and were waiting to board the suburban tu burban train on the florence cripple creek railroad and return to their homes home in cripple creek and victor to r just after the engineer ot of the approaching train blow his whistle as a signal to the miners according to custom it a terrific explosion occurred underneath the depot platform on and near which twenty six men were gathered the platform wag blown into splinters the depot was wrecked anil and a holo bole twenty sll six feet in circumference and about as many feet in depth was torn in the ground fragments ot of bodies were hurled buried through space for several hundred feet and later were picked up mp still quivering somo some ol of the bodies dropped into the pit made by b 7 the explosion but heads beads hands cars cara legs arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides pieces of flesh were found on buildings BOO feet away and bloodstained blood stained everything within a radius of fifty feet tho the force of the explosion was felt throughout tho the camp and the crash awakened everybody the approaching III 9 train was stopped and the train 1 crew were the first men to reach the see scene ne of tho the disaster they were joined in a few minutes by hundreds of persons and relief work was begun at once that the diabolical crime waa nv as carefully hatched and deliberately perpetrated there Is now not the shadow of a doubt two or three hundred pounds of powder was exploded probably by a revolver attached to the wire which still remains leading out from the scene of the explosion street riot occurs occur in V victor ictor in which 11 twenty men are shot in an innocent spectator celing killed by stray bullet buffet f V rioting broke arol e out in victor cold monday afternoon while mass melting ing WM wes being held hd to dis cua the murder of 0 nonunion non union miners by means ot of an n infernal machine at ril dependence forty shots were fired lota into a crowd in the street one man was wag killed and six persons persona at least secretary clarence C hacian of the tha mine owners association a short hort address said 1 l want to hear benr what the boys in the iho mines have got to say about this trouble william hoskins a union minor miner from goldfield threw up lip his hand nod add shouted let me talk at this the crowd began to hiss hosking and cry put him bin out A free tor for all fight followed and shooting began most of the shots were directed skyward hoskins ml fell with a bullet in his body and the crowd scattered in every direction secretary hamlin hamdin alho ho tad bad been standing on a wagon kept on talking unmindful of the hailstorm of ballets that whizzed about his head R mcgee of victor who was instantly wiled killed bad been standing on an embankment thirty feet above the men who had been fighting and was in an innocent spectator A dispatch from denver says that adjutant general bell has been informed by telephone front from victor that an attack was mado made lato late monday mends Y afternoon on hIl miners ners union halt hall by a squad of soldiers major naylor sent guards to aid in quelling the disturbance tur bance on fourth street when tile the uniformed men into fourth street they were fired upon from houses on both sides of the street they returned the fire and raced oc on at double quick until they were near isline union hall ball at that point the mob had scattered and as the soldiers halted several shots were vore fired at them from the windows ot of the ball the doors of the building had bad been left open and a dozen guardsmen guardsman guards men fired into the hall ball as fast as they could work the mechanism ot of their rifles after a few volleys the order to take tahe tho the place by assault was given and they plunged in it was reported to general bell that a number of men were killed but none of 0 the guardsmen guardsman guards men were injured I 1 mondays outburst had bad its inception in the strike of the members ot of the western federation ot at miners something more than a year ago when men quit nult work for the purpose primarily prImar fly of enforcing an eight hour day this ahli action so incensed the mine owners that they hey de atoa at ar OA finla I 1 B d sut 1310 breach has grown w after r with the passage of time cons considerable sd demable lawless jess cs has prevailed ap lothe p the tl di ahr a tile lists it have been bee n brought to trial on u erous charges the were invariably latil I 1 acquitted however h I 1 |