Show REIGN OF TERROR IN COLORADO an infernal mach ne Is exploded in cripple creek district a number of non un on workmen being massacred A concealed assassin by merely pulling a wire exploded an intel nal thereby instantly killing eleven men and severely wounding nine others one of whom has since llred at independence colo monday most of the killed and injured were nonunion miners employed on the night shift of the findley mine the men had quit work at 2 a m and were waiting to board ohp suburban train on the florence cripple creek railroad and return to their homes in cripple creek and vie tor just after the engineer of the approaching train blew his whistle as a signal to the miners according to custom a terrific explosion occurred underneath the depot platform on and near which twenty six men were gathered the platform was blown into splint ers the depot was wrecked and a hole twenty six feet in circumference and about as many feet in depth was torn la the ground fragments of bodies were hurled through space for sev eral hundred feet and later were picked up still quivering some of the bodies dropped into the pit made by the explosion but heads hands ears legs arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides pieces of flesh were found on buildings feet away and blood stained every thing within a radius of fifty feet the force of the explosion was felt the camp and the crash awakened everybody the approach ing train was stopped and the train crew were the first men to reach the scene of the disaster they wee joined in a few minutes by hundreds of persons and relief work was begun at once that the diabolical crime was carefully hatched and deliberately perpetrated there is now not the shadow of a doubt two or three bun dred pounds of powder was exploded probably by a revolver attached to the wire which still remains leading out from the scene of the PEABODY SUSTAINED state supreme court says he has right to imprison un on men the state supreme court of colorado has refused the application for a writ of habeas corpus for charles president of the western federation of miners who Is held as a military prisoner at dellunde Tel lunde by order of governor james H the governors action in declaring martial law in san miguel county im poisoning prison ing mover and other union men on the ground that they had incited insurrection and suspend ing the ant of habeas corpus and ig nonig the authority of the local courts as seems necessary to him in maintaining law and order Is sus talked according to the decision the gov arnor has sole power to determine when a state of insurrection exists in any county of the district the courts have no power to interfere with his exercise of this prerogative the governor has the right to use the of the state to suppress insurrection he has alo the power to order the imprisonment and killing of in if in his opinion that ex tremley is necessary he can detain military prisoners until he decides that the insurrection s quelled the courts of the state have no ight to interfere with the military and their handling 0 prisoners street R ot occurs n actor 1 wh ci twenty men are shot cn innocent spectator be ng killed by stray bullet rioting broke out in V actor colo monday afternoon while a mass dept ing was being held to d escuss the mur der of non union miners by means of an infernal mach ne at independence forty shots were fired into a acrond in the street one man was 1 billed and six persons at least ired secre tary clarence hamlin of the mine owners association concluding a choit address said I 1 want to hear what the boys in the mines have got to say about this trouble william hoskins a union bluer from goldfield threw up his hand and shouted let me talk at this the crowd began to hiss hos kins and cry put ham out A tree tor all fight followed and shooting began most of the shots were directed skyward hoskins fell with a bullet in his body and the crowd scattered in every direction secretary hamlin who had been standing on a 1 ept on talking unmindful of the hailstorm of bullets that whizzed about his head R mcgee of victor who was in scantly killed had been standing on an embankment thirty feet above the men who bad been fighting and was an innocent spectator A dispatch from denver says that adjutant general bell has been in formed by telephone from victor that an attack was made late monday afternoon on miners union hall by a squad of soldiers major naylor sent guards to aid in quelling the dis tur bance on fourth street when the uniformed men swung into fourth street they were fired upon from houses on both sides of the street they returned the fire and raced on at double quick until they were near mine union hall at that point the mob had scattered and as the soldiers halted several shots were fired at them from the windows of the hall the doors of the building had been left open and a dozen guardsmen fired into the hall as fast as they could worl the mechanism of their rifles a few volleys the order to take the place by assault was given and they plunged in it was reported to gen eral bell that a number of men were killed but none of the guardsmen were injured s bad its inception in the strike of the members of the western federation of miners something more than a year ago when 4 men quit work for the purpose primarily of enforcing an eight hour day this action so in censed the mine owners that they de dared a war on unionism and tho breach has grown wider with the pas sag of time considerable lawless ness has prevailed in the strike ridden districts and unionists have been brought to trial on numerous charges they were invariably acau eted how ever BLOWN INTO ETERNITY death deal ng on n D st illery at peona illinois ten men were killed six injured 30 barrels of whisky destroyed and 3 cattle burned to death in an explosion at the plant of the corn ing distillery company at peona ills saturday afternoon shor ly after 4 clod the immense warehouse in which the explosion occurred was completely destroyed and three other buildings were gutted by the flames the property loss aggregates 1000 so far it Is thought that the death list will be increased the corning distillery plant is the second largest in the world the czars commanders at port art hur are between two f res |