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Show LOOKS LIKE WAR, Blood is Made to Flow at Cripple Creek. MAYBE BUBNED TODaY. A Prominent Cozeyita at Topeka, Kansas, Kan-sas, Telia Why the Home Reserves are Organizad To Resist all National or State Troops. Cripple Crkek. May 25, Eleven men killed, with a strong probability that the number dead will be increased when all is kuown, is the record of the tirst day of trouble here, although real lighting has not yet b8ua, a3 the deputies dep-uties are awaiting reinforcements before be-fore beginning active operations. At 10 o'clocK this morning, eleven non-uuion men started work in the strong mine, on Battle mountain. Suorily afterward, a large party of strikers blew up the shaft house with powder, causing a loss of $25,000, and tUen dropped 100 pounds of giant pow der down the shaft, which was also exploded. ex-ploded. Killing all the inmates. When the deputies are finally massed and the two forces come together, a most desperate battle will doubtless be fought. The situation at 6 o'clock tonight, is one of most painml anxiety. JSoi a few believe the town will be a smouldering mass by another sunset, if the strikers oe not restrained. At Victor, Bix milles away, where tully 1,0! 0 people reside, a rein of ti-i-ror exists. Within half a mile of the corporate limits of the town, all day long, fully 30'J union miners, armed witn rifies, have paraded up and down the side ol thd hill. It is t-ad the strikers have planted, under their breasiwoiks on Bull Hill, a quantity of dynamite, with the in tentiou of blowing it up if it should be taken and occupied by ihe deputies. One of the largest mine owners in Colorado Springs is autnority for the statement that the mine owners have planted a rifle cannon on a hill commanding com-manding the breastworks, and that it will be used to dislodge the strikers from that position. All telephone communication has been broken, and it is feared the telegraph tele-graph wires will go next. The deputies depu-ties from Denver have withdrawn to a less rxposed position, where they will await reinforcements. It is raining furiously, and any farther far-ther move tonight it not looked for. Deputies have been coming in quietly all day, and it is thought an unexpected un-expected move is anticipated. It is euttd on gooc1 authority, that Governor Waite is in sympathy with the strikers, and that he wiil tomorrow tomor-row issue a proclamation against the deputies and call out the militia and attach at-tach and disarm them. WHAT HOME RESERVES ARE TOR. Toi'EKA, Kans., May 25 At a "home gurd" meeting in the populist league rooms here, G. C. Clemens said. "1 do not hesitate to sav that one d the objects 1 dad in view when lad vocated the raising ol 'home guards' was to have a force available so that in ,-ase the troops or the national guard are called out to stop commonw ealers anywhere west of the Mississippi river we can Etop the trcor s or national guards.-" |