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Show I I BLOODBHKO AT WARDNBR. t Mrlhrrt tlrrek lha llai kr Hill and Hal- ' Mean Mill II llli lljin,ll.- j Wanlner, prll 30 Wnrelner hot) been ttie aeetie of the wortt rlota alnee I the ftmdly labor war of IWii One man I dead another I thought to lie mortally wounded and property valued nt SxSOOisl ha been ileatruyeet by j giant powder ' the damage wnt done br union ' meu and )mpathlrer from lan)un ! Creek, about teve nty mile from W ant- tier 1 hi morning n mob of from sou ' to 1 ooo men nil nriuc-et and man) of them muskesl, tclrrel a train at llurke. the heud of tiiuyoii Creek I hero i wero nine box cart and a passenger conch, nn I tin y were block with the-mob the-mob fhc I Itltors brought with tlipiii 3,cHMi ronn It of giant ponder After a parley of two hours, Hit mashed men, iirmid with Winchesters, ttorled with ) ell for tho Hunker Hill and rliilltvnu mill and other building I a third ofa tnllo from the depot. Ihey ' tent picket ahead and one of tlictn picket tired a shot a a signal that the milt wat alutidoneel Thlt wan misunderstood b) tho main body of the looli who Imagined that thu lion-union lion-union miner In the mill had II red on them and they I cgan firing on their own picket. lxiul 1 00(1 shots evere thill exchanged ex-changed I elwern the rtotcra and their picket, and Inck Smith, one of tho plcketa, forme rl) of llrltlsh Columbia, and a noted llgure lu drill contests, waa abut dead the fatal error waa. dltiovrred nttcr a fiw tecondt' firing, and Smith a body wat brought down from the hillside lly tht tlmuthctlrlkirahal talieu possession of the Hunker Hill and Sullivan Sul-livan mill, which tiny found deserted, tie manager haling etlreetcil hit cm-plo)ccnol cm-plo)ccnol to risk their liven by battling bat-tling evlth the mob Pimdurwat called for, nud tlxty flftt pound boxet wero carried from the depot lo thu mill ! the heaviest charge wat placed among the machinery of tho mill Another charge waa plairel under the brick ufllee building Oiler charge wero placid uroun I the mill then tho bourdiug house, a frame atrutture, wat tired t use lea ling te thu charges wcrellghtrd anil the trlk trt, iarr)lug the dead body ot the ' picket, retired tou safe distance t At .' 3d p in tho Und. blast event off. ' It shook the groun I for miles, mil bulldlnirs In Wiirilurr, twomllcsawny, '.j treinblid U Intervultof about thirty t second four other charge went off, thu llfth being tho largrat, and com. I plctcl) demolished the mill P 'llice lost to tho Hunker Hill S. Sulll- '1 ran compan) I estimated from 3230,- 18 IKS) to 8300 000 1 Inn few mluiitea thu strikers event !j back to the station, tho whittle at- 1 blown for ttniggler. the mob toon 2 cllmlied nlinurtt, and at 3 o clink, Jutt 1 three hours after Ita arrival, tho train '; pulled out fur Can) on Creek. During thu fuslludo from the gun of the mob, -llui Clni) ne, a lluukcr Hilt & Mulllrnu nilllmin, wat severely ihot through the hips. It It reioi ted that he waa carrle I off by tho strikers, an I 1 hi wound I probably futal J, J. ' ltogcrt, a tteiiographcr In thu employ ot tho company, wat shot through the ' lip, but hi wound It trivial Tho non union men had warning ot the coining of the mob, and cacaped to the hllla 1 |
