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Show REIGN OF TERROR IN COLORADO An Infernal Mjchine Ib Eaploded Cripple Cr-i-k Dulrlct, a Number of Non Union Workmen Being Maaeacred. A cmn'i-aloii iii-anln. by mercy pulling a wire, exploded an Infnrnil machine, tlercby Inntnntly killltt eleven men und neverely woundfft nlnn othor4. one of whom hna alrjttt died, at Independence, Colo.. Monda. Mont of the killed and Injured wen Don-union minora employed on W Dlght eli in of the Flndlvy mine. The men tnel unit work at J a. I and were waiting to board 11" BUburban train on tho Florence t Cripple Crook railroad and return " their bonien In Cripple Creek and Vr- tor. Junt alter tl nglneer of On appronchltig train blow hla whlntto ta a algnal to the inlnern, according o enntom, a lorrlllc explonlon occurrd undernenih the depot platform on aal near which Iwentynli men we gathered. The platform wan blown Into apll-ra, apll-ra, tho ieHil wan wrecked and a ho twenty al fo-1 In circumference aid about aa many feet In depth wa ton In the ground. Frngmenta of bodla wore ruirlod through apnea for b-oral b-oral hundred f.-et and. Inter. wo picked tip Hf lit oulverfng. Home 'f the bullion dropped Into the pit rnao by tho rxphmlon. but heada, hiine. ear, legn. arum and trunka W4e atrown alnuit on all aldea ricco if flenh were found on bitlhllnga to feet away und blimd ntnlned erety-Uttng erety-Uttng within a rndlua nf fifty feet. Thn force of the explonlon waa IK throughout the camp and (he crh awakened everybody. Tho approaiV Ing train wan ntopped and thn tnn crow were th- flr..t men to reach an cone of the dliimter. They im Joined In n fi'M mlnuton by htimlrfla of pnr.mim. and relief work wna lo-gnn lo-gnn at once Thnt the ilbiliollcal crime m earefully hitch, d and dcllhcraMy porpetrolcd there la now not tie (hadnw of a doubt Two or three bin-dred bin-dred poutuW of powder waa explod!, prohnhly by n revolver attached to the wire, which mill renmlna !ra!g out from the nceno of thn explonlon. Street Riot Occur In Victor, In Which Twenty Men Ar Shot, an Innocent Spectator Being Killed by Stray Bullet. Hinting brokn out In Victor, Colo. Monday afternoon while man moot. Ing wnn being hold to dlnciin the murder mur-der of non-union minora by meanB of nn Infernal machine al Indepondence. Forty nhota were fired Into a crowd In the atreet. Ono man waa killed and nig pernonB, at leant. Injured, Secretary Secre-tary Clarence C. Hamlin of the Mine Ownera annoclallnn. concluding a nhnrt addrena, aald: "I want to hear what the hoya In the mine bay got to Bnr About thla trouble." William I'onklna. a union miner from (oldncln. threw up hla hand and ahnuted: "Let mo talk." At thla the crowd beenn tn hlas Hoa. klna nnd cry. "Put him out " A free-for-all fight followed and nhootlng be-gnn. be-gnn. Mont of the ahota wore directed nkywarrt Honklna fell with a bullet In hla body and the crowd scattered In every direction. Secretary Ilnmlln. who had been standing on a wagon, kept nn talking unmindful nf thn hailstorm nf bullet thnt whizzed about hla head. It. Mrflee of Victor, who was In-ntnntly In-ntnntly killed, hnd been Handing nn an embnnkment thirty foot Above the men who had been fighting and waa an Innocent spectator. A dlnpAtch from Denver aaya that Adjutant C.enernl Hell haa boon Informed In-formed by telepbnno from Victor thnt nn attack was made. Into Monday afternoon on Miners' lTnlon hall by a niiund of soldiers, Major Nnylor nent guards to nld In quelling th iHn-lurbnnce iHn-lurbnnce on Fourth nlreet. When tho uniformed men swung Into Fourth street they were fired upon from hnunofl on both sides of the street. They returned the flro and rneed on nt double quirk until they wore near Minora' Vnlnn hnll. At fhnt point the mob had scnttorrd end a the soldiers halted several shots were Mred at them from the windows of the hall. Tho doom of tho building hnd been left open and a dozen guardsmen fired Into thn hull aa fr.nt an they could work the mcehnnlnm of their rlfloa. After a few volleys tho order to tak the plnco by assault waa given and thoy plunged In. It was reported to General Gen-eral rtell that a number of men were Killed, but none of the guardsmen were Injured. Monday' outburst bud Its Inception Incep-tion In tho atrlko of tho members of the Western Federation of Miner something ninro than a year ago, when 4,uo0 men quit work for tho purpono. primarily, of enforcing an eight hour day. Thla action so Incensed In-censed tho mine ownera thut thoy declared de-clared a war on iinlonlnm. and tho breach haa grown wider w-lth the paH sngo of tlmo. ('onnldernblo lawless-nena lawless-nena haa prevailed In tho strlko-rlthlcn districts, and unionists have bi-en brought to trlnl nn numerous chnrgt.. They were Invariably acquitted, how-ever. |