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Show i Ul- BUI It WAR OVER Oil MONTANA MINING CAMP S UNDER ARMED RULE AS A RESULT OF RIOTING. Seceders From Miners Union Attack Members During Parade and Carry Fight to Union H;ill Where They Demolish Furniture. Butte, Mont. This city was on Saturday Sat-urday virtually under armed ruie with its saloons, that have not be;t closed in years, except on election days, locked tight and with every Hardware store cleared of all its arms and ammunition by the police, as ne result of the series of riots during the day Miners' Union day the thir-ty-fourth anniversary of the establishment estab-lishment of the union in this camp. The Miners' union, with upward 0; 9,000 members, is divided against it self. More than two thousand men have refused to recognize the union further, furth-er, and under the leadership of agitators agitat-ors of the Industrial Workers of tie World, the seceders from the big organization Saturday morning attack, ed the miners' union parade, composed of more than half the labor bodies ot the city. President Bert Riley of the union the Parade Marshal Michael Conway were knocked from their horses by a volley of stones from the rioters. Other officers of the union were chased chas-ed from the line of march and took refuge in the sheriffs office at tie courthouse. The parade was broken up and the speaking exercises in the theater abandoned beciuse of the storm; street scenes, the rioters moved on the union hall in the center of the city. Every piece of furniture in the building was demolished and thrown into the streets. A piano was thrown down a stairw-iy; the books, records and two safes of the union were thrown out. The ballot boxes contain ing the 4,500 votes cast at the recent election of unio officers, which had not yet been counted, were destroyei and their contents emptied into the Alderman Frank Curran, acting mayor of the city, a Socialist, went tt the union hall to appeal to the rioters to disperse and was thrown from a second story window to the pavement. pave-ment. He was taken to the hospital severely injured. The mob did no: cease its 'work of destruction una even the carpets in the big assembly hall of the union had been torn from the floor and thrown into the street A crowd of 10,000 persons witnessed witness-ed the demonstration. Police and tb: sheriff's deputies were powerless Sheriff Driscoll went to the Miners union hall, but soon returned to h'- office in the court house when wr: came to him that union officerf W-taken W-taken refuge there and were asm', to be attacked by another section i the crowd. Order had practically been restore: Dn Sunday. Karly in the afternoon! crowd took two prisoners out of tls city jail and later took possession o! t aerial fire truck, which attempted t move through the crowd on a fa'-' alarm. The rioters climbed into It; machine, but, being unable to run t gave it back to the firemen. A delegation visited the three ne paper offices and demanded that m further mention be made derogator, to the I. W. W., and that the words "mob'' and "rioters'" not appear l any newspaper story. |