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Show Revenge on the Railroad. Denveb, Colorado, December 30. This morning at 3 o'clock, three masked men entered the engine room of the Marshal Coal Company's works at Erie, on the Colorado Colo-rado Central Kailroad, forty miles from Denver, captured the engineer, took him several hundred yards away, tied him, then returned and set fire to all the coal on the dumps, hoisting works, engine house and tramway. Several cars of the railroad company com-pany were completely destroyed, as well as over $15,000 worth of property, throwing several hundred men out-of employment. Three weeks ago the wages of these men were out down, when the Knights of Labor ordered a strike. The miners, rather than be without work this time of the year, refused re-fused to obey. They continued working, and this morning's outrage is supposed to be another outcropping of the Bock Springs trouble instigated by the Knights of Labor and a few striking miners. |