LABOUR WAR IN AMERICA
FIGHTING AT CRIPPLE CREEK. ANOTHER EUREKA STOCKADE. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Oopyrig-t. (Received June 9th, 10.33 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 9. In connection with the Cripple Creek affair 200 sheriffs and deputies under General Bell had a. sanguinary encounter with 150 miners entrenched in the hills near Victor. Five Union miners were killed and fifteen captured, with a quantity of arms and ammunition. An explosion at Independence, on the Florence-Cripple Creek railway, killed sixteen persons and fatally injured nine nonunionist miners, who had just stopped work, and were awaiting the train to proceed home. The officials were confident that the outrage was premeditated, cs tlie dynamite was so placed under the platform that an incoming train must explode it. Near it was fixed a revolver connected by three hundred feet, of wire to adjacent cribbings. The end was fastened to a chair leg, which was used as a lever.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11916, 10 June 1904, Page 5
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