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SSeushTd183, VOIi. L.IV. NO. 150 INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 190 1 TWELVE PAGES. PRICK 2 CENTS. I CN nvf5s'S.AIN3
KILLS THREE
REIGN OFTERRORAND WAR AGAIN ST
THE MILITIA FOLLOW A DYNAMITE
OUTRA GE IN CRIPPLE CREEK CAMP
EMBALMS BOD ES OFT
HIS OWN LIFE
CHILDREN
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AND
ENDS
Horrible Crime of a Former Un
dertaker, Who Also Tries to
Kill a Fourth Child.
NOTIFIES THE CORONER
After Poisoning" Two of His Little
Girls and Preparing Them
for Burial.
WAITS FOR THE POLICE
Then Shoots Another Girl,
Wounds a Son and Puts a
Bullet in Himself.
ROSELLE. N. J., June 6. After killing
three of his children and wounding a
fourth, Joseph M. Pouch, at one time an
undertaker, shot himself through the head
to-day and died lu a few moments.
Pouch lived In a little cottage with his
four children. Yesterday he shot two of
them and embalmed their bodies. He'took
the other two to an upper room with him.
Meanwhile, he had mailed a warning to
County rhysiclan Wescott, who, upon re
ceipt of the letter, notified the police.
When the officials knocked at the door of
the Pouch cottage to-day Pouch shot and
killed his little daughter and wounded his
sole remaining son. He then shot himself
and died as the police forced- an entrance.
The boy will recover. Pouch Is believed
to have been insane.
Pouch, who wa3 about fifty-two years old,
was thj sou of a wealthy undertaker in
Brooklyn. When the elder Pouch died some
years ügo he Is said to have left his entire
estate to a brother of the central figure in
to-day's tragedy. This fact is believed to
have made Pouch morose. He had been
twice married. The first wife obtained a
divorce and has been remarried. His sec
ond wife died two months ago. Her death
caused Pouch to become more despondent.
GHEWSOME SIGHT.
The letter to County Physician Westcott
was mailed this morning. It informed the
doctor that he should proceed to Pouch's
hous-e, as "there was something doing in his
line." Dr. Westcott notified Marshal Hen
nesey, who, with Policeman Minney, went
to the Pouch home. When they knocked at
the front door there was a few seconds of
silence, and then three shots wereheard
in the front room upstairs. The two offi
cers broke down the front door and went
upstairs, where they came upon the body
of Pouch. He was still breathing, but died
In a few seconds. The room was lighted,
and In the far corner the police found Al
bert Pouch, ten years of age, with a bullet
In his right side. He was alive, but uncon
scious. Albert was hurried to a hospital,
where the bullet was extracted. His
chances of recovery are- excellent. Beside
him lay the oead body of his slater Miunie,
five years old. She had been shot in the
breast. '
The police In exploring the house forced
entrance into a rear room on the first
ßoon. There they found laid out. t.s if by
an undertaker, the white-clad corpses of
two other little Kills. They were Lillian.
aged seven years, and Grace, aged eight
een months. ' Their mouths were burned
with carbolic acid, and on their throats
were the marks of fingers, showing that
besides having the poison poured into their
mouths by their father they had been
ciioked. A physician said they had been
dead at least twenty-four hours.
Albert said, after recovering conscious
ness at the hospital, that Sunday morning
his father took his two sisters, Lillian and
Grace, Into the room where their bodies
were found, and sent Minnie and himself
to the upper part of the house. Albert
never saw Lllilan and Grace again, and
does not yet know their fate. He says his
father told him he had locked them in the
back room. Albert and MInlne remained
locked in the front room Sunday after
noon and night and all of to-day. Most
of the time their father was with them.
Albert says that he and his sister were
seated In a corner this evening. He thinks
his sister was asleep, leaning against him,
when there was a rapping on the front
door. His father than rose from his chair
and shot them both.
WOMAN FILES SUIT
FOR $50,000,000
Mrs. Greenough Says That
Amount Is Due Her as Royalties
on Oil Refining Process.
BOSTON, June 6. The declaration and writ
in the suit for JOO.ono.GOO against New York
defendants were filed in the Supreme Court
late to-day. Mrs. Elizabeth Greenough,
, widow and administratrix of the estate of
Benjamin Greenough, has brought suit
against Henry II. Rogers, of the Standard
Oil Company, and Mary M. Pratt and oth
ers, trustees under the will of the late
Charles Pratt, of New York. Mrs. Green
ough claims that she is entitled to royalties
for the use of a process for rendering crude
or refined petroleum, and names $ö0,00ö.0u0
as the amount which is due her. The recipe
Is alleged to have been the property of Mrs.
Gwnough's husband.
Service of the writ has been obtained on
Mr. Rogers, but none of the other defend
ants has yet been served.
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MEDICAL STUDENTS
DISPOSED OF BODY
Police at Knoxville Believe They
Have Solved a Supposed
Murder Mystery.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. June 6. Develop
ments to-day connected with the finding of
a dismembered female body in the Tenens
see river Sunday go to show that the police
theory of the job being the work of med
ical students is the correct one. J. E.
Henderlight, a farmer residing near Boyd"s
Bridge, five miles above Knoxville. reported
to the police to-day havi.ig seen two men
drive on to th bridge last Friday night at
11 o'clock. When near the center of
the structure th men dumped a box Into
the river. Physicians who have examined
the remains believe that the body has b-en
under direction, but why this method of
dispofing of it they cannot explain
DRAGGED TO DEATH
UNDER A STREET CAR
NEW YORK, June 6. Frank J. O'Connor
was killed and Harry Scott probably fatal
ly Injured at Coney Island to-day by the
ttarting of a trolley train while the men
were underneath a car. They had Just
completed ome necessary repairs .when
some one gave the starting signal. Before
the motorman's attention could be attract
ed and the train stopiod the low-lying mo
tor had ground O'Connor to death In the
right of several hundred persons standing
beside the tracks. By clinging to a chain
on the front of the car Scott saved himself
from Immediate death, but was dragged
seventy-five feet over the rough roadbed
and thrown against the iron front of the
notor.
COUNCIL
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Sum of $25,000 Originally Asked,
but Measure Unanimously Passed
Provides for $20,000.
MEETING LONG AND BUSY
Virginia Avenue to Be Paved and
Black Arts Taxed Gasper
. and Sunday Baseball.
The City Council took a giant stride last
night toward disposing of some of the
numerous ordinances which have been
hanging fire in committees during the past
few weeks, among them the important
measure providing for City Hospital re
pairs. The. session was one of the bjslest
of the year as-well as one of the longest,
and much 'ground was covered, six ordi
nances being passed.
. Ordinances passed provided, in brief, for
the paving of Virginia avenue, from Ste
vens street to Prospect street; for the ap
propriation of 520,000 for the repair of the
City Hospital; for the appropriation of
$25,000 to be used in the. repair of streets,
sewers and bridges; for the licensing of
persons practicing fortune telling, operat
ing merry-go-rounds and similar amuse
ments, and conducting slot machines, such
as graphophones, biographs, keneloscopes,
etc., and granting permission for the laying
of two side tracks across Columbia avenue
and Lewis street.
The ordinance which provides for the
appropriation of $20,000 to be used in the
repair of the City Hospital, upon which
there has been so much agitation, was
passed by the unanimous vote of the
Council. The original request, setting
forth the needed repairs and their esti
mated costs, was for $25.000, but the mayor,
who drew up the ordinance, concluded,
after careful investigation, that $20,000 will
be sufficient to cover the needed repairs
for this year. The item of $25,000 included
repairs to the lawns and the grounds about
the hospital, which it was believed could
rest this year.
An ordinance introduced by Coimcllman
Gasper proposes to repeal a section of ordi
nance No. 7, lSlni, which prohibits Sunday
baseball in any of the parks of the city.
The ordinance has never been enforced.
Gasper's ordinance proposes to make the
games lawful if the consent of the park su
perintendent is given. An effort was made
to suspend the rules and pass the ordi
nance at last night's session, but objection
was made, and President Billingsley re
ferred the measure to the committee on
public morals.
The ordinance asking for an appropria
tion of lia.ouo to be. used in the cleaning of
Pogue's run was defeated, the finance
committee excluding the item in its report
recommending appropriations for strert and
frewer improvement. A minority report was
made on the issue, but it was laid on the
table by a vote of 12 to 7. The original
ordinance provided for an appropriation of
1100.000, of which $19,000 was to be used on
Pogue's run and g,0u) on the repair of
bridges. The finance committee amended
the ordinance so as to cut down the amount
to $23.000. specifying that it be used on the
repair of sewers, streets and bridges.
An ordinance was passed instructing the
Board of Works to go ahead with "the Im
provement of Virginia avenue from the
ttrst alley north of Stevens street to the
first alley south of Prospect street by lay
ing asphalt pavement.; Resident property
owners have made a hard right against the
improvement. Several remonstrances were
filed and hearings were held, and the Board
of Works finally referred the matter to the
Council.
One of the most unique ordinances passed
oy the present City Council was that licens
ing the occupations of persons practicing
fortune-telling and like "black arts" and
those conducting amusement machines.
The ordinance fixes a fee of $50 a year on
all persons practicing astrology, palmistry,
phrenology, fortune-telling, cartomancy,
clairvoyance, crystal-gazing, hypnotism,
mediumship or necromancy.
On those who operate a merry-go-round,
Ferris wheel, roller coaster, switchback,
etc., "the ordinance fixes an annual tax of
$25. The annual tax on talking and picture
machines, such as phonographs, gvapho
phones, keneloscopes, : biographs or pro
jectoscupes. is 25 cents, except where there
are four or less machines, in which case
the annual fee is II. For violation of this
ordinance the fine will be equal to one
month's license fee, and each following
violation will constitute a separate ofTfnse.
An ordinance drawn; by City Controller
Dunn was introduced asking for an appro
priation of 12.UO0 to be used in the printing
and binding of the city ordinances, which
have Just been recodified by Attorney W.
V.. Thornton and Judge E. A. Brown. The
measure was referred to the finance com
mittee. An ordinance providing for the an
nexation of a tract of land lying just out
Mde Thirtieth street was also introduced.
The land will be largtly benefited by the
Thirtieth-street sewcrund unless the tract
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WITH
REDUCED APPROPRIATION
Boil Your Water.
EX-
FORCED TO PAY RANSOM
Former Executive Is Compelled to
Treat with Abductors
of a Gown.
TO GIVE UP TWENTY-FIVE
The Morocco crisis growing out of the
kidnaping by Moorish brigands of the
American, Perdicaris, was temporarily
overshadowed in Indianapolis yesterday by
the announcement that ex-Mayor Book
waiter, as the victim of a bold abduction,
had been scared Into offering to pay ran
som without waiting for the aid or consent
of any foreign nation.
The crime was committed in Washington
street in the full glare of a midday sun and
under the eyes of hundreds of people
thronging the shopping district, and, dazed
by the audacity of the deed, Mr. Book
waiter cast from him all thought of punish
ment and hurriedly announced his willing
ness to pay the brigands tribute. His
eagerness to meet the demands ofthe ma
rauders was given expression in the fol
lowing open letter:
"To Wrhom It May Concern:
"My daughter's graduating dress was
taken from my phaeton in front of Was
son's yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. This
garment cannot be of use to any one else,
but, as It must be used by us Wednesday
evening, I will pay $25 to the person re
turning it to me at the Gem Garment Com
pany, 700 Century building, before Wednes
day evening, and I will guarantee that no
questions will be asked.
"CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER."
The gown thus taken was to have been
worn by Mr. Bookwalter's daughter. Miss
Hazel, when she is graduated from Tudor
Hall to-morrow evening. There was no
possibility of having another lace and silken
cre.ation ready In time for the event, In
dianapolis is too far from the coast for the
possibility of aid from battleships, the pres
ent degree of police-force efficiency Is not
such as to promise relief and thus it was
that the former chief executive of the city
was forced to throw up his hands and make
ransom terms.
' Mr. Bookwalter last night positively de
clined to discuss the possible results grow
ing out of the establishing of so dangerous
a precedent, but Justified his policy by urg
ing the Importance of graduations . and
gowns from a young woman's viewpoint,
and by calling attention to the fact that
he "is a peace-loving and domestically In
clined man with a yearning for a happy
home.
Recalcitrant Councilman Sent to Jail.
RICHMOND. Va.. June 6. John T. West,
councilman from Madison ward, was to
day sent to jail by Judge S. B. Witt, of
the Hustings court, because he declined to
give the grand Jury the name of a man who
offered him $100 to stay away from a certain
meeting of the street committee. . The par
ticular meeting referred to is supposed to"
have concerned recent asphalt paving con
tracts. OREGON REPUBLICANS
WON BY 1 0,000 PLURALITY
Both Candidates for Congress and
Moore for Supreme Court
Judge Are Elected.
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CONCEDED BY DEMOCRATS
PORTLAND, June 6. Republicans carried
the State in to-day's elections. Binger
Herrmau, of Roseburg, the Republican can
didate for Congress in the First district,
probably carried the district over R. M.
Veatch, Democrat, by from 5,000 to 7,000.
John H. Williamson, of Prineville, the Re
publicau candidate in the Second district,
will carry the district by probably lO.OuO
over J. E. Simmons, Democrat.
At 10 o'clock to-night Frank C. Baker,
chairman of the State Republican commit
tee, said: "1 predict that Herrman's ma
jority will be 7,500 and Williamson's 10.A"0.
Jud.tje Frank A. Moore, the Republican can
didate for state supreme Judtre, will re
ceive a majority of 20.000."
At Democratic headquarters it was said
that, while Republican estimates are in
excess of actual figures, there is no doubt
that the Republicans carried the State.
Ilunnrvny Boy Is Caught.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LOG ANS PO RT. Ind.. June 6.-Herschel
Buckntr, seventeen years old. was arrested
by the local police early Sunday morning.
Just one hour after notice had been re
ceived from his lather, H. S. Buckner, su
perintendent of the poor farm at Franklin,
Ind., that the boy had run away and would
pass through here. H rschel had started
for Benton Harbor, llv said he was tired
of living on the farm and wauted to earn
hU own way out in. the world. His father
arrived here to-day and took him borne.
MAYOR
BOOKWALTER
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HER TIRED HUSBAND
Daughter of Levi P. Morton Does
Not Propose to Be Outwitted
by Mother-in-Law.
LATTER ASKS THE POPE
To Annul Marriage on Ground of
No Issue, and the Duchess
Appeals to the Courts.
PARIS, June 6. In consequence of dif
ferences between the Duke and Duchess of
Valencay, steps have been taken to dis
solve the marriage. The duchess was Helen
Morton, a daughter of Levi P. Morton, of
New York. It is learned in authoritative
quarters to-day that the duke's mother,
having asked the sanction of the Pope for
an annulment on the ground that the mar
riage had been without issue, the duchess
has applied to the civil courts for a legal
dissolution, the grounds being withheld for
the present.
The duke, who is a scion of the ancient
and princely house of Tallyrand-Sagan, is
at his magnificent chateau on the Loire.
The duchess is in Paris at the family resi
dence adjacent to the' Boulevard Ste. Ger
maine. She Is in constant communication
with her father, who has been here for
some time. Close friends have long realized
that an estrangement had taken place, for
the duke stayed out oJ the city at his
chateau, while the duchess remained in
Paris.
Thus far only members of the two fam
ilies and their intimate friends are aware
of the steps that have been taken.
TROOPS LEAKE HANGING
ROCK; QUIET REIGNS
IRONTON, O., June 6. The strike situa
tion at the Rogers-Brown Company's fur
nace at Hanging Rock has improved to such
an extent that Sheriff Payne to-day asked
for the removal of the four companies of
the Seventh Regiment which were sent to
the scene of the trouble last Wednesday.
The troops departed this afternoon for their
respective homes. A half dozen deputy
sheriffs have been sworn in and are now
on duty In the village. Officers of the
Rogers-Bronn Company to-day offered a re
ward of $503 for Information that will lead
to the arrest and conviction of the person
who shot Superintendent Jeffries on the
evening of May 31.
IDENTITY OFTHE MURDER
SÜSPECTJTILL A SECRET
Theories of the Killing of Sarah
Schäfer Not Supported by
Tangible Evidence.
STEPHENSON IS AT WORK
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind., June 6. If the grand
Jury discovered any new clew that gives
promise of leading to the identity of the
murderer of Miss Sarah Schäfer It is being
very carefully guarded. There are many
theories, each one being different; yet they
are all alike In one respect they are not
based on a known fact, and do not work out
successfully. Many persons have faith
that sooner or later it will be known who
killed Miss Schäfer. Deputy Prosecutor
Stephenson Is doing all in his power to un
ravel the mystery and will devote all his
spare time from now on to the reconven
ing of the grand jury. July 11, In collecting
evidence, and he will place all facts learned
before the jury when It meets again. Should
it become necessary, he states, he will call
a board of Inquiry before the mayor and
bring all Important witnesses before It.
Feeling is still bitter .gainst James Mc
Donald, who was found not guilty of the
murder. It is said he has been warned to
leave the community. McDonald denies the
report that he was visited by a party of
about twelve men at midnight Sunday,
but rumor says a lj?ilance committee told
him to seek safety in flißht. McDonald
stayed at the home of his mother-in-law
to-ulght. It is not likely any arrests in
the case will be made without a grand Jury
Indictment.
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JAMES II. PEABODY.
Governor of Colorado. Where Lawlessness 1
Rife.
PAR ENTS SAY WEffl
OF GIRL'S DEATH
BE CLEARED IN
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Demand of Mr. and Mrs. Monks
Followed by Rigid Investi-
gation at Muncie.
LEE IS HELD IN JAIL
Fate of Young Woman's Lover
Will Be Determined by Re
port of Chemist.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind., June 6. Demanding to
be satisfied beyond a doubt that their
daughter did not meet her death by foul
play, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Monks, of Dale
ville, have caused a rigid investigation of
the facts concerning Artie Monks's death
to be begun. This afternoon, before I.
II. Gray, Justice of the peace, acting coro
ner, the inquest was started. Twenty
witnesses have been summoned and fifteen
were examined to-day. The investigation
is beins made behind closed doors. An
analysis of the contents of the stomach
was begun this afternoon by Charles
Prutzman. a local chemist. Mr. Trutzman
stated that he had not yet found any
traces of poison in the stomach this even
ing. Meanwhile Solomon Lee, the suspected
murderer of the young girl and her pro
fessed lover, who quarreled with her on the
night just preceding her fatal illness, is
confined in the Delaware county jail, await
ing the result of the inquest. Lee is hope
ful, though much chagrined at the plight he
is in. He maintains his Innocence. Since
brooding over the matter, in his lonely cell,
his old love for the girl seems to have as
serted Itself, and he spoke of her with tears
In his eyes this evening.
The whole case depends on the result of
the analysis of the contents of the stomach,
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which will not be completed until to-mor-row.
If poison is found then Lee will be
held ,on the charge of murder. The girl
was always of a cheerful disposition, was
never known to brood over anything and
her parents say it is certain that she would
not willingly end her own life.
If poison ended -her young life. It is be
lieved it was administered by a hand other
than her own. If nothing is found in the
stomach, Lee will be dismissed at once. A
strong point for Lee is the fact that the
girl was known to have attacks
of nervous prostration. She had
tried many kinds of medicine for
these attacks, but had found but one
that would ever relieve her. That was at
her home in Daleville and could not be ad
ministered her Sunday morning. The girl's
mother suffered a similar attack of nerv
ous trouble while in a local lawyer's of
fice, as a result of worry over financial com
plications. Iwo of the three local physicians who at
tended Miss Monks claim that she was suf
fering with nervous prostration and taat It
could easily have been brought on by the
quarrel with her lover. She was known
to have been devotedly attached to Lee and
often expressed her love for him to her girl
friends.
The greatest Interest is being taken here
and at Daleville in the case.
A touching tribute will be paid to the
memory of the pretty young girl by her sis
ter operators of the Central Union tele
phone exchange, who will go to Daleville in
a body to attend the funeral on Tuesday
afternoon. The body will be brought to
Muncie on a special interurban car for
burial.
SLAYS TWO PERSONS AND
THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF
Jealous Husband Kills Wife and
Brother-in-Law and Attempts
Suicide.
MURDERER
IS
DYING
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANS VI L1.E, Ind., June 6. At Maunee,
111., a small town on the Wabash river, this
afternoon, John Robinson, a mussel-shell
digger, aged twenty-seven, murdered his
wife and brother-in-law, Shelby Atterbury,
a farmer, aged forty-three, and then fatally
wounded himself. Atterbury, who was a
farmer, came to town to spend the . day
with Rcbinson. The men went to Robin
sou's home. While seated In the front room
Robinson was heard by his wife in the rear
of the house to remark that he was going
to kill the whole family. She rushed into
the room and saw Robinson raise a pistol.
Robinson stepped to her side and shot her
In the temple. Atterbury darted out of the
house and Robinson followed him to the
door and fired, the ball entering his back.
He died in a few seconds. Robinson then
shot himself and Is dying. Jealousy is sup
posed to have prompted the deed. The men
had been ürinking neaviiy all day.
Confederate 3IemorlaI Day.
BALTIMORE. June 6.-Confederate Me
morial day was observed here to-day. The
veterans of the Confederate Home near
thl city and other Southern soldiers
marched to Luden Park Cemetery, where
the desul are buritd and strewed tha graves
with flowers. The society of the Daughters
of the Confederacy strewed with flowers
the graves . of ihe Confederates in all the
cUar cemeteries.
UST
HOUR
Fifteen Men are Boivn Into Pieces or Shot Dead ana
a Score Wounded at Findey and Victor,
Co, j Yesterday and Last Nigit
DEADLY INFERNAL MACHINE
Is Exploded Under Nonunionists and Thirteen Art
AlangedSodicrs and Unionists Fighting at
VictorMass Meeting Culminates in a Riot
nnWF.n, Cnl.. June :. A reiKii of terror, lirnnjtlit on a diabolical
ilyuiintitinK plot, followed by riot in: mid nn asunult upon the militia ex
1st! in tlie Cripple Creek mininK lltrlft to-night. Armril men throng the
street imtl conflicts nre of hourly occurrence. 3IIlltlnnicn nre marching?
hither mul thither, ninklnur nrreatN ly wholesale. A number of union
ininerM linve been placed in the military 'bull pen and others are belnff
grathercri In at freuuent Interval.
City and county official have been comp lied to res Ism their ofllce be
cause of their reputed sympathy. Am near an can be estimated to-nlRht
fifteen nre tlend nnd a score or more Injured ns n reanlt of the
events lending op to the conditions above described.
Beginning with this morning, when nn infernnl machine, set ander
the station at 1'indley, on the line of the Florence & Cripple Creek lln ti
ro nd, was touched off and n number of nonunion men who were waiting: for
a. train were killed and others horribly mangled, erenti followed thick and
fast. They culminated in n riot nt n mass meeting, where bullets flew
nnd two were killed nnd several Injured.
Later a company of military marching: past union headquarters,
pursuing; their search for union miners, were fired upon, according to re-
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ports, from men concealed In Union Hall. The soldiers stormed the build- t
infc, and from Inst accounts nt least four unionists were sererely wounded.
The remainder fled precipitately. The soldiers who were unhurt pursued
and arrested a number of the fleeins men, nnd continued far Into the
ntgjtt to scour the conntry In search of men supposed to liare been in
Union Hall at the time of the assault.
At the headquarters of Adjutant General Bell In this city eTerythlns;
Is In readiness to. promptly meet n call for additional troops in the old
camp. ' It is understood that the railroads hnre been Instructed to hare
engines and cars ready, and n quick run to Cripple Creek would follow
an appeal for more soldiers.' However, from the tone of n. eom muni ca
tion received from Sheriff Bell, the newly appointed officer of Teller conn
ty, he will only ask for further tld from the military as n. last resort. lle
intimates that he can control the situation unless n general clash of op.
posInK interests ocenrs. To-day's outburst lind Its inception In the strike
of the members of the Western Federation of Miners something over a
year a&o, when 4.000 men quit work for the pnrpose, primarily, of en
forcing an elffht-honr day. This action so Incensed the mine owners that
they declared a war on unionism, nnd the breach has grown wider with
the passage of time. Much lawlessness has prevailed In the strike-ridden
districts, and unionists have been brought to trial on numerous charges.
They were invariably acquitted, howeTer.
COLORADO SPIUXGS, Col., June 7. A special from Victor lo the Cnretfe
at mldnisht says: At 1S:30 this mornlnwr the streets of Victor were still
thronged with people and the excitement iram high. Sheriff Hell seems to
have secured control of the situation at this hour, but the tension Is so
high that nny little thing might cause an outbreak. A rumor that SheMnt
Hell bad been shot proved to lie untrue. He has sworn in over threr hun
dred deputies and has made 17JS arrests.
DYNAMITE OUTRAGE
AT RAILWAY STATION
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Col., June 6. More
than a scorn of persons were killed and
wounded as an outcome of lawlessness
near here to-day.
A dastardly dynamite plot, executed with
murderous purposes, early this morning
resulted in the blowing up of twenty-six
nonunion miners, of whom thirteen were
killed and seriously Injured.
This afternoon, at Victor, several men
were shot down while the streets were
thronged by excited miners. Later the
militia. In self-defense, fired into the union
miners' hall and killed at least, four men.
It was rumored that Sheriff Bell also was
shot,' but this report later was denied. All
Victor is in a. ferment and every man is
armed. The mines have closed down and
the militia has been called out. Officers
have resigned and others have been named.
Conditions border on anarchy, and the 5,000
armed miners may become involved in a
battle at any time. ,
THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.
The dynamite outrage was a dastardly,
murderous plot. Thirteen men were killed
by the explosion of an infernal machine at
the railroad station in Independence early
this morning, and eight others were seri
ously injured. Eleven men were killed out
right and two died later from wounds. All
the killed and injured, with the exception
of two men from the Deadwood mine,
were nonunion miners employed on the
nlglit shift of the Findley mine. The men
had quit work at 2 a. m. and were waiting
to board a suburban train on the Florence
& Cripple Creek Railroad and return to
their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor.
Just after the engineer of the approaching
train blew hU whistle as a signal to the
miners, according to custom, a terrific ex
plosion occurred underneath the station
platform, on and near which twenty-six
men were gathered. The platform was
blown into splinters, the station was
wrecked, and a hole twenty feet in circum
ference and about as many feet in depth
was torn in the ground. Fragments of
bodies were hurled through space for sev
eral hundred feet, and later were picked
up still quivering.
Some of the bodies dropped into the pit
made by the explosion, but heads, hands.
ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn
about on all side3. Pieces of flesh were
found on buildings C00 feet away and blood
stains everywhere within a radius of fifty
feet. The force of the explosion was felt
throughout the camp and the crash awak
ened everybody. The approaching train was
stopped and the train crew were the first
men to reach the "scene of the disas-tt-r.
They were joined in a few minutes by hun
dreds of persons and relief work was be
gun at once. A special train was f-ent from
Cripple Creek carrying physicians, nurses,
officers and many others, but when It
reached Independence the Injured had al
ready been placed on board the suburban
train and removed to the hospital in Victor.
The mangled bodies of the dead, pieced to
gether as well as possible, were removed to
the coroner's office.
THE CASUALTIES.
Following is the list of the dead:
GUS AUSGUSTINE. aged fliteen; has a
brother living in Janesville, Wis.
ARTHUR MUHLEISE. aged thirty-three;
relatives in Germany.
HENRY HAAG, formerly of Leadvllle.
ALEXANDER M'LANH, Leadvillc.
CHARLES E. BARBER.
. HERBERT M COY.
J. II. HARTS ELL.
A
L. S. SHANKLIN. 1
E. KELSO, married.
V. W. DELANEY.
EDWARD ROSS.
ROBERT SINCLAIR.
E. H. JOHNSON, formerly of Little
Horse, Wyo.
The Injured.
JOHN COLLINS, both legs amputated.
ED HOLLAND, right leT amputated.
DAN GAINEY, right leg amputated.
A. H. ALLEN, both legs fractured.
PHIL CHANDLER,
J. A. BROOKER.
JOHN POLICE.
CLARENCE ALLEN.
Amputation has been performed upon a
number of the wounded, but It Is almost
certain that several of these will die. A
maj3rity of the dead and wounded were
single men, but several h.d families living
in the district.
Charles Rector, of the Shurtloff mine, es
caped by a miracle. He was chatting with
several men. unconscious of danger, when
the explosion occurred. He saw a number
of men rushing toward the station and at
this moment he was lifted from his feet
and was deafened by a terrible crash. "When
he realized what had occurred he was sur
prised to find himself uninjured.
E. W. Vanatte, one ol the Findlay min
ers, who had a remarkable escape from
death, in describing the explosion, said:
"The earth seemed to heave under the plat
form and station and the noise made was
deafening. We had been at the station
about two minutes when the explosion
occurred. I was thrown through the air
about seventy-five feet. There were about
twenty-five men on the platform and most
of them were nonunion miners who worked
on the Findley. The Shurtloff chift had
not yet reached the station, but was hur
rying down the hilL Had these men
reached the platform, tKe causualty list
would have been doubled. There must hava
been 300 pounds of powder used, and it
must have been set off by an electric park
or a revolver, as the miners would have
smelled the fuse if one had been used."
George Remlck was hurled many feet
from the platform, but escaped with only
a few bruises, although heavy timbers and
rocks fell all about him.
THE INFERNAL MACHINE.
The infernal machine with which the
diabolical work was don? consisted of a
quantity of dynamite, estimated at 100 to
3w pounds, a loaded revolver and a long,
slender steel wire attached to the trigger.
The revolver was fastened so that tho
pulJlng of the trigger would not draw it
away. The wire ran from under the sta
tion to the cribbing of th Delmonico prop
erty, about four hundred feet away, wheru
its end was fastened to a rung of a chair.
The dynamite was placed close to the
muzzle of the revolver, which was dis
charged by pulling the wire when the en
gineer blew his whistle. The ball from the
revolver exploded the dynamite.
A man was seen running down the hill
from the Delmonico after the explosion.
The Victor troops, who were ordered out
by Mayor French, were so stationed as to
keep people from passing over the path
taken by this man and bloodhounds were
sent from Canyon City and Trinidad for
the purpose of trailing ti e assassin.
The Infernal machiue ted to-day was
similar to the one exploded In the Vindi
cator mini on Nov. 21, IXC, killing
a Nov. 21, IXC, killing tvff
Major H. A. Nay lor, of (he
men.
By order of
National Guard, the bouf.s were niuovcd
from the coroner s estatlb hment to another
undertaker's. This action was taken oa
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