Reign Of Terror

Eleven men killed, with a strong probability that the number of dead will be increased wlien all is known, is the record of the first dav of trouble in the gold mines at Cripnle L reek, Col., where a strike for better wages is on, althoug-h real had not yet bt-gun. as the deputies u awaiting reinforcements teforo bejrin ning active operations. Eleven starl i-d to work in the Strong mine, on Kattle Mountain. Shortly afterwards a larg-e party of strikersblew up the shaft house with powder, c;uisiiifr a loss of L25,000. and then dropped 100 pounds of g-iant powder down t lic slnift which was also exploded, killing all the inmates. Sixteen men who had been eng-aged to work in tlie Independence mine were surrounded and forced to surrender. They were all hcavily armed and strikers took possession of their weapons. When the full force of deputies are finally massedand the two forces come together a most desperate battle will doubtless be foug-ht. Later Newi Krom Crlpple Creek. The natural outcome of the stráined relations between the strikers anddenT f,ccuíred;. a fiht was inevitable and the inevitable happened. The trouble was precipitated inanendeavor on the part of the deputies to make a night maren and gain possession of the city of Víctor with the intention of using it as a base of operations in future attacks on the miners TJiey were warcnea oy tne mmers ana wnm a favorable point had been reached the latter met the deputies with a full force. The fight commenced at 3:30 a. m. and lasted over an hour. Winchesters and heavy revolvers were used mostly, but to'darkness much of the firing was wild. Both forces finally retired and the inventory showed that two deputies and four miners had been killed and five miners and six deputies had been captured by the respective opposing forces. It is now positively known that no lives were lost by the blowing up of the Strong shafithouse. Samuel McDonald, superintendent; Charles Robinson, foreman, and Jack Vaughn, a workman, were in the second level of the mine at the time of the explosión and remained there in safety until the next day, when they were brought out by union miners. taken under g-uard to Buil Hill and released on parole. Every known newspaper representative has been ordered away from Battle Mountain and Buil Hül and told not to return again at the peril of their lives. The order has gone forth that not a line of Information shall go out if it can possibly be prevented. Gov. Waite issued a proclamation calling upon all armed bodies in the disturbed district to lay down their arms and disperse. He also prepared to cali out the state troops to enforce the order. A few honra later he recalled the order, giving as his reason that there was a fair chance for arbitration. A great strain has been lifted from the community by a plan of arbitration of the troubles in the mines, and it looks now as though all hosülities were at an end; at any rate they have been temporarily suspended. A delegation from Colorado Springs, consisting of Dr. Mocura, president of Colorado college; Mr. C. G. Collais.president of the Traden assembly; Mr. L. W. Bates, president, and Charles Geisster, seeretary ot the Larpenters unión; Mr. T. D. Hog-an, and Rev. E. Evans Carrington, all of. Colorado Springs, went to Cripple Creek, with the hope that something might be done to settle the controversy. The principie of arbitration is one of the fundamental ideas of the union and it is now believed that an understanding can be reached. Prisoners are to be exchanged and it is most earnestly hoped that this unfortunate affair will be speedily settled and a new era of good feeling and prosperity brought to the camp. If the miners accept the proposition they will appoint two men, the mine oxvners two men and the four select a tifth. In advance, it has been stated that eigrht hours shall constitutea day's work and all that will have to be arbitrated is what shall be received therefor.