Hellraisers Journal: General Bell Blames Socialist and WFM for Troubles in Colorado as Terror Continues Against Strikers and the Victor Daily Record Is Destroyed

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Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 18, 1904
Cripple Creek District, Colorado – Terror Continues Against Union Miners

From The Indianapolis News of June 13, 1904:

BELL SAYS SOCIALISTS ARE
CAUSE OF TROUBLES
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SAYS HE WILL DRIVE FEDERATION
FROM GOLD CAMP.
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THE ONLY HOPE FOR PEACE
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General Sherman Bell, Huntington IN Dly Ns Dem p2, June 11, 1904

CRIPPLE CREEK, June 13.-Gen. Sherman Bell has given out a statement concerning his action in deporting strikers and the causes leading up to the same. He attributes the recent troubles growing out of the miners’ strike, and the strike itself to the Socialist element in the Western Federation of Miners, which, he says, captured the organization two years ago. He declares that the federation has made unionism a secondary consideration, and the organization, root and branch, is being made a vehicle for the promotion of socialism. The leaders, he asserts, have not hesitated to cause “weak and willing members to commit any crime to strike terror to property owners or working men who refuse to abide their dictates.” The murder of non-union men by blowing up the Independence station, he charges, was “perpetrated with the aid and advice of federation leaders and by men in their employ.” The only hope for peace and security of life and property was “to exterminate the federation from the camp.”

General Bell and staff attended church yesterday and transacted no business, except what was absolutely necessary. Another party of 100 deported miners left Victor to-day, their destination being either New Mexico or Utah. The saloons of the district were opened to-day for the first time in a week.

Practically all the large mines in this district which closed down last Monday, after the explosion at Independence, were working to-day. The Portland mine has not yet been reopened and the company has not announced its plans.

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An Appeal to Gompers.

KANSAS CITY. June 13.-The Industrial Council of this city, which claims to represent 25,000 union members, adopted resolutions [yesterday] asking President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, to call a meeting of the executive board of that  organization for the purpose of devising means to settle the Colorado labor troubles. Telegrams were sent to President Roosevelt asking him to investigate and to Governor Peabody, condemning his actions by the orders of the Industrial Council. Mother Jones addressed the meeting.

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Miners Remain at Holly.

HOLLY, Colo., June 13.-Ten of the deported miners from Cripple Creek left here at midnight Saturday for La Junta, Pueblo and Denver. The remainder are staying in town. They have paid cash for their meals and lodging and made purchases at stores. It is probable that a considerable number of the exiles will go into the country to seek work on the ranches

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[Photograph and emphasis added.]

Striking Miners of Cripple Creek District Deported to Kansas Border:

Cripple Creek District Striking Miners Deported to KS State Line, Rastall p88, 1908

From the Deseret Evening News of June 13, 1904

FEDERATION’S SIDE PLAINLY STATED.
[…..]

Denver, June 11-The executive board of the Western Federation of Miners today issued a statement regarding the situation in Cripple Creek in reply to the statements made by Gen. Sherman M. Bell and Secy. C. C. Hamlin of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners’ association. It is as follows:

The cause of the strike of the Western Federation of Miners in Colorado is one of long standing and involves the failure on the part of mine managers in various parts of the state to live up to their own written agreements……

Today the only questions involved are the enforcement of the eight-hour day, the right of men to organize in the unions and to prevent discrimination against union men of all kinds.

The responsibility for the lawlessness connected with the contest rests entirely on the shoulders of the mine operators, the Citizens’ Alliance and their allies, backed up by the ready power of the state government.

[…..]

We are unfortunately forced to abide by the acts of an unbridled military despotism that is driving our members from pillar to post. Their fortitude under these circumstances is the marvel of the age and shows the Western Federation of Miners is composed of the highest type of American citizenship.

Our attitude is fully expressed by the following telegram:

Honorable Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States,
Washington, D. C.:

A duty devolves upon you as president of the United States to investigate the terrible crimes that are being perpetrated in Colorado in the name of law and order. We will render every possible assistance to the proper authorities in such investigation, to the end that the people of the country might realize the outrages that are being inflicted on innocent persons by those in temporary official power.

(signed)
W. D. HAYWOOD
Secretary.

[Emphasis added.]

Mrs. Emma F. Langdon Reports from the Cripple Creek Strike Zone:

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED.

Sometime during the night of June 7, armed with a proclamation of martial law, issued by Lieutenant Governor Haggott, who was acting while James H. Peabody was enjoying life at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, General Bell arrived in Victor. Bell was instructed to issue the proclamation if he found conditions such as to make it absolutely necessary. I have so often introduced this “tin God on wheels”—Bell—to the reader, and so often spoken of Bell’s love of war (on unions), that it is unnecessary for me to state that the general found it necessary and the proclamation went into effect at 2 a. m., June 8.

The proclamation follows:

State of Colorado, Executive Chamber, Denver.—Proclamation.

Whereas, There exists in Teller County, Colo., a large number of armed persons acting in conjunction with a large number of persons outside of that county, who are fully armed and acting together for unlawful purposes; and,

Whereas, Open riot and insurrection now exist in said county of Teller and felonies and murders have already been committed by such persons, who are still threatening to commit murder and felonies and are offering violence to the citizens and property of said county, and are resisting the laws of the state of Colorado; and,

Whereas, At divers and sundry other times various crimes have been committed in said county of Teller by and with the aid and under the direction of said vicious and lawless persons and the security of persons and property are now threatened in said county; and,

Whereas, Threats, intimidation and violence are threatened and believed will he resorted to by said lawless class of individuals; and,

Whereas, It is represented to me by the sheriff of said Teller county that the civil authorities within said county are unable to enforce the law and to secure peace and order in said county and that it is necessary to put the military in said county for the purpose of enforcing the law and restoring peace and order;

Now, therefore, I, Warren A. Haggott, acting governor and commander-in-chief of the military forces of the state of Colorado, by virtue and authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and declare the said county of Teller in the state of Colorado to be in a state of insurrection and rebellion.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be affixed at Denver, the state capital, this 7th day of June, A. D., 1904.

(Signed)
WARREN A. HAGGOTT,
Acting Governor.

Attest:
JAMES COWIE,
Secretary of State.
TIMOTHY O’CONNOR,
Deputy.

By command of
WARREN A. HAGGOTT,
Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
SHERMAN M. BELL,
Brigadier General, Adjutant General, State of Colorado.

Bell, in an interview with reporters early in the morning of June 8, said:

We will not bring any troops here from the outside unless the situation becomes more serious than at present. These fellows [meaning union miners] did not appreciate the treatment given them when the soldiers were here before. No resistance will be tolerated now, and, if necessary, they will be shot down.

THE BATTLE OF DUNNVILLE.

All who read the daily papers during the troubles in Teller county will remember the thrilling, blood-curdling accounts of a battle at the little camp called Dunnville. This little place was about fourteen miles south of Victor, on the F. & C. C. railroad in Fremont county. The population consisted of a few prospectors who lived in tents. The camp was composed almost wholly of miners that had been on strike since the inception of the troubles in the Cripple Creek district who were doing a little mining for themselves.

A few weeks before the explosion at Independence a rich strike had been made and the little camp had been “boomed” by the press. As I have before stated, Sherman Bell has a wonderful imagination and his specialty has always been discovering plots of terrible crimes to be committed and preventing the same from being executed.

On the morning of June 8, Bell claimed that he had received a message that a force of union miners, “armed and provisioned”, had entrenched themselves on the mountain side just above the little camp of Dunnville, which lay in the valley below.

The great (?) warrior declared he would raid the camp and take captive the population, which he prepared to do. Calling together a squad of deputies and militia and taking a special train about three o’clock in the afternoon, Bell left Victor to capture what he designated as “the anarchists and dynamiters.”

The special train carried Bell, about two hundred non-union deputized miners and two companies of militia. Bell permitted newspaper men to go along and each wore a white ribbon badge to distinguish them from the “army.” The obvious intention, undoubtedly, being that after the battle, when the dead and wounded were gathered up, the reporters could be identified. As you can see, General Bell, as becomes a great warrior, (?) never overlooked any details.

After a cautious journey, advance scouts being thrown out, they discovered three men going up the mountain. The train was ordered stopped about seventy-five yards from the tents at Dunnville. Orders were given to hurriedly load, leave the train and line up for battle. The non-union miners, who were acting as deputies being more savage than the rest, pushed ahead and fired into the tents as they hurried on in advance. Upon orders of General Bell, the militia fired upon the three men seen going up a gulch in the mountain side, and for several minutes a storm of shot fell in the direction of the “rebellious army of three.”

The press, in reporting the engagement, described a fierce onslaught by the entrenched miners. Sherman Bell said that there was a regular hailstorm of shots fired at him by the miners; that the earth was actually ”ploughed up” around him or words leaving that impression. The train crew stated that not more than one shot was fired by any one except the crowd that went on the special train. They stated further that the one shot had lost all force by the time it reached the valley.

A press reporter stated that he stood within fifteen feet of Bell and did not hear any bullets flying by or see the ground torn up by bullets. It has been implied that the general, in the excitement of the engagement, used his spur-be-decked feet with such effect, that, like all pugnacious roosters, dirt and gravel flew in all directions and rattled on the general’s sword and the windows of the train, giving him the impression that “shot and shell” from the enemy was raining all around him.

A reporter who accompanied the “army” stated that at least 500 shots were fired by deputies and militia. Imagine the surprise of the prospectors to hear such a cannonading in their quiet little camp. They were not offered an explanation or given an opportunity to surrender if they wished. The writer interviewed many in regard to the Dunnville battle and by one it was stated that the miners, when they saw the armed force approaching, fled to the hills, and, if this was true, the reader could not censure, for they were not armed except with dinner pail and prospector’s pick and shovel.

I would not blame a man for getting behind a rock if he saw he was about to be shot down in cold blood by an excited man in charge of a Krag rifle.

Bell finally gave the order to cease firing to give the miners a chance to come down from the mountain. The men at once came down with their hands up and even then they were prodded and guards made talk of shooting off fingers from hands that were elevated, and one militiaman fired three shots at a man with his hands up, trying to shoot his thumb off.

John Carley, a member of the I. O. O. F. [Independent Order of Odd Fellows] and of the Miners’ union was shot in cold blood. He was one of the three men first seen going up the mountain. His comrades saved their lives by jumping behind a rock.

The result of this grand raid on the little camp was John Carley murdered; the capture of sixteen union miners; one twenty-two calibre target rifle; one old-fashioned shotgun; one forty-five calibre revolver and about thirteen picks and a few jack knives; possibly a miner’s shovel or two. Upon the miners being searched, a can of sardines was found on the person of one. This was at once conjectured to be a bomb, but upon cautious investigation by a non-partisan, proved to be sardines, long since dead, and therefore, harmless. I believe it was also said that in some of the tents was found a can of potted ham. This Bell at once declared to be a plot to commit murder (or suicide), for the reader will remember that during the Spanish-American war a number of soldiers lost their lives by eating canned beef or corned can beef.

To show how brave some of the members of the guard are, I might mention that during this “fierce battle” I have described, a lieutenant made an excuse to return to the car for something and never found it, at least, he remained in the coach. Another member of the party was seen hiding behind a tent and when the train was ready to return to Victor, came forth trembling. Other cases of the same kind came to the writer’s attention. This led me to wonder what the action of Bell’s army at various times would have been were they compelled to face armed men in an actual engagement.

As is usual in war, the victorious general gave orders to destroy the stronghold of the enemy, so the little tents of the miners and their simple contents were rendered useless.

This, dear reader, is a brief but true history of the much spoken of Dunnville battle. History records many brave and valiant deeds performed by military commanders, such as Napoleon crossing the Alps, Sheridan’s march to the sea, but according to Bell and his admirers, the general’s Dunnville battle far excels all military achievements recorded in history. I have been told, but can not vouch for the truth of same, that upon the return of Bell’s triumphant legion to headquarters, the band played, “See the Conquering Hero Comes,” and “Hail to the Chief,” and that, at the suggestion of Bell, a subscription was taken up in order to present him with a medal in commemoration of his bravery and military genius….

On the same day, the 8th, the militia and deputies were kept busy hunting down union men and their sympathizers placed under the ban by the mine owners. Squads scoured the hills in all directions hunting for those who were attempting to leave the district.

Along about this date five out of six members of the city council of Goldfield were taken to the bull pen and later were forced to resign. Goldfield was left without a legislative body for a while.

Lieutenant Harley Keegan was appointed night marshal of Victor.

Coroner Doran of Victor, was also forced to resign on the 8th, but before he resigned he had impaneled a jury to investigate the Independence horror, which was his last official act in the capacity of coroner. George R. A. Hall was appointed as coroner.

VERDICT OF CORONER’S JURY.

An inquisition held at Cripple Creek, in Teller county, on the 9th and 10th of June, 1904, before George R. A. Hall, coroner of said city, upon the bodies of Gus Augustine, Arthur Muhlise, Henry Hagg, Ernest McCoy and others there lying in death, by its jurors, whose names are hereto inscribed, said jurors, on their oath, do say that said persons came to their death by an explosion of dynamite or other explosive at the Florence & Cripple Creek depot, at or near the town of Independence, Teller county, Colorado, on the morning of June 6, 1904, about 2:30 a. m.

We further find that said explosive was exploded by an infernal machine purposely and artfully set and discharged by some persons to jury unknown, for the purpose of wilfully, maliciously and feloniously killing and murdering said persons and others; that said crime is one of similar crimes designed and committed in the Cripple Creek district during the past few months for the purpose of killing and intimidating non-union miners and thereby preventing them from working, and that said crimes are the result of a conspiracy entered into by certain members of the Western Federation of Miners, and known, incited and furthered by certain officers of that organization.

The verdict of the coroner’s jury is not surprising when it is known that the jury was composed of men strongly prejudiced against organized labor. The legitimate coroner himself being forced to resign, the following composed the jury as impaneled by George R. A. Hall, coroner, appointed to fill Doran’s office: J. E. Pruett, J. D. Kingston, R. L. Davidson, E. C. Newcomb, Walter F. Block and C. D. Hall.

By order of Provost Marshal McClelland, eight members of the Woman’s Auxiliary were brought before him to be questioned, and after being asked many questions and warned not to be guilty of “agitation” were allowed to return to their homes.

KANGAROO COURT.

June 8, Adjutant General Bell instituted a so-called military commission, composed of seven civilians of the most bitter and prejudiced enemies organized labor ever had, corrupt politicians every one, real estate sharks, mine managers and their attorneys. This bogus commission, drum head court martial, exercised all the functions of a banditti chieftain, ordering peaceful law-abiding, hard-working citizens and tax payers to appear before them, consigned to jail or deported, as their pleasure dictated, thus making a door mat of the constitution of the state and nation, and over-riding all law.

The men appointed were as follows: F. D. French, Nelson Franklin, J. B. Cunningham and T. J. Daltzell.

The obvious intention of this commission was to supplant the regular instituted courts and to give a semblance of justice to what followed.

After having instituted this commission, in order to perfect the inquisition, General Bell appointed Major Thomas E. McClelland as provost marshal for the district, whose duty it was to arrest and bring before the commission all persons placed under the ban by it.

The board sat the same day of its appointment and recommended the deportation from the district of one hundred men…

RECORD PLANT DESTROYED.

June 8, at 10:45 p. m., the Victor Daily Record office, on South Fourth street, was wrecked by unidentified men. Eight heavily armed men did the work. It could not be seen whether they were militiamen or deputy sheriffs, as they had no outward marks of identification. They walked boldly into the composing room in the rear of the office building and with rifles and revolvers drawn ordered Walter Sweet, the foreman; F. W. Langdon [husband of Mrs. Langdon], a linotype operator; John Dannenfeld, the pressman; Art Caldwell, an apprentice, and a printer named Gribben, to line up and hold up their hands.

The men obeyed at once and were then driven from the office and ordered to leave the district immediately.

While this proceeding was passing two of the armed men, who carried sledges or double-jacks, proceeded to beat the two linotype machines to pieces.

They wielded the big hammers with a vengeance and soon had the type setting machinery practically ruined. The job presses were then attacked and broken up. The forms on the composing stone were hurled to the floor and thrown about the office, the telephone was smashed, a typewriter was demolished, and as much other damage as was thought necessary to complete the destruction of the office and equipment.

No clew to the identity of the men who did the work was possible at the hands of the employes who saw it accomplished. None of the employes recognized any of the faces of the armed force, although they were not masked.

Editor and proprietor George Kyner and his reporter, Edward Mannix, were not in the office when the eight men came in.

Kyner and his employe were taking luncheon at the National restaurant and did not know of the destruction of the office until they returned there about half an hour after it happened.

The damage to the plant prevented the same being used for further publication of the Record. The paper, however, did not suspend publication, as through the courtesy of the management of the Cripple Creek Star allowing Editor Kyner the use of their plant, he was enabled to get out a small sheet.

The Star was soon notified that if they persisted in assisting Kyner in publishing the Record, their plant would receive the same treatment as the one just destroyed. By this time, however, Kyner had repaired sufficient machinery to be able to get out a very small paper by hand composition.

A significant fact in connection with the attack and demolition of the Record office is that H. J. Richmond, the Record correspondent located in Cripple Creek, was ordered to leave the district on pain of death, by parties whom he claimed were bitterly opposed to him because he had taken pains to criticize them rather closely in a criminal charge pending in the district court at Cripple Creek.

The day after the printing office was destroyed, F. W. Langdon, linotype operator, met and recognized the leader of the mob who was serving as a deputy, and walked up to him, and said:

“You are the man that led the raid on the Record.” The man turned pale but did not answer. Later steps were taken by Langdon to have him arrested, and the military promised to see to it that he was brought to justice.

The following day, after the meeting I have described, it was found the man recognized was still at liberty, and the military, upon being asked what they intended to do, stated: “We have no authority to arrest that man as he is a deputy sheriff.” So far as the writer has been able to learn, no effort was made to arrest the perpetrators any more than a great deal of talk and insinuations.

The following night, Langdon was given instructions to leave the district inside of forty-eight hours.

Up to the date of the destruction of the Record the paper had been recognized as the official organ of the miners’ union and other unions of the county. Through the editorial columns of the paper, Editor Kyner had vigorously denounced the acts of the military, early in the strike, in raiding homes and in many ways over-riding constitutional rights of the citizens…

The Independence explosion was denounced in the same manner as other lawless acts and the perpetrators spoken of as assassins.

The day chosen to destroy the Record plant was opportune for the effect that undoubtedly was intended by the mine owners and Citizens’ Alliance. The last issue of the paper, before the plant was destroyed, ran a long editorial headed, “Call the Strike Off,” which was a plea that the W. F. M. at once issue an order calling off the strike.

It was generally believed that the instigators expected that the public would at once blame the strikers for the destruction of the plant as a matter of retaliation and the enemies to all organized labor in the district at once seized this opportunity of venting their hatred of a year’s standing against the paper that had so many times past denounced the high-handed methods of the Citizens’ Alliance.

In expecting that the public would believe the strikers guilty of destroying the Record office, they were disappointed. I will state that at no time did I hear any person say that they believed any of the strikers guilty…

In order to accomplish the mine operators’ object, General Bell, acting in conjunction with S. D. Crump, issued a proclamation on the 9th, ordering the Portland closed [a mine deemed to friendly to the union], and the arrest of all men therein who were “dangerous to the community.”

Bell’s proclamation follows:

MILITARY HEADQUARTERS, Victor, Colo., June 9, 1904.—Proclamation:

Whereas, The governor of the state did, by proclamation issued on the seventh day of June, 1904, declare the county of Teller therein to be in a state of insurrection and rebellion, and the territory comprising the said county is now under the rule of military law, and now being held and occupied by the militia of said state; and

Whereas, A reign of lawlessness, violence and crime has existed in said county for several months last past, inaugurated, encouraged and carried forward by certain evil-disposed persons, resulting in wholesale assassinations of many peaceable and law-abiding citizens; and

Whereas, Said reign of violence and crime still exists in said county so that the peace of the community is threatened, lives and property of the citizens are menaced and mob rule and violence now threaten to override the law; and

Whereas, The Portland mine, situated in said county is, and for a long time has been engaged in employing and harboring large numbers of dangerous, lawless men, who have aided, encouraged and given comfort and assistance to those who have so been guilty of said crimes and outrages, so that said mine has become and now is a menace to the welfare and safety of the good people of said county and a hindrance to the restoration of peace and good order;

Now, by the power conferred on me as commander of the military force in said county and as a military necessity, it is ordered that the said mine be at once closed and all men found therein or thereabouts who are dangerous to the community be arrested and held until further orders.

SHERMAN M. BELL,
Brigadier General, Adjutant General State of Colorado,
Commanding Military District, Teller County, Colorado.

Bell carried out the order in the afternoon of the 9th, with the aid of one hundred or more of his soldiers, but strange to say, he did not arrest a single one of the men in the mine. This fact alone is sufficient to show that he did not believe that the miners at work on the Portland were dangerous or lawless, and that the statement was but a necessary pretext upon which to vent his order to close down the mine.

The only dramatic feature of the occasion was that as the military force advanced up the hill an American flag rose to the top of the staff over one of the shaft houses.

The sequel to the foregoing is this: The mine operators do not propose to allow the Portland company to work its mine as the company may prefer.

It isn’t possible that the Citizens’ Alliance will deny a man’s right to work? Some walking delegate of the unions must have called a strike on the Portland mine.

It was at once announced unless he carried a card in the Mine Owners’ Association he could not work. They caused the mine to be closed down to force out the union men employed in it, against the will and protest of the owner, and proposed to continue the management of that mine by saying whom its owner should and should not employ to work it. And yet from the very inception of the strike Peabody was ever ready to proclaim:

“A man has the right to work for whom, when and where he pleases, etc. “O, consistency, thou art a jewel.”…

BLACKLIST INSTITUTED.

On the morning of June 9th, two committees appointed by the Citizens’ Alliance circulated the following agreement among the employers of the district:

We, the undersigned merchants of the Cripple Creek district and employers of help, hereby agree not to employ help of any kind that is in any way connected with the trades assembly or the American Federation of Labor or the Western Federation of Miners or kindred organizations.

All employers were urged to sign the agreement which was typewritten. All complied, with the exception of the Atlantic Tea Company and George A. Childers both of Cripple Creek. Later on in the day when it was ascertained that the enforcement of this rule would prevent the publishing of the daily papers, as the printers were affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and non-union help could not be procured to fill positions, the ban was removed from the American Federation of Labor unions and American Labor Union organizations substituted.

From the time of this petition being circulated, it was necessary for those belonging to organizations boycotted by the Citizens’ Alliance to either surrender their positions or take a card or permit issued by the mine operators. Many employes refused to take out a card and were discharged and deported.

Following is a facsimile of permit card issued by the Mine Owners’ Association in this section of “Free America.”

Cripple Creek District CO MOA Permit Card, June 1, 1904, EFL 1905 p346Cripple Creek District CO MOA Permit Card, June 1, 1904, copy, EFL 1905 p346

[Emphasis added]

The union miners and their families continue to live in a state of terror in the Cripple Creek Strike Zone as round-ups and deportations continue. The wives and children left behind are without support as the union relief stores, along with all provisions, have been destroyed by the rampaging mobs of the Citizens’ Alliance.

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SOURCES

Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/3

The Indianapolis News
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
-June 13, 1904
https://www.newspapers.com/image/40287809/

Deseret Evening News
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-June 13, 1904
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045555/1904-06-13/ed-1/seq-8/

The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts
of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism
-by Emma F. Langdon
Great Western Publishing Company, 1905
(search: “martial law proclaimed”) p331
(search: “battle of dunnville”) p332
-in all see pages 331-346
https://books.google.com/books?id=WrF-AAAAMAAJ

IMAGES

General Sherman Bell,
Huntington IN Daily News-Democrat p2, June 11, 1904
https://www.newspapers.com/image/39422617/

Cripple Creek District Striking Miners Deported to KS State Line,
Rastall p88, 1908
https://books.google.com/books?id=wRpSAAAAMAAJ

Cripple Creek District CO MOA Permit Card, June 1, 1904,
EFL 1905 p346
https://books.google.com/books?id=WrF-AAAAMAAJ

See also:

Hellraisers Journal – Friday June 17, 1904
Union Miners Deported from Cripple Creek District, Dumped at Alkali Sand Dunes Without Food or Water

Tag: Emma F Langdon
https://weneverforget.org/tag/emma-f-langdon/

Tag: Cripple Creek Strike of 1903-1904
https://weneverforget.org/tag/cripple-creek-strike-of-1903-1904/

Map: Teller County CO
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Teller+County,+CO/@38.7358403,-105.1501613,13z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8714ca9e9ed8fc65:0x39c09bd848800da0!8m2!3d38.8611579!4d-105.1726816!16zL20vMG5fcWs?authuser=0&entry=ttu

WE NEVER FORGET

John Davis, killed June 6, 1904 in Victor

John Carely, killed June 8, 1904 at Dunnville

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