GUGGENHEIMS RE
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One man dead and five wounded
at Keystone canyon is the latest
development in the contest between
the C. R. & N. VV. road and the
Alaska Home people for a right
of-way to the interior.
This morning a message* was
received over the wires stating that
emplovees of the Alaska Home
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were erecting construction camps
at or near the entrance to Key
stone canyon, when they were fired
upon from ambush by some un
known parties. At first the report
was that five men were wounded,
but later messages state that six
were shot and that one is dead
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Three more not expected to live.
No names can he obtained at
present.
As soon as the news was received
an ambulance and doctor was
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started on the trail, and soon at er
a number of deputy marshals left
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San Francisco, Sept. 25—The
city jail building has started to
collapse "abd all the inhabitants
have been ordertd Jo vacate. The
columns which support the main j
structure are slowly buckling and]
the building may go down at
any time.
i for the seem* to apprehend tne
i guilty parties and bring them to
jail.
Details.are very imager, but as
i near as can be learned the men of
j the Home Railway were going
! through the canyon when the em
: pjovees of the other road, w ho were
| concealed behind barricades t»uilt
fun the grade, began firing at them,
j before t lie employees of i he Home
j Railway withdrew six of them bad
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been bit by bullets,
j ' George Razelctt, who has charge
of the local office -of the North
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western company, in an interview
this morning said tnat the men
under him positively had no
order's to use file arms, and that he
deplores the use of force as much
as anv one . in town. Mr. Hazlelt
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is greatly distressed bv the turn
events have taken, as the shooting
Oyster Bay, fciepi. 25— Sfuyves
ant Fish lias carried his fight
against, Hsvrritnnn to the President.
Yesterday he visited Loeh and u« -
livered a message for the president
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denouncing Harritnan’s manage*
.ment of the Illinois^Central and
charging that hir» report on the
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was entirely without his approval
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or sanction.
Advices by phone state that a
coyote hole was loaded by the
Northwestern forces with powder
and wou)d have been exploded
when the main party crossed the
place, if it bad not l»een for Morri
sev, who succeeded in capturing
the man, O’Neil, who was to ex
plode the' mine. This explosion
would have caught Reynolds.'Reid.
Fish, Nelson and the foreman, who
were in advance of . the , party.
When it was seen that the mine
could n.»t be fired, shooting began
at the surveyors and lahorejrs, five
were dropped before the mem re
treated. As 0’Ned was with the
main parly of *he Alaska Home
people no shots were fired at that
partv for fear of hittinn him.
I Tlie earlier report that one himn
was killed was an error.
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' Union Pacific was padded to coyer
his absorption of the revenues of
that road.
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Beilin hum, Sept . 25—Exclusion
| Agent Fowler, who was arrested
| day before yesterday as* insane was
| examined by n sanity board yes
terday and committed to an
asvlum.
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A Wlated telegram from Keysl<*n*
panyon gives the names of the in
jured men as follows: E. Chrkv,
foot shattered ; Thnvne Heckman,
Seattle, shot in left thigh ; Frc l
Reinhardt, shot in left knee ; John
Phillips, shot in right hip ; Clin.-.
Olsen, shot through*left breast ai l
V. Hutchins in the right ban i.
The shooting occurred at 8:30 tlr.s
morning as surveyors and. work
men of Alaska Home Railway
started to go through'the canyon.
Thev were mot by one of Gugge •
heims* foremen, who told them t *
stop or they would he shot. Think
ing this was a .bluff the men con
tinued and were met by u fusillade
of rifle shots. The wounded men
were taken to camp 6 where they
are awaiting.medical attendance.
C res ton, Sept. 25—A locomotive
and iour cars on the Baltimore tV:
Ohio road disappeared entirelv yes
terday as they were, standing or.
a side* track. There appears to
have been a subterranean lake, the
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existence of which was unknown,
and yesterday the ground gave
way, Causing the roadl>ed for a
mile to sink several feet and en
guifing some portions of it en
tirely.
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