Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Carroll (IA) Herald July 30, 1913 CALUMET SHERIFF ASKS FOR TROOPS TO QUELL MINERS Lansing, Mich., July 26. - The governor's office this afternoon received a mesage (sic) from the sheriff at Calumet stating that he was in the hands of a mob of 500 men and that another mob of 500 was on the way to Calumet from Ahmeek, a small mining camp town near Calumet. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Calumet, Mich., July 24. - Strike violence occasioned by yester- days walk-out of copper miners in this district grew beyond the con- trol of Sheriff CRUNE today and he wired to Governor FERRIS asking that state troops be dispatched to maintain order. The local militia companies were ordered to hold themselves in readiness for service pending word from the governor, who, it is understood, was on his way to Alpena from Lansing. Several Are Injured. GEORGE DANBLOM, aged 30, was so badly beaten that he may die. GEORGE UNSWORTH, chief engineer at the Superior mine house, was cut about the throat while defending his hoisting plant. AUGUST BECK, chief of the Calumet and Hecla police staff, was beaten last night, but recovered and is in charge of protective measures again. J. KENNETH McLEOD, engineer at the Red Jacket shaft, had his nose broken by a stone. At noon the disturbances had ceased temporarily, but more trouble was anticipated. The machine shops, blacksmith shops and foundries which worked yesterday stopped when visited by strikers this morning and the stamp mills shut down on account of lack of oar (sic). Merchants of Hancock and the south range district put their sales on a cash basis this morning. The mine managements are acting in concert and will wait until the situation is under control before attempting to resume operations, although the closing of the conglamorate (sic) shafts of the calumet and Hecla for an indefinite time may mean costly damage to them. Militia Notified. GOVERNOR FERRIS in a message from Alpena this morning stated he is prepared to come to the copper country and to take personal charge of the situation on the first intimation of serious trouble. ADJUTANT GENERAL VANDERCOOK at Lansing has wired every militia captain in the state to have his men ready. WILLIAM RICHARDS, struck on the head by a stone, is in a serious condition. His skull is fractured. He is employed as a plasterer by the Calumet and Hecla. Five hundred Ahmeek strikers, many carrying clubs, marched through Calumet at noon to their headquarters, but there was no further dis- order. GOVERNOR FERRIS will be advised by SHERIFF CRUNE at once that the strike situation is serious enough warranting sending troops here. All was quiet early this afternoon. The miners are assembling for a mass meeting at headquarters in Calumet. The chief attack of strikers today was directed against the Calumet and Hecla properties. Shortly before noon 300 men armed with steel drills, clubs and stones and a few of them displaying and firing re- volvers, divested of their stars all the deputies stationed at No. 2 conglomerate shaft of the company. The strikers then moved over to the Hecla branch mine and repeated their tactics. Several men were badly beaten and sent to hospitals in the fights that developed. The strikers also visited all surface plants of the companies affected and closed them. A large body of strikers went from one shaft to another at Calumet and Hecla and Tamarack and several employes were attacked with stones and painfully hurt. At numerous cage houses of the Calumet and Hecla, a number of strikers were prevented from taking possession by a mining captain who drew a revolver and threatened to shoot. This morning the strikers gathered about the shaft to keep men with dinner pails away. A large number of deputies were sworn in and it is believed they can control the situation for the present at least. It is understood the mining companies will make no effort now to reopen the mines. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOVERNOR FERRIS REFUSES TO SEND TROOPS AT ONCE. Bay City, Mich., July 26. - GOVERNOR FERRIS, on his way to Alpena, but delayed here by a train wreck, said today that he would not grant SHERIFF CRUNE's request for troops in the copper mining strike dis- trict except as a last resort to protect lives. He said he believed the sheriff's message was anticipatory. The governor said that he will immediately take the matter up with Michigan National Guard officials and will probably send a man to Calumet as his personal representative to advise him regarding the exact status. "I dislike very much to order troops into Houghton county," said the governor. "The sheriff's message seems anticipatory and I will not send troops up there except as a last resort to protect lives, property and the men who desire to work." Before leaving here GOVERNOR FERRIS telegraphed to SHERIFF CRUNE asking him to see that the liquor laws are obeyed to the letter throughout the strike zone. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================