Victor, Colo., Monday, June 6th, 1904.
After mailing special reports to the Agency and the client, I went to the F. & C. C. Depot to await the arrival of the train carrying the killed miners. It was said by persons in the waiting crowd, miknown to me, that Sheriff Robertson could not be found at his home or anywhere in the district.
After the train carrying the dead arrived here, Sheriff Robertson came upon the scene and took charge in a very ostentatious manner. The killed miners were blown into unrecognizable masses of Rcsh and bone, and when the crowd
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beheld this sight it moved them to tears, and then drove them into a frenzy of indignation.
I talked with a yoimg miner named Miller, employed at the Shutehoff Mine. He said he was within a short distance of the Independence Depot when the explosion occurred. He claims the F. & C C. train was running slower than usual, and that the train actually stopped before the explosion, and within a few yards of the depot. Miller saw one man blown from the platform in front of the F. & C. C. train, and Miller states the man's head could not have been over six inches from the pilot of the engine, yet the engine did not touch him. Miller states, in his opinion, not over twenty-five pounds of dynamite was used, and he feels sure it was dynamite.
At 4.15 A. M. some of the militiamen began to arrive on the scene. They were in command of Major Naylor, H. C. Moore and Coll. There were