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Show 29 just /" southwest of the Beck workings. Again, no deaths resulted. Such affairs brought stern denunciations by Hyde and other mine owners, who sought the protection of Governor Thomas, governor of Utah Territory, who declined the 80 . P1ea f or assIstance. Formation of a Grand Jury, inpaneled to investigate the dynamite incident took place in June. No union man appeared on the Jury. It was the union's contention that the explosion was promulgated by the Beck people themselves, to create sympathy. By late June the jury had indicted forty-two, but not for the dynamiting affair. 20th incidents. Riot charges were issued for May 10th and Both men and women\predominantly Irish,were indicted--all pled not quilty.8l The labor troubles of 1893 appear to have dragged on, eventually M'V\f,V'.5\ petering out by the year's end. Evidently, the Eureka MinerS' Union suffered a stern defeat since it disappeared from the scene, only to reappear in 1902. The Eureka and Mannnoth locals, however, had helped in the formation of the Western Federation of Miners in Butte, Montana, in May of 1893. Shortly after the strike John Duggan died (buried in the Eureka cemetery), depriving the union of its most ardent defender. Mines worked sparadically but closed in June as the Panic of 1893, beginning in earnest in April reached the bottom by July. Only the Eureka Hill, under Pachard, continued to work with the Mannnoth re-opening in May with a small crew. some mines had reopened. 82 However, by the year's end Eureka's troubles in 1893 were not tied solely to labor strife. At the height of the Panic a fire devastated the town's business district. On July 10, at 1:00 a.m. a fire broke out in a saloon and lodging house, owned v.J by Minnie ;t:z.. Lock~, located on North Main Street. west on both sides of the thoroughfare. The fire spread east and Total losses were estimated at $37,500; and those sharing in that loss included Ben Luce, F. L. Shriver, F. H. Fullride, Pat Shea, and Lockwitz (the only one fully insured). Dan |
