 The superintendent and the shift bosses accompanied all of the workers out the door.p.209

A railroad track walker had discovered missing spikes.p.210

The incident at first appeared to be an attempt to wreck a train carrying strike breakers to non-union mines.p.69 A former member of the WFM by the name of H.H.McKinney was arrested and confessed to K.C.Sterling, a detective employed by the Mine Owners' Association, and D.C. Scott, a detective for the railroad, that he had pulled the spikes.