Gilpin observer., 1913-11-13
FOUR men SHOT DEAD.
THREE KILLED FROM AMBUSH IN
STRIKE RIOTS.
Mine Guards Slain AS They Flee In
Auto With Miner From La veta
-Asuilar Miner. Shot.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
La Veta, Colo, Nov. 9-The most
tragic battle in the history of the
strike struggle in the southern fields
took place Saturday afternoon at. the
Gene Loughead ranch, three miles
west of the mountain town of La
Veta, when an automobile containing
four guards, the driver and one miner
was ambushed by a gang of men and
three of them killed and two wounded.
The Dead-Harry Bryan. 1882 Og-
den street, Denver, captain of guards;
Walter Whitten, Carlton hotel, Den
yer. guard; Luke Terry, Colorado
Springs, chauffeur.
The Wounded-R. G. Adams, Arri-,
ba. Colo, shot through left arm and
right foot; William Gamblin, miner.
shot through right lung.
The place where the shooting took
place Is ideal for an ambush. The road
winds out of La Veta and runs along
and up hill. At the right of the hill,
where tie road starts up, is the
Loughead reservoir held in by dirt
embankment. 1t was from this en-
bankment that the strikers did their
firing.
The riddled automobile stood Sat
urday night in the same spot where
the stiffening hands of the chauffeur
had stopped it. Terry slipped down
in his seat still holding the wheel.
Fifty yards back Captain Bryan lay
! face downward with his gun under
him. Whitten, twenty yards back of
the machine, lay on his back. The
machine was riddled with bullets.
Gamblin is at the owen ranch. He is
not in a dangerous condition. r. G.
Adams was taken to the office of DR..
Lamm.
General Chase Says Situation Critical.
Trinidad.-Adjutant General John
Chase regards the situation in the
strike zones of southern Colorado as
most serious following a day of
bloodshed and violence. The streets
of Trinidad and every section of the
strike district are being guarded by
militiamen to prevent further out
breaks.
One non-union miner shot and
killed and one striker wounded at Ag-
uilar; mine clerk assaulted, beaten
and left for dead by strikers at the
Mclaughlin mine three miles south Of
Trinidad; two miners beaten by strik-
ers at Starkville; a camp marshal
captured by strikers. disarmcd and
driven from Segundo, and a skirmish
between strikers and military guards
at Forbes. is the record of twenty-four
hours in the Las Animas county dis
trict since General Chase left Denver
for his military headquarters here.
Five bridges of. the Denver & Rio
Grande main line between Cucharas
and Rouse junction have been
burned.
strikebreaker Is Slain Near Aguilar.
Pedro Armijo. 52. a non-union miner
from the Ravenwood mine in Huer-
fano county, was shot and killed on
the outskirts of Aguilar by one of a
group of six strikers from the Aguilar
tent colony who, it is reported, had
followed and surrounded him on his
way to Lynn station to take train
for Walsenburg.
Terror Rules Coal District.
Walsenburg. Colo, Nov. 10.-With
R. G. Adams, the fourth of the men
shot in the ambuscade near La veta
Saturday afternoon, dead in the hos
pital at Pueblo, the feeling of horror
in this district over the killing has
intensified
That the reign of terror is on again
is freely expressed by citizens. The
.k., 4 g.
La Veta and Aguilar during Saturday
and ended in killings, was felt at
Walsenburg up until late hour Sun
day night. 1t broke once when strik-
ers caught Neal McDermott, fire-boss
from the Maitland mine, before the
Star theatre and beat him.