The Arvada enterprise., 1913-10-30
GUARD KILLED,
SIX WOUNDED
DURING THREE-HoUR BATTLE AT
BERWIND; CITIZENS SEEK
SHELTER.
TROOPS IN STRIKE ZONE
DlsARMlNo OF WARRING FORCES
BEGINS; BOTH SIDES KEEP
UP VIGIL.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
What Governor Ammons Says.

Governor Ammons' declaration fol-
lowing the ordering OF troops INTO the
strike district: -
That order will be restored, even If
it should be necessary to call out every
a BILE bodied man in the state or ask Tor
federal troops.
That every man in the strike zone
must be dsarmed and all saloons
closed.
That every former employe of the
coal companies who desires to return
to work will be protected.
That the importation of strikcbreak-
ers Will be prevented.
That the Adjutant General shall have
power to do anything that to MN
seems necessary.
and that operators and union men must
alike aid him in bringing about peace
That he will order troops to any
place in the state where there is trou-
BILE.
That he ordered troops into the field
only after both operators and union
leaders had failed to heed his sugges-
tlOns.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 29.-One mine
guard killed, two children wounded
and mine guard and four strikers
also shot were victims Tuesday, the
first of martial law in the strike zone,
of the fiercest fighting between strik-
ing miners and mine guards which
has been experienced since the coal
strike in the southern fields COM
menced The battle occurred in the
vicinity of the town of Ludlow and
the strikers tent colony there, the
scene of four conflicts since Saturday
afternoon.
With militiamen, as deputies, and
mine guards still holding the mines of
Berwind. Tobasco, Hastings and Della
qua, but with little ammunition left,
strikers surrounded the camps and
further fighting is expected before the
state troops can reach the scene to
intervene.
Angus Alexander, the guard who is
dead, was shot, when, with COM
pany of other guards he attempted to
check the advance of the strikers up
a canon toward the Hastings mine by
a sortie from the gate of the stockade.
The children, those of j. A. Woot.
ton, a machinist employed by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company at
its Tobasco property, fell, in their
home, a frail, wooden shack, under
the first volley of the strikers. Bull
lets, piercing the roof of the dwelling
as though it were cardboard, struck
one of the children, girl, in the arm,
and the other, a boy, in the right.
thigh.
The injured guard is Marshal Clin-
ton Robertson, who was shot through
the foot Subsequently Robertson,
though injured stood at the strikers
position and joined the party in which
Alexander was killed.
General order No. 1 of the militia
has been posted in the camps of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at Ber-
wind and Tobasco, closing all saloon ).
and the soldiers OF the local company
are there waiting relief from the cen
tral body of the state troops which
arrived in Trinidad. Trenches about
been extended, and serious trouble is
feared.
Reinforcements have arrived at the
tent colony, and within it and upon
the surrounding hills are more than
l,1OO miners armed with repeating
rifles.
Troops at Trinidad.
Apparently with strategic purposes
in view to enable them to secure quick
control of the southern coal strike dis.
trict, three large bodies of the Colo
RADIO national guard slowly approached
Trinidad in specia! trains. their mum.