Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-27
STRIKERS AND
DEPUTIES
CLASH
MEANWHILE C0L0RADO'S GOVERNOR
ATTEMPTS TO BRING PEACE
BY C0NFERRING WITH 0PERAT.
ORS AND STRIKE LEADERS,
AGREEMENT MAY Be REACHED.
MILITIA STILL HELD
UNDER HURRY-UP ORDERS

UNDER HURRY up ORDERS
Ludlow, Colo, Oct 27.--Nearly 10(
attempted to take the strikers tent
Icolony here, but were driven back to
ward Trinidad by approximately -;
strikers following a spirited exchange
of shots continuing for half an hour
AS far as known there were no cas-
ualties. The deputies came from Trim
idad in steel cars.
Deputies Enroute.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 27.-Quiet pre-
vailed this morning in the Ludlow
and Berwind canyon districts where
yesterday an all day skirmish was
waged between strikers and armed
guards. The strikers claim today that
they have over 500 armed men posted
! in the hills about the camps of To
masco, Berwind. Cedar Hill, Hastings
and at the Ludlow tent colony and the
territory Immediately south of there
Fifty-eight- deputy sheriffs, and 36 mil
tia men, ordered to go to the besieged
camps and reinforce the guards now on
duty, were delayed here for two hours
this morning when the train crew
struck, refusing to haul the officers
George Hunt. one of the deputies,
| finally took charge of the engine, and
with two other deputies acting as fire
men the train pulled out at 1880.
The ninetytwo picked men on the
special train were instructed to make
their way to Tobasco Berwind and
Hastings to reinforce the guards there
Two hundred strikers are spread Out
! in a skirmish line mile wide south
of Ludlow and $50 are said to be in
trenches at Ludlow tent colony. The
unionists declare that the guards in
tend to attack the tents.
Fire Section House.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 27.-Early this
Afternoon the section house, south OF
strikers. according to report re-
ceived at the local Offices of the Colo
RADIO and Southern. The guards, in the
steel cars. are stationed about mile
and half south of Ludlow. according
to reports received here. A resump-
Ition of firing is momentarily expected
Denver, Colo, Oct. 27.-With officers
Iof the Colorado National Guard still
under orders to hold themselves in
readiness for instructions to assemble
their commanders and start for the
southern coal fields. Further military
Operations were halted today while
Governor Ammons conferred with
operators and miners.
Although the government gave out
mo statement it was known that over
might developments renewed his hope
of possible peaceful settlement of the
strike that has been in progress in the
southern Colorado coal fields since
September 23. The governor was ret
icent as to the proposals discussed at
his conference.
Negotiations between the governor,
the operators and the miners had de-
Iveloped nothing definite at noon. The
operators have declined to meet the
miners and conferences proceeded
during the morning with Governor Am.
mons as a go-between. 1t was under
stood that the miners insist that the
operators grant them check weigh
man, a bi-monthly pay day and an
eight-hour day all of which are pro.
vided under the law. That the opera
tors would assure the governor that
"they would obey the law was as far
as the operators would agree to go,
according to unofficial reports from
the conference room.
"The clash here occurred when the
strikers apparently believed that the
deputies intended to attack the tent
colony. Later it was learned that the
deputies were on their way to Tabas-
co to the relief of the small force of
guards in that camp said to be sur
rounded by large force of strikers.
Had Broken Armistice.
When news of today's clash reached
Governor Ammons he let it be known
that he considered the strikers had
broken the virtual armistice which it
was understood was to be effective
pending the outcome of the governors
efforts to arrange settlement.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon it was
said that militia officers had been eau
toned to stay where the state Off
cials could reach them by telephone.
Pueblo, Colo, Oct. 27.-Four hun
dred members of the Colorado ma
tional guard are modified in nine
southern Colorado towns ready to
leave at an instant's notice for the
strike region.
Men are now under arms at Fowler,
Holly, Laiunta, Lamar. Ordway. Delta, |
Durango and Colorado
Springs. The companies from south
ern Colorado will be the first ones to !
be sent to the strike zone If Governor
Ammons orders out the troops.