The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-28

the Colorado National guard began
moving toward the southern Colorado
coal fields today where martial law
| will be established, in compliance with
proclamation.
Adjutant General John Chase an
nounced he expected the first troop
trains to leave Denver before 10 o'clock
this morning.
Denver, Oct. 2s-By noon today,
elght infantry companies of state
troops on their way, in accordance
with orders of Governor Ammons, is
sued this morning, proclaiming a
state of inSurrection, were to reach
the scene of the coal miners strike in
Huerfano and Las Animas counties
and before sundown it was expected
they would be Joined by eleven other
infantry companies, three troops of
| cavalry and two batteries of field ar
t1llery. Three other infantry COM
panies will arrive later.
The scene of the disturbance is in
the two counties of which Walsenberg
and Trinidad are the county seats.
The mines are reached by branches
from the Colorado and Southern rail-
way and from the Denver and Rio
Grande, which parallels it a few miles
eastward. The station of Barnes
where bridge was reported dynamit-
ed last night, is the junction point of
one of these branches, and the de-
struction of this bridge would inter-
rupt travel on that railroads Trinidad
| line.
Immediately after signing the order
directing Adjutant General Chase to
proceed to the mining district with
the entire militia force of the state,
Governor Ammons made a statement
of his reasons for issuing the order
Il have no other recourse said the
governor. Yesterday the situation
got from
PEELED to act.
For As hours 1 have been trying
to arrange a settlement but the agree
ment to keep the peace during the ne
gotiations was violated and the events
of Monday showed that the leaders
had not enough authority to prevent
outbreaks. Any one who wants to
work will be given protection to go
and come in peace, but I will not al
| low the importation of strike break
erS.
'T mean to be fair to both sides,
while enforcing peace and protecting
life and property"
State of Insurrection.
The governors orders to the ad-
Jutant general proclaim a state of in
surrectiOn, direct the disarming of
| both strikers and mine guards, order
the closing of saloons in the district
against the importation of strike
breakers and prohibit the intrusion
upon company property of all except
company workers They direct the
preservation of law and order and the
protection of life and property.
The ordering out of the militia came
after a day of conferences. The strike
/ leaders had yielded several points and
the prospects for a settlement SCENE d
good when the outbreak of violence in
! the district put stop to further nego-
tiations.
The first conferences had hardly
hoe
ernment that a hundred deputies had
fired upon the tent colony of the strik-
. ers at Ludlow and that the strikers
replying with shots had caused the re-
| treat of a trainload of guards, pro-
ceeding to the Tabasco mine, said to
be besieged by the strikers. The re-
port that the deputies had fired first
, was later denied.
Late in the afternoon a party of
guards, proceeding across the hills to
the relief of the Tabasco mine, was
alta cked by strikers near Berwind and
in the ensuing exchange of shots, it
was reported two strikers were killed
and five wounded. A report that the
strikers had captured seven mine
guards could not be confirmed, but it
was admitted the strikers had taken
possession of a Colorado & Southern
switch engine. The latest outbreak
reported after the governor had de-
cided to order out the troops was the
dynamiting of the railway bridge at
Barnes.
All in 35 Days.
Denver, Oct. 2S.-While the order
ing of troops into the coal field fol-
lowed the failure of Governor Am
monss efforts to arrange a settlement,
an additional reason for this action
was found today in the list of casual
ties and damage that have marked
the thirty-five days of the strike
The strike incidents were summar-
lied today as follows:
Battles and skirmishes, Is.
Killed, %.
Wounded and injured, Al.
Personal assaults, 6.
Buildings and bridges wrecked or
damaged by dynamite, II.
Property loss, estimated, $4,000.
Loss in wages, estimated, 50, 900.
Early Morning Battle.
Trinidad, Oct. 2S.-In a battle
which is believed to have started at
$50 o'clock this morning between
approximately 1900 strikers and pos
sibly 800 mine guards in the camps
at Hastings, Delagua, Tobasco and
Berwind, one mine guard and three
strikers are said to have been killed.
Ran Out of Ammunition.
Trinidad, Oct. 2S.-After three
hours hot fighting today between
striking miners and guards in the
critics at Delagua Hastings, Berwind
a Iull in the battle was caused by
lack of ammunition. One striker is
known to have been seriously injured
and conflicting reports are received
here concerning fatalities among mine
guards
One report has it that none was in
jured, and others say that fifteen
mine guards were killed. Because of