Gilpin observer., 1913-10-30
GUARD KILLED,
SIX WOUNDED
DURING THREE.HoUR BATTLE At
sERwIND; CITIZENS SEEK
SHELTER:
TROOPS IN STRIKE ZONE
pIsARMINe OF WARNING FORCES
BEGINS; BOTH SIDES KEEP
UP VIGIL.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
What Governor Ammons Says.


Governor lannon's declaration fol-
lowing the ordering of troops into the
strike district:
That order will be restored, even IL
it should be necessary to call out every
able bodied man in the state or ask for
federal troops.
That every man in the strike zone
must be disarmed and all saloons
That every former ,employe of the
coal companies who desires to return
to work will be protected.
That the importation of strikebreak-
ers will be prevented.
That the Adjutant General shall have
power to do anything that to him
seems necessary.
That peace is all that he. desires,
and that operators and union men must
alike aid him in bringing about peace
That he will order troops to any
BBieee Ble. in the state where there is trou-
That he ordered troops into the field
leaders had failed to heed his sugges-
tions.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 29.-One mine
guard Nkilled, two children wounded
and a 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 a COM
pany of other guards he attempted to
check the advance of the strikers up
a canon toward the Hastings mine by
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
let's, piercing the roof of the dwelling
as though it were cardboard. struck
one of the children, a girl, in the arm,
and the other, 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. / of the militin
has been posted in the camps of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at Ber.
wind and Tobasco. closing all saloons.
and the soldiers of the local company
are there waiting relief from the cen
trail body of the state troops which
arrived in Trinidad. Trenches about
the strikers camp at Ludlow have
been extended, and serious trouble is
feared.
Reinforcements have arrived at the
tent colony, and within 1t and upon
the surrounding hills are more than
LOO 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 num-
ber totalling 1000 men.