Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-25
DESERTIONS CAUSE
STRIKERS TO
FIGHT
At wALsENDERG, YESTERDAY, A.
PITCHED BATTLE OCCURRED Be.
TWEEN STRIKERS and MINERS
Who HAD DECIDED TO GO BACK
TO WORK.
STRIKERS have BOUGHT
A new MACHINE GUN


toll of yesterdays battle between
strikers and armed guards at Walsen
burg now numbers three. Chris Ko
kich. a Slav strikers who was sho,
through the neck is still living bu
will die physicians say.
| This morning seventy-five deputy
sheriffs are fortified in the county
court house in WHICH the two machine
guns have been mounted.
! No outbreaks have occurred today
but it is declared that the strikers
are in an ugly mood and Sheriff J. b
Farr anticipates further trouble. 1t i,
reported that the strikers are in pos
session of a machine gun which ar
rived in Walsenburg last night.
Three strikers killed and one mine
guard slightly wounded are the net
results of an attempt by strikers, it
is said to prevent DETECTION in their
ranks yesterday afternoon at Walsen-
burg.
Shortly after four O'Clock, two wag'
OH lOduh VI StilhelS VIII tllSll WIVES
and household goods, who had decid-
ed to return to work at the Walsen-
burg mine, were proceeding through
Seventh street bound for the Walsen-
burg mine on the outskirts of the town
under armed escort of mine guards.
News of the DETECTION brought a
mob of strikers about the vehicles.
Stones We're thrown and shot fired,
it is reported, by striker in the mob
and the guards replied. Cisto Cristo,
Italian, 81, was the striker killed
At $3.50, telephone advices from
Walsenburg stated firing had been re.
sumed between strikers and guards at
and near the Walsen mine. The situ
alton is regarded as serious.
Advices to the sheriff's Office here
last night, stated that strikers had
stopped train near Walsenburg and
taken a machine gun being sent to
the Walsen mine by the operators.
Later it is said the machine gun was
turned on the searchlight that has
been used nightly at the mine Sew
eral shots were fired, wounding the
man operating the light. According
to reports here the man had several
fingers shot off.
Sheriff Jefferson Farr, of Walsen-
burg, has asked Sheriff ]. S. Grisham,
OF Trinidad, to send deputies to Wal
senburg to aid in searching for the
men who did the shooting.
Excitement is running high, and
Walsenburg is in state of chaos and
telephone communication says some
immediate action should be taken
A. Arnwin, striker, aged SO, who
in this afternoons battle, was shot
in the groin and chest, will die, and
Chris Kokich, who was shot in the
neck, will die. Kokich who is Il Slav,
is "a years of age and single.
Witmore is the deputy shot, the
bullet grazing his head. He is not
seriously wounded.
Cisto Croci, who was killed in the
affray this afternoon, leaves wife
in Italy. Arwin and Kokich, who were
shot were reported dying at a late
hour last night and little hope is held
out for the recovery of Charles Youst,
an American.
According to the most authentic re-
ports, the trouble yesterday at Wal
senburg started when the furniture
and household goods of miners We're
being moved from Seventh street to
the mining camp where their owners
were to resume work AS the wagons !
from the camp attempted to load the +,
goods colored woman by the name
of Mrs. Richard, opened fire with a |
six shooter at one of the guards and |
100 strikers gathered |
and the rioting and shooting began.
The machine gun thought to have |
been taken by the strikers, was their
own, it having been consigned to the
Neeley Hardware company, and upon !
It's arrival the strikers at once took
charge of it and had it Immediately |
at the tent colony there.
In answer to an appeal from Sheriff |
Farr, of Walsenburg, Sheriff Grisham
dispatched twenty deputies on the c. |
E S. last night to aid in quelling the
disturbance.
It was rumored here that battle
would be precipitated at Ludlow as
oon as the deputies had left for that
ent colony with sixty warrants for
he arrest of strikers who are sup,
,osed to have taken part in the last
hooting affray there.
No news has come from the sheriff
md deputies who left here for the
amp.
Denver, Colo, Oct. 25.--Renewed ap-
'eals for state troops in the strike
districts were received at the COVER
lor's Office today following yester-
lays clash between strikers and arm
d mine guards at Walsenburg. Gov
rnor Ammons spent the morning {
tudying the strike situation and con-
idered reports received from various
oal camps. Conferences also were
Ield at which the strike situation was
discussed. At noon the governor de-
Jared that no conclusions had been
cached and he had no statement to
make.