Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-09-24
Slayers Take to Hills With
Posse on Trail; Crime Causes
High Feeling in Trinidad
District.
FIGHT TO THE DEATH,
CRIES MOTHER JONES
First BloOdshed in Black Dia-
mOnd Walkout May Presage
Reign of Violence in Colora-
do Camps.


. Denver. sept. 2f--At O'Clock .
= this afternoon the Colorado .
. strike situation may Dc summar- Q
= lied az follows. .
- The first disorder occurred at .
le Segundo where Marshal Robert =
of Lee was killed.
Three unidentified foreign .
y strikers implicated in the shoot o
= ing pursued by posses q
Sheriff Grisham of Trinidad .
notified Boy governor 10 spare no .
expense to apprchend the Of =
. tenders. Q
Operators estimate 30 per cent .
OF men al work in Las Anlmas .
and Hucrfano counties and s5 .
per cent working In entire state. Q
Union officials claim as high y
as % per cent of men on strike. .
Operators claim no danger uf .
fuel shortage. II rate of produc- .
tion reported today Is main .
. tainca .
Additional shipment Of tents >
. received at Trinidad tor use in o
caring tor striking miners ana .
y families .
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thA tri,-i'u .fc 10 Evening firTnid.
trinidad colo. Sept "a. ltohCrt
Lee. marshal at Scgundo. e.. q. 81
company camp, twelve miles west ct
this city. was shut and Killed shortly
after noon today o. forc.rr coal
miner name unknown. who with two
other foreigners had bCcn dctec'c1 by
Ice In the act of tearing up small
iootbridgc az that camp I.eo was
shot from his horse. the bullet strik.
ing him in the breast and penetrating
lung, The foreigners made their
ape 10 The hills ana arr stll m
large. a posse has been organized
and iH securing the hills
The foreigners are strikers ana had
come into thc camp this morning from
one OF the n"ighboring camps Tho
foot bridge across Jn arroyu had been
but newly built The foreigners are
declared Go have attempted 60 destroy
tho bridge and Marshal Lee was nu-
tilted ANA rode up To- the men ON
horseback A. he drew within "a
few feet of the foreigners one OF them
fired Thp bullet dropped the mar.
shal aud he rolled from his horse,
dcud
John Thompson. bn electrician. WHO
ran tu the aid of the marshal was
shot at twice boy the foreigners iu their
\ light, but the bullets passed over his
All The shooting has caused "a fu-
lio of excitement and feeling is run
ming high
This De- the first outbreak since th
calling of the coal strike Following
tho shooting ut Scguudo. reports were
circulated thut the strikers in vuri-
Gus camps are armiug ana planning
Go murch ON the mines which are
still loo operation These rumors
while thry caused some uucasinoss
could not be- verified.
Marshal Lee, the dead man, Is one
ul tho oldest of the coal camp Off
ccrs in l.as Animas county
so change in the strike situation
has been reported The operators
SIM maintain that their mines are
being operated with small force OF
men and the officials ol the United
Mine workers says that ninety eight
pcr COM have Walk,d out A meet
ing was Rcld ut Star,N,,ie this morn
INK addressed by Mother Jones who
delivered an lmpassionod address in
which she utgod the miners to iight
unth death uud never surrender
PRESIDENT j. a. Wclborn of the Col
or"'o Fuel ana Iron company, this
S''oinooh ut Denver. issued the fol-
,u"'hs N1n'd statement relative to
'"' hu'Rs oi Robert Ice at Scgundo.
l'oneI' Ice who nos been IN the
employ of The Colorado rncl and IRON
company i"r several yeurs. was shot
aud Killed %, ~ o'clock today by one
OF i've who were together ana who
made their escape into the hilts
NO attack on the men had bcou
made by Lee as ne was on his horse
ot The time and the revolver was I'm
~ holster whom he was picked up
dead.
Lees character and habits were
above reproach"
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