The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-22
Thirty-Three Known Dead and a
Score Missing as the Re-
suit Of Industrial
War.
BURNED UP
MARVEL WOMEN
Battle Expected to be Resumed To-
day and 10 to be
Flight to the
Death.

United Press Leased Wire Service.l
DENVER, Colo, April 22.-All Colo
RADIO shuddered with horror today as
the details of the fourteen hour battle
fought at Ludlow Monday were re-
yealed in newspaper dispatches from
Trinidad and official reports to acting
Governor Fitzgerald from the militia
men in the field.
Thirty-three known dead, more than
| two-thirds Of whom are women and
children, score missing and more
than score wounded-this Is the toll
| taken by the battle which the United
Mine Workers and other labor organi-
cations have already named "the
slaughter Of innocents.' With arms
ready, both sides at day light today
awaited resumption of thu blood let
| ting and fears we're expressed that
should it be renewed, the slaughter
will equal If it does not exceed, that
of Monday. Several companies OF
militia, recruited from mine guards
employed by the coal operators are
encamped at Ludlow. Monday they
drove the strikers from their tent
colony at Ludlow and 1t is charged,
set fire to the tents, thereby causing
the greatest loss of life. Early today,
Trinidad dispatches say they were
preparing for a machine gun sortie
from tn cir position along the Colo
RADIO and Southern railway tracks at
each side OF the Ludlow railroad sta
ton. On the surrounding hills, shell
tered by rocks and boulders, 400 strik-
ers awaited their coming while their
ranks were being swellsd by grim
! faced men who had tramped overland
in the darkness, carrying guns and
ammunition from neighboring union
camps. Italian, Greek and Austrian
miners have appealed to their con-
sular representative for protection.
The Red Cross has been telegraphed
to be ready to render aid.
If another battle is fought its out
come may determine the fate of the
strike OF union coal miners in Colo
RADIO. Both sides face 1t as battle
to the death, without thought Of quar-
ter. Major P. j. Hammock, command.
ing the troops at Ludlow reported to
Adjutant General Chase curing the
night that thirty-three persons had
| been killed. He was not in posi-
ton to state, he said, what the strik-
ers losses had been. He said his
force were surrounded on all sides
by the strikers lines which extend
back three miles.
In Trinidad the situation is scarcely
less acute Strikers crowded about
the union headquarters and with the
image of flaming tents of Ludlow be-
fore their eyes, demanded guns and
cried for an opportunity to attack the
mine guards and militia.
Ludlow camp is mass OF charred
debris and buried under 1t is story
of horror unparalleled in American
industrial war. .-
| In holes dug under tents, dug for
their protection from the rife and
machine gun fire, women and children
perisheG when the flames swept over
| their colony. One pit, uncovered late
Yesterday, disclosed the bodies o.
thirteen children and two women.
! During the horrible conflagration, a
little girl aged I, ran aimlesly about
! the camp while the bullets poured In,
until insane with fright she leaped in
| to one of the pits and never emerged
alive. James Fyler, president OF the
! Ludlow local of the miners died with
| bullet through his forehead as he
was trying to rescue his wife from
the flames.
..x;,r rorarpor Eitzparra1d today
asked District President McLannan to
arrange truce. Adjutant Generaf
Chase has telegraphed Governor Am
mons. in Washington. urging him to
/ cali spet ial session Of the legisla-
ture to appropriate monay for send
ing more militia into the field.
Maybe Fifty are Dead.
! TRINIDAD. Colo, April 22.-There
may he fifty dead as the result OF the
! fourteen hour battle fought Monday
; st Ludlow between coal mine strikers
and several companies Of state militia.
| This was the statement made today
NV officials here who have received
information from Ludlow. Further in
yestigation of the ruined tent colony
at Ludlow which was swept by a de-
vastatins fire during the battle, has
revealed further horrors especially
the bodies of women and children.
United Mine Workers officials assert
that they bell eve the fatalities will be
at least fifty. mostly women and chill
dren burned to death or suffocated by
the fire.
Early today train from Denver, on
which were numerous newspaper men
lstopp I'd at Ludlow. Miltiamen, COM