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the c. G s. E. Major Hammock not
being able to get General Chase on
the long distance from military head
quarters, as the line had been cut,
succeeded in getting General Chase
shortly after one o'clock at the office
of the Cedar Hill Coal & Coke Com
pany near Ramey. He was notified
by General Chase that achievements
would come out during the afternoon
from Trinidad with more ammunition.
Captain T. G. Linderfelt and Lieu
tenant r. J. Linderfelt, having ar
rived about noon, were left in COM
mand at the Ludlow station by Lieu
tenant X. e. Linderfelt who returned
to Water Tank Hill, Lieutenant Bige-
low being sent to work with Captain
T. c. Linderfelt by orders of Major
Hammock.
Several times during the afternoon
small details under the command Of
Captain T. G. Linderfelt, aided by
Lieutenants R. j. Linderfelt and Bige-
low, were able to push their way
through to the north end Of the string
of box cars and freight cars standing
in the yards west of the depot, but
were unable to go any further because
of the fire they received from the rifle
pits on the south side Of the tent
colony, the tent colony and those
northwest Of the tent colony in the
direction of the pump house and the
steel bridge.
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Of Martin, a Colorado
Soldier Boy,

MutiIation OF Martin, Colorado
Soldier Boy.
Captain Carson arrived from Trini-
dad with about thirty-six men with
ammunition and a second machine
gun, which was in use during the
fight. Captain Carson detrained at
Rameyville and Immediately advanced
to the aid of Lieutenant Lawrence on
Water Tank Hill. AFTER CAPTAIN
cARSoN's ARRIVAL SEVERAL AT.
TEMPTs WERE MADE BY LIEU.
TENANT LAWRENCE TO RECOVER
MARTINS BODY BUT WITH NO
SUCCESS AND HIS BODY WAS
NOT RECOVERED UNTIL NINE
O'CLOCK THAT EVENING BY
L !!; LAWRENCE dAWREMcE, .. IN =
THE WOUND THROUGH THE NECK
REcTLY ABOVE THE BODY
THROUGH THE MOUTH, TEARING
OUT TWO TEETH AND BLOWING
OFF THE BACK OF HIS HEAD.
HIS FACE HAVING BEEN cAvED
IN BY THE BUTT END OF A RIFLE,
NOSE BEING BROKEN AND HE
WAS BLEEDING At BOTH EARS.
HE HAD ALSO BEEN SHOT TWICE
THROUGH THE BODY At THE
WAIST.
The strikers holding a position In
the cut ON the Colorado & South
eastern were forced out Of this po-
sition in the direction of Barnes on
the D. G R. G. about five o'clock in
the afternoon. About the same time
orders were given to Captain T. G.
Linderfelt and the officers with him
at the Ludlow depot to aid in the TAX
ing Of the steel bridge over the ar
roya northwest of the tent colony,
as Lieutenant Benedict had been able
to force his way from the west and
occupied a position in a couple of
ranch houses about four hundred
yards west of the bridge. Captain T.
C. Lnderfelt with Lieutenants Bige-
low and r. J. Linderfelt with ten
men, taking advantage of the cover
afforded by the c. & 8. E. tracks, had
been able to take up position Just
south Of the road going west to Hast
ings, about seventy to eighty yards
southwest Of the tent colony. About
this time Captain Carson arrived with
support and took up a position on
the right of Captain Linderfelt. Dur
ing this time they received very
hot fire from the strikers located in
the pits in the southwest of the tent
colony and those in the tent colony
proper.
The two machine guns which had
been placed, one on the east side of
Water Tank Hill and the other at
the cut on the C. &. 8. e. which had
been taken, were firing at the steel
bridge and the rife pits along the
south bank Of the arroyo. The troops.
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under Captains T. c. Linderfelt and
Carson, returned the fire Of the strik-
ers located in the pits along the south
bank OF the tent colony, volley firing
directly into the tent colony.
Tent Colony Catches Fire and Set
OF Explosions.
1t was at this time that the first
tent at the southwest part of the
colony caught fire. The fire shot up
through the roof of the tent, and at
this time there were no troops east
OF the G. & 8. tracks. Several of the
men were able to get across the Hast
ings road underneath the water tank.
Throughout the night there were con-
slant explosions Of ammunition, giant
powder and dynamite In the tent
colony The fire was also aided by
strong wind from the southwest, Al.
ter the sixth or seventh tent was afire,
tho cries Of women and children
were heard from the tent colony.
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that Is located twelve miles north
west Of Trinidad.

that is located twelve miles north
west Of Trinidad.
On the 2sth day of April about
Ave o'clock in the afternoon an
Italian called up his brother at the
Forbes mine from the union head
quarters at Trinidad and told his
brother, who Is q non-union man. that
he had better get away because the
strikers were going to come up that
night and burn up the Forbes mine.
Mr.. Nickel said: when received
this notice sent three men to
the lower end and three to the
upper end to guard the mine
buildings, and put the women
into the mine tunnel and sent
twelve miners there to protect them;
we had no mine guards whatever and
had to depend upon volunteers. and
I and a few others went to the build
ing where the telephone was. We
guarded all night and until about
$3.50 in the morning. While standing
in front of my house large number
of strikers who had taken their po-
sition on the hill tops above the mine
building and dwelling houses began
firing fusilade Of bullets at us and
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THE STORY OF LUDLOW
TOLDFOR THE FIRST TINE

The fighting at Ludlow lasted from
early Monday morning, April 20, until
late Friday evening, April "a, at
which time General Chase arrived
with the reinforcements and q truce
was declared. Monday morning,
few minutes after eight o'clock, a let
ter was presented at headquarters at
Ludlow by a woman of foreign nation
ality, asking that her husband be
gotten out of the tent colony. Many
times previous to this various people
had been taken out Of the tent colony
by troops stationed at or near Lud-
low. The Corporal, Patten. in charge
of the train detail was sent to the
Ludlow tent colony to get this man
and in the Ludlow tent colony was
told that there was no such man in
the colony. Returning he informed
Major Hammock of this. Major Ham.
rock called Louie Tikas, the Greek.
by phone asking him to come over to
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into the houses. These strikers had
red bandana handkerchief tied about
their heads. Among them was tall
man wearing an overcoat and bearing
a white flag. This man seemed to be
the leader and from time to time
waved the white flag in the air, and
as he did this the strikers on the hills
fired their rifles; the air was full Of
bullets. One crashing through the
sash went over my left arm; as l
stepped into another room another
come through the wall binding me
with the plaster dislodged. While
standing near the door another bullet
crashed through carrying splinters
into my hands. Over forty bullets
passed through the house while I
was there, and how escaped being
killed I do not know. The shooting
continued from the miners on the hill
tops; could see the tall man still
continuing to wave his flag and vol
ley after volley of shots resounded
almost constantly from this hill and
from the other hills around the camp
and this continued until about 6:46
a. m; then they seemed to run out
Of ammunition. then went to the
mine tunnel where the women were:
they were safe but crying and hys-
terical. From that point I saw great
black clouds of smoke rising from
the buildings in the vicinity of the
upper portion of the camp. ana
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greatly outnumbered by the strikers
east Of him and those along the D. &
r. G. tracks, he was forced to retire
from his position on the small knoll
after having had one of the members
of his command, Private Purcell,
wounded, Private Purcell being hit by
a soft nosed bullet in the left arm q
little over two inches below the
sLoulder, which coming in contact
with bone, part Of 1t lodged in the
chest, the other in the back.
After Lieutenant Lawrence had re-
turned to Water Tank Hill, Lieuten-
ant X. e. Linderfelt forced his way
down to the Ludlow depot, taking up
q position at that point, having three
or four men with him and delivering
q fire into the west end Of the cut of
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underwear and had a bullet hole
his breast. This Jap and the
others had worked in the mine for
about i've months. About twenty
feet further on up the tram track I
found the body Of Edward Kestler
lying near one of the burning build
ings. Kestler was lying on his back
and the flesh was burned OF his
legs. his head was burned and his
Flesh Burning on Limbs Of lUnof.
Tending Citizen.
face blackened. his clothes were
burned of. Kestler was the mine
engineer about forty-flve years Of
age, married and had wife and two
children living in Denver. He had
been working at the mine for about
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camp, which Louie refused to do.
As the people in the tent colony
were gathered around in small groups
in rather . suspicious manner. Lieu
tenant lawrence, who was in COM
mand of the detachment stationed at
Cedar Hill one and one-half miles
southwest Of Ludlow, was notified by
telephone to come down . little
earlier than usual for drill. Louie,
the Greek, called up Major Hammock
stating that he would meet him at
the depot, Major Hammock accepting
and going to the depot. Lieutenant
Lawrence was again called on the
phone by Hammock and orders given
to bring the machine gun, and Lieu
tenant Lawrence left Cedar Hill in
command of the advanced guard
which consisted of ten men. Upon
arriving near Ludlow he left these
men on Water Tank Hill while he
rode on to Ludlow depot to report to
Major Hammock. Lieutenant Law
renee called Major Hamrock's atten.
ton that groups Of the strikers were
armed with rifles and carried ammu-
milton and were running back and
forth. some of them having started
for the cut on the Colorado & South
eastern, which is east of Ludlow.
1ue luHlu NHllouAl NudTu UOuy hi'
rived from Cedar Hill under the COM
mand of Lieutenants X. E. Linderfelt
and NJ. c. Bigelow and consisted Of
fifteen men.
Louie Tikas left Major Hammock.
telling him that he would stop the
strikers. MAJOR Hammock gave Lieu
tenant Lawrence orders to take up
position on Water Tank Hill and i'm
mediately upon returning to Water
Tank Hill from the depot Lieutenant
Bigelow was sent with seven men to
take up a position south of the Colo
RADIO G Southeastern cut, Lieutenant
K. E. Linderfelt returning upon
Water Tank Hill proper and Lieu
tenant Lawrence swinging over to the
right of the D. G R. G. tracks with
five men. The strikers, about three
hundred in number, having gained the |
cover of the cut on the Colorado & |
Southeastern, opened fire on the de-
tachments under Lieutenants Law
renee and Bigelow. Immediately af-
ter another large group of strikers
which had gone north and northwest
from the tent colony toward the ar
roya and the steel bridge, opened fire
on the military camp at Ludlow which
was southwest of the tent colony.
Before the firing started q large group
of women and children, numbering
about four hundred, left the tent
Strikers Opened Battle on Colorado
National Guard.
colony running northwest to the ar
roya. There were about thirty shots
fired at tho detachments Of the Ma.
tional Guard south and southeast of
the cut on the Colorado & South
ga stern under Iieutananta Ripelow
and Lawrence,before the order was
given TO commence firing. General
Chase had been called on the long
distance by Lieutenant Benedict,
Major Hamrock's adjutant, from the
military headquarters at Ludlow,
notifying the General that firing had
started. Major Hammock, after re-
turning from the depot to the military |
camp at Ludlow, took up a position
near cars south of this camp on the
Colorado G. Southeastern, from which
point he could see very we'll the po-
sitions being taken by his own men.
Soon after firing started, three bombs |
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which had been provided to use in
calling assistance, were set on and
Lieutenant Benedict was sent up
Hastings canon to the west to take
charge Of the men who would come
to the Guards assistance from that
point, belonging to Troop A. None
Of the eighteen men who came out OF
Hastings canon, members Of Troop
A, were employed a. mine guards
but were employees at the mine, one
doctor, several mechanics and
miners. On the right of the line q
member Of Lieutenant Lawrence's
command, Private Martin, received a
wound in the neck. Lieutenant Law
renee was forced back from his po-
sition on the extreme right, being
forced to withdraw without the body
of the wounded Martin, whom he left
in a small draw. AS Lieutenant Law
renee had been forced back on the
extreme right the strikers had been
able to deliver a cross-fire on Lieu
tenant Bigelow, whose position was
south of the Colorado & Southeastern
cut, forcing Lieutenant Bigelow to
retire from that point. Retiring,
Lieutenant Bigelow swung around to
the right meeting Lieutenant Law
renee and received orders to take up
a position upon knoll which was
less than $50 yards west of another
point occupied by the strikers and to
do what he could to recover the
wounded Martin, who lay in draw
between these two points, Lieutenant
Lawrence retiring and taking up a.
position 600 yards to the rear, cover
Ing the position held by Lieutenant
Bigelow.
AS Lieutenant Bigelow had but five
men with him at this point and was
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them on fire, and destroyed the
property. A long time after that
there were arrests Of men made for
these acts of arson, but 1t was only
because the postoffice at the South.
western mine was destroyed at the
same time and the federal authorities
acted. The district attorney of Las
Animas county, either through fear
or from his strike sympathies. had
neglected to do anything. The South
western was not John D. Rookie
Teller property and the improve
ments valued at sixty thousand dol
lars. were placed upon 1t by Mr..
Siple and his associates. AL of this
went up in flames, entailing q total
lss of surface Improvements. q
necessitating great future expense
in restoring the property to working
condition.
General Chase, moved by the as
surance Of Lawson and others that
they would disarm their followers as
soon as the mine guards were dis
armed, proceeded to disarm the lat
ter. This was easily done, as he
says in his able report Upon the
occupation of the coal strike zone OF
Colorado" to the congressional COM
mittee. '"They were assembled by
their employers and promptly turned
over the high powered rifles" And
he adds: II carried DISARMAMENT
ON with respect to the mine guards
and the employees Of the operating
companies in every camp throughout
the entire strike zone, and speedily
and easily finished the complete dis.
armament of that side" General
Lawson that the strikers would now
surrender their arms. Troops were
marched to Ludlow-the largest tent
colony In the strike district-and they
were received with open arms, but
lack of the arms they wanted. He
continues: "Eany Of the men were
in the strange costume of Greek,
Montenegrin, Servian and Bulgarian
armies" His report did not include
tho battle Of Ludlow and other ter
rible affairs occurring after the with
drawal Of the troops, but that he had
precedence of what would occur Is
shown by this passage:
1--WE passed by Ludlow. occu-
pied the Berwind and Hastings
canons, and then returned to the
colony to receive the surrender
of the hundreds Of high-power
Ilu6D Know Iu0 StIAAG10 W W
possessed Of. At this point oc-
CURED the first instance Of bad
faith ON the part Of the striking
people. Expecting to receive
hundreds, II not thousands, Of
arms, there were delivered into
my possession some twenty or
thirty weapons. many Of them of
obsolete pattern, the strikers
topping OF the humor OF the stu
alton By including In the delivery
of arms . child's toy pop-gun.
Since that time the recovery Of
the strikers arms has been at
tended with the greatest Difficult
ty; 1t has been game Of hide
and-seek, and while 1 have been
able to recover q few at time,
large number Of high-power
weapons belonging to the union.
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a year and half. Next found the
body of Jack Smith, q coal miner.
He had a wife and SIX children. He
had been killed by a bullet, had been
shot through the right leg just above
the knee, his leg was broken and he
was also shot through the head.
Then there were the bones OF
Japanese in a burning building.
The flesh was burned of and they
were SO black and charred you would
hardly recognize them as q human
skeleton. Back of the rock supply
house were the bodies Of two other
Japanese. Both were dressed in their
underwear and each had been killed
by bullet. The substation was on
fire. Then noticed at the barn
there were the bodies of twenty-four
mules and two horses in the places
where they were tied, the bodies in
every imaginable shape. Three mules
and three horses out in an enclosure
had been shot. We then went toward
the twenty.rooned rooming house,
it was in flames. Then we went to
the tipple at the lower end Of the
mine. Found the body of Newman.
the blacksmith, lying on his back;
all of his head above his eyes and
ears was shot away; he had been
shot from behind by q soft nosed
bullet. His wife was up with the
other women in the mine. found
that all the buildings at the lower
end were burning. found the
strikers had IRE brigade, and after
shooting awhile they sent their fire
brigade down; this fire brigade wore
white strips of cloth over their
shoulders down the front and back;
this was done SO the strikers on the
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from various hiding places. will
state that there are hundreds Of
guns still concealed and waiting

from VaTlOub u1uluS pAAC0cs WA
state that there are hundreds OF
guns still concealed and waiting
occasion for use."
The troops were called into Trini-
dad ON October 31st to prevent the
massacre of the mine guards who had
been disarmed by General Chase,
who assembled them at the Coronado
Hotel preparatory to giving them
safe escort out Of the district. A
great crowd gathered. threatening
vengeance on the disarmed guards.
Five or six hundred Of the mob were
there. and made no secret Of their
determination to get" the guards.
General Chase says: "Notwithstand.
ing the promises Of Mr.. Lawson and
other strike leaders that induced my
disarmament of the mine guards. they
then rather gleefully assured me
That they could not control their peo-
Ole and that the feeling among the
strikers, thirsting for the blood OF
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hills would know them and not shoot
them. Some of the people were taken
prisoners, men and women, and later
escaped.
1 will not take time to tell you Of
the robberies and horrors they went
through. After killing nine people,
burning all these buildings. the two
hundred and fifty strikers marched
back in broad daylight into the city
of Trinidad.
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| COLORADO has 49,
y OOO,OOO,OOO 1.-TWO
Hundred and Nineteen
Billion tons of coal I'M
mined, according to the
U. S. Geological survey,
and yet an armed organ
ization says owners of a
few thousand acres of
coal land shall not be al
lowed to mine coal. Colo
RADIO can supply the en-
tire world with coal for
three centuries at the
present rate of consump-
ton. Let's give some
one a chance to mine
some of it.
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others went up there. AS l ap-
preached 1t I saw three Of the dwell
ing houses burning, saw the barn and
other structures in the upper canon
on fire; the air was thick with smoke
and the heat was intense. AS l ap-
preached the three dwelling houses
I noticed the body Of a Japanese; he
was lying on his back with his arm
over his face. He was dressed in his
The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-02
SOME SOUND ADVICE.

There is much good common sense m the following, which is taken from the Overcup correspondence of the Morrilton Headlight this week:
 "I realize that crops are short and Q that times are going to be close with the people, and that it will affect every channel of industry, but there is no one who cannot afford to lay away S1 50 for the fair. If that much was spent by 5000 people it would mean $4,500, and there are plenty of people who will spend $1.50 to see dog show or watch a clown act a fool. Then why not spend that much to benefit yourself and the county? Some are saying that they cannot get mon ey to take in the fair. Where there's a will, there's a way. know some little girls in Washington township who have worked to get money to patronize the fair. Misses Martha and Claire Bailey have picked and sold $275 worth of muscadines in or der to get money to spend at the fair and they are small children. There IS enough time spent on the streets of Morrilton by a lot of people, squirting tobacco juice on the side walks. making slight remarks about refined lady, also blaming the mer- chants and bankers for the hard times and high prices, that if their time was properly utilized they would have a little extra change to make it pleasant for their families, and they could become factors in making the fair a success
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within him. He must fight against her as he would fight against any one else, as he had fought against the very world
 And Lucille felt the change, felt it and redoubled her effort to get the secret of the stolen papers The spirit of the game was In her, and she yield ed grudging admiration for the cum ming of the man who, even In his most acute suffering. managed to conceal everything from her. Even in deirium his powerful brain resisted her sug- gestions, her hints. And in one of her days of ministration to him she discovered the diary in which he had entered his strange worldwide actions
 The international spy was able to walk about his room now, his eyes showing the satisfaction he felt at thwartng her. They played chess to gether, dined together, with always the armed deference between them, state of mind so obvious as to have been ludicrous had they not both been so conscious of it. Many times she thought the strain was more than she could bear. when she doubted the wis dom of this trip. And always would come morbid pictures of her sweet heart to sustain her in her determna- tion to clear him of the charge under which he rested.