The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-23
DEADLY COMBAT BETWEEN THE STRIKERS AND MILITIA NEAR
 TRINIDAD, COLORADO.
SIX MINERS ARE KILLED
Entire Force of Colorado National Guard is Ordered Under Arms to Cope With the Situaton-Empire Camp is Reported Burned.


 employees dead; between 20 and 30 men, women and children reported 1 trapped in burning mine into which dynamite is being thrown by the strikers; several mining camps 1 destroyed and others riddled with bullets; less than 200 militiamen and company guards confronted by an army of strikers estimated by mine officials at more than 400-this was the situation when the sun set on the third red day in the southern Colo rado labor war.
 The dead on the side of the coal ! operators as definite as could be as- certained, was:
 William Waddell, superintendent of the Empire mine of the South western Fuel Company.
 John Church, engineer of the Elm pire mine.
 Unidentified miner killed at Elm pire.
 David Donovan. carpenter at the 1 Delagua mine of the Victor American | tuel Company.
 Fred Dougherty, guard at Delagua, found dead in the hills late today.
 Carl Johnson, employed at Delagua.
 Felix Gonzales and Joe Chavez, guards at Delagua, still are missing and are supposed to be dead some where in the hills above Hastings canyon.
 J. w. siple, manager of the Elm pire and Southwestern mines of the | Southwestern Fuel Company; Mrs. Waddell and Mrs. Mcintyre, wife of the camp blacksmith, are among those caught in the Empire mine when it was sealed and set afire. They entered the mine stope when an attack was made, to escape the bullets. WaddeH, Church and an un- identified man were killed in the attack.
 A newspaper correspondent at Aguilar reported that the entire Elm pire camp Mad been burned.
 A crowd of non-union miners with their wives and children were driven through the town of Aguilar by the strikers, this informant declared, and taken to the nearby tent colony where they were held prisoners.
 Strike leaders tonight asserted that only one of their fighting men had been killed during the days bat tie, and that two had been reported wounded.
 According to reports received by the military authorities, the fighting at Aguilar, which followed that at Delagua, was participated in by the same body of strikers.
 The firing at Delagua began soon after daybreak with clash between l5 guards and large body of min CTS. This fight occurred in the hills mile or more from the camp where | the guards are declared 70 have gone to meet the approaching strikers There was hot fighting at close range | for a few minutes and then the l guards retreated towards the camp, the pursuing strikers at their heels. | The strikers reached the crest of the canyon directly above the camp, then rushed for the mine buildings. Mine company reports declared that in this rush dynamite was exploded by the attacking party.
 A party of militiamen, hastily sent from Ludlow in steel cars, reinforced the guards and after heavy fighting the strikers were driven back. Shortly afterward a party of strik- CTS appeared in the Aeuilar district, separated from the Hastings-Delagua ! canyon by a high range of hills. The assailants of Delasua in the mean time had vanished in the direction of Agular. The attacks on the Aguilar mines followed.
 Trinidad was a scene of tense ex- citement tonight Tho saloons had been closed by order of the city council bet throngs of men still con- gregated on the streets. Labor head quarters were damned with strikers, mostly aliens, and the crowd over flowed to the sidewalks Many women and children from the Ludlow tent colony were in Trinidad cared for by union sympa- thizers. Throughout the day steady streams of strikers passed in and out of the morgue where lay the bodies of several victims of the Ludlow battle
 | A report received at the offices of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was that the train crew at the pow der plant at Augusta had declared that mine properties were afire and that heavy fighting had taken place in Green canyon.
 Shortly before o'clock tonight a | crowd of men, armed with rifles, left