Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-22

behind were the objects of attack; how
Louis Takus was captured. killed by being
hit on the head with a gun. the barrel OF
which was broken by 1.-THE blow: that he
was shot four times in the back after he
was dead and that his face was stamped
on and crushed.
Women and Children Victims.
She told how the women and children
were buried in pits and that from one
of these eleven children and two women
were taken out burned to death; how a
boy while caressing his little sister had
the top OF his head shot off and his
brains were scattered over his brothers
and sisters: how she heard the wife of
an officer boasting over the telephone
now they had roasted twenty eight of
the dirty brutes alive: how appeals to
the sheriff. to the officers of the militia
and TO all authorities had been in vain.
Mrs. NJ. II. Thomas. who has brought
her two children TO Washington. mar
rated her experiences in rescuing women
and children. She was introduced by
Judge Lindsey as friend of LLOYD
George in her home in Wales. She told
of having lost all she had in Ludlow
f.Jnn and 156 wedding presents. besides
Bible from her father and bracelet
her mother had given her when she was
twelve wears old-all these looted from
her during less than ten months she was
in the coal fields. That's what Colo
RADIO has done for me. she calculated.
You don't mean Colorado. do you" You
mean John y. Rockefeller. ir.. Judge
Lindsey asked. To which she snapped
back: Well. who is it that owns Colo
RADIO? She told of being put into Jail
when she had gone to Trinidad on bust
ness the day of the protest parade
against Mother Jones-and Mother Jones
was in the audience herself last night
that for more than two hours fifty militia
men guarded her in the street and that
she was literally flung into filthy cell
She said she sent a litter to Gen. Chase
which he paid no attention to. She was
kept in Jail for eleven days.
a few days before the battle she said
the United States flag had been hauled
down from the military tent and a red
flag run up. showing the mine guards
placing fifty women and children on the
landings of well $50 feet deep, and
going with twenty others to hide in a
stable where they were under the fire of
machine guns for nearly twentyfour
hours
Loaded Guns of Defenders.
They were defended by four Greeks
And I filled their rifles for them. and
don't care who knows it, she burst forth.
She told of a mother giving birth to
child out on the prairie, while the SOL
diers shot at her; she told of her own
hair being shipped off by shots; she told
of an eight-mile tramp by night with
many children to escape to Trinidad,
where the women were very kind to them
But we want more than charity she
calculated, I'VE want justice"
Mrs. Lee Champion. wife of district
judge in Colorado. who went to Lud-
low as chairman of the woman's relief
committee, bore testimony that all that
these women had told was absolutely
true" She said a saloon had been de-
molished and $1.2O worth of liquor used
up. She described the ravages at the
blood-mad orgie of the corporation
guards She said she had placed aft
davits in Judge Lndsey's hands to prove
that the miners tents were set on fire.
She said she was told that twenty per-
sons missing would probably be found
in the coke ovens or a deep we'll, but
the authorities prevented her from prose-
cutting the search. She was told that
there are LOCO women in Trinidad ready
to fight for their lives and honor. She
told that attempts had been made to
bride her to suppress her report.
Representative Mcdonald Of Michigan
spoke on unbelievable conditions in Colo
RADIO, as well as in the copper mine
regions of his own state; "and this is
not Russia but the United States" He
condemned the forces of society that
are suppressing attempts to clear up
these atrocities He said a crook must
be recognized as crook. whether he is
a multimillionaire or poor miner
Representative Evans told of his own
experiences when he went to Trinidad
and Ludlow and confirmed much Of the
story told by other speakers. He visited
Mrs. Thomas in Jail there. He criti-
cised the importation Of machine guns
and the employment of gunner and plug
uglies, the riffraff of the brute world.