The chronicle=news., 1914-04-29

tis~ss." he declared. Except for the
gsiiaatry sf my men. the mine would
have beca captured. We weys deter
miasd 10 fir. aatii every man was
dead or our ammunition wss OK.
hausted. I do not know how many
strikers wc killed. but we saw three
Greeks iumbie down the hin.
II asked aid fron, the militia. hut
they did not come last niEht. sad
have mot appeared yet
As the superintendent gave hi. nc.
eouat u tho battle. the wosaen aud
ehiidr-a. mast Of whom had vsntuF-
ed frosm their fortress In the assndoa.
ID tunn~i. crowded about the auto
mobile. paie-fsrcd sad lsrmtiiag.
Tho body of T. A. N-~n.Aa. With
. GApinx wound In the heat. lay Sn
the trsmSay track. tn. other bodies
~~rs aesr the upper ead Ut the camp.
n Vas near this point. os a hill
above the n,ine. shat the Loi, Of the
slain striker ~sA s-seu.
|. Jack Snsiih. one of the dead mine
guards. leaves = ~ife aud sN chill.
dr~n.
The ramp had b~~n warned late
last nixh' Of an imi'sadlas stsArk.
ssd had ,sispso1~d an urgent mes.
s,sv io the militia camp as Ludlow.
a s-~' mfiss a~s,. for assistance.
Superintendent tteb-rt Nishai put
III. forty ~ou,Va sad fify rhiidsea
Of tho sasap In the ,uaa-i OF sa
abandoned mia-. aaiii . barri.sd- Of
rock In ffoai of the opesins. armed
lis ni-n. nansb-fins forty. an DIRE
i.sr-a to jsfeaa the psus,-sts. The
s,sshine sas orae-i hy tho sosssaa,
va. nsunied on = hill north af The
camp.
The rnsb-s safar es,enas ihraash
a marrow canon for = di.sa~~e ot
n,os- than = mile. Th- ,irri-. -n-
gin- haa.s and s'tss- ssasd ~ shs
ao-a.eahea .aa. while shs T,rs
rsor-f sas n, lhs further ~sd.
Tn ..r-sin,-sd. nj t-s.sps guards
sns let ssssr II his nsa .i-srs
The attack .ans. ~ishauI ~srnias.
\ shas ga. heard ON the hills s.',Ih
ri tho ninr. ssd ~ an instant iai.
lets fosssa iaio lh- .ahar fsos, the
east. sosfh and vest. Thu defenders
sessssed the iis- sisrsnasiy. s~~~r-
leg the hits wish tho Wseh,re sss
rsSli ~ usswhsalaa tsm1es aud II
ieesme useiess.
Superintendent Ss~hol stayed 81
Sic house 9th shses snsai.ssipas. trie.
rLoaias for aid. until the ~ife sss
cut. Then he dAshed fos the Hit
~hss- his ssea ~ess pt,ias ,i!i.e and
-nsshiss saa.
A rasty ot sr~spsp~t pnra in an
suspasnhiis eassyiss = white flag -a.
v-rr-i the tuiscd esmp shortly b~f.sv
seoa. They were tho fsrss i~.s"a.
tsosn the ps,ssia~ 10 s~a.h the place.
and r~s~js~d the nsss detailed se.
count et the hattie. When the se~s.
rsrss sas tsu,c lat . tho ~smp. I@sss
spoa5rass ~esv xs~~s~d hv tho de.
tradrsS. ~ho s~assr~a trusa thsis ret.
ux~s ard sassuass-d tho asashiu~.
br. ". r. wonds. the s-mpsa,
I.hy.ieias. ~ss rastss fse lh- ~osad.
I'd. aaprs.airaa~et Michel. -~atiias
snoshcr attack. hsi his small foft-
Of defenders on guard. ruesmss,cr
Y. =. Cowds-f. ~ss cSsmisins the
ruin. of the mine ofs,c,. in which
the mail. fuetof,cc records aej stamp
supply had all bccn burned.
Mor- ihsa one hundred Of the
strikers that today participated IL
the battle a, Forbes ~crr srum the
Camp tsesaosr." the nc~ strikers
s1,"n. -NGk-f town. These strikers.
armed with rifles. ief, the camp last
nishs. Early this afternoon ''G-n-r-
al John brown. in charge Of the
tcnt colony admitted tha, . body oi
hi. "troops'' had left the camp last
nisht and returned on foot o. " the
hills thi. afternoon.