The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-28
Conditions in Colorado Coal
Fields Growing Worse.
Beyond Control Of tho Strikers
or the State.
FIGHTING IS CONTINUOUS
Much Blood Spilled and Prop
erty Losses Arc Heavy.


washiHgton. April 2s.-Prsddsnt
Wilson today decided to order federal
troops-to Colorado. to restore order in
the soal strike district. where virtual
civN war exists.
The decision was reached after the
president had gone over the Colorado
situation with his cabinet. during tho
greater part of q two hours session.
and q proclamation will be issued
later today, ordering federal soldiers
to the scene Of the industrial conflict.
The president and cabinet did not
take up the question Of an appropria-
ton for maintaining tho troops In the
strike district, but 1t Is expected the
Colorado legislature will consider the
matter when it meets in extra session
next week. When former President
Roosevelt sent troops to Nevada in
1907 to suppress violence at 0oldfield.
he insisted that the legislature appro-
pirate for the maintenance Of the
force.
At 2:30 o'clock Secretary Garrison
left the White House to 60 to tho war
orders for troops to the Colorado
strike region. A proclamation from
the president was being prepared for
announcement later.
h
ernor Ammons requests that the stAto
legislature. which IL to be convened
May 4, consider the whole situation %
that means may b. provided for tho
state to reassert its authority and to
limit the operation Of the federal
troops. The president asks also that
the militia be withdrawn temporarily
while the federal troops restore order.
Soldiers From Leavenworth.
The orders prepared by Garrison.
called for the detail Of troops from
Fort Leavenworth. Kansas to Trini-
Fort d. A. Russell. Wyo.. to Canon
City. At Fort Leavenworth the Sec
ond squadron Of the Fifth cavalry 10
stationed at Fort Russell, troops e and
H. Of the Twelfth Cavalry are await
ing orders.
One Dead; Three Wounded.
walsenburg, April 2&-One dead, one
probably fatally wounded and two
slightly wounded. was the toll Of fight
ing between strikers and mine guards
in this vicinity which began yesterday
after the McNally mine and during tho
mine on the edge Of the town. At IL
O'Clock the firing had ceased.
The Situation Today.
Trinidad, Colo, April ga force Of
$50 mflitiamen split into four divisions.
today was facing a body Of strikers es-
I1mdIeQ DIT I0OT0 IHdu ZsUOU 1nS StI1A.
ers' army was concentrated in Las
Animas and Huerfano countiee-the
! southern field-in Fremont county
where on Sunday the Chandler mine
was captured and in Boulder county.
the Lgnfte coal field north Of Denver.
| Adjutant General John Chase today
| divided the force Of 200 men he had
taken to Fremont county and went
| with 120 militiamen toward the north
ern field. The remainder Of this small
force stayed in Fremont county to
protect a number Of important mines.
| In Huerfano county 100 infantry and
cavalry were confronted by a force Of
some 400 miners which last night cap
| tured the McNa1ly mine and made an
attack on the Walsen property of the
| Colorado Fuel and Iron company.
At Ludlow, fifteen miles north Of
Trinidad. Colonel Edward verdeckberg
was in command of the main military
esta blishment with $50 men remaining
to protect the mines in Las Animas.
Sheriff Jefferson Farr Of Huerfano
| county said, shortly before II o'clock.
the firing at the Walsen mine had
ceased and that the militia had not
yet gone to the scene Of the figf1tihg.
He said one dead striker had been
brought to a Walsenburg morgue. All
seriously wounded strikers had been
taken to a hospital at Pueblo.
It was announced the militia authori-
ties would invite the United Mine
Workers to have witnesses present be-
fore the military command, who II in
lvestigating the battle Of Ludlow, to fix
the blame for the killing Of women and
children.