The chronicle=news., 1914-06-27
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complishment without bloodshed. had
my entrance been disputed.
THE parade OF the troops at the
Ludlow tent colony was memorable.
The road for half-mile or more be-
tween the point of detraining and
the entrance to the colony was lined
on either side by men, women and
children. Many OF the men were in
the strange costumes of the Greek.
Montenegrin. Servian and Bulgarian
armies: for the colony numbered
among its Inhabitants many returned
veterans of the Balkan wars.
"The little children were dressed
in white, as for Sunday-school pic
mic. All carried small American
flags and sang continually the Union
songs. Through this line of men,
women and children the troops pa
raded-infantry. cavalry and field
artillery. Flags were waved in well
come. and an improvised band of the
strikers heralded our approach.
I'VE passed by Ludlow. occupied
the Berwind and Hastings canons.
and then returned to the colony to
receive the surrender of the hundreds
of high-power rifles l knew the
strikers to be possessed Of.
First Instance Of Bad Faith.
AT this point occurred the first
instance of bad faith On the part Of
the striking people. Expecting to
receive hundreds. If not thousands Of
arms. there were delivered into my
possession some twenty or thirty
weapons, many of them of obsolete
pattern, the strikers topping off the
humor of the situation by including
in the delivery of arms a child's toy
pop-gun.
Since that time the recovery Of
the strikers arms has been attended
with the greatest difficulty; 1t has
been game of hide-and-seek, and
while I have been able to recover, q
few at time, large number of
high h-power weapons. belonging to
the union. from various hiding plac-
es, ! will state that there are hum
dreds of guns still concealed and
waiting occasion for use.
I'm the meantime ! had upon my
hands IL large number of the mine
guards whom had disarmed. and
who. being defenseless, in the pres
ence of enemies thirsting for their
blood. had to receive protection.
These mine guards undertook to
ship out of the strike zone. For that
purpose | assembled number of
them in Trinidad. On the evening
of the 31st of October ] had in the
Corinado Hotel at Trinidad num-
ber of mine guards who had been dis
armed and were awaiting train to
take them out of the country.
Notwithstanding the representa-
tions made to me concerning the dis
armament of the detested mine
guards. and when I had rendered
them helpless by disarming them,
all OF which was known to the strik-
=, ing miners. great crowd gathered
around the Corinado Hotel in which
these disarmed men were contained.
for the avowed purpose of reeking
condign vengeance upon their enc
mics. thus. as they supposed, deliv-
cred into their hands.
The Corinado Hotel Riot.
Some five or six hundred men as
sembled around the Corinado Hotel
with the express design of killing
the disarmed and defenseless guards
within. This is what is known as
the Corinado Hotel riot.
Notwithstanding all of the fair
promises of Mr.. Lawson AMI other
strike leaders that induced me to dis
arm the mine guards first. they then
rather gieefully assured me that they
could not control their people, and
that the feeling among the strikers,
thirsting for the blood Of the mine
guards, was such as could not be
stayed by any influence of the lead
ers.
| 81 found it necessary upon this oc-
casion to assemble infantry and cav
airy in the streets OF Trinidad, and
to disperse the mob thus bent upon
wholesale murder, and to protect the
disarmed mine guards until they
could take the train out of the dis
trct. Fortunately, was able to
quell this riot and prevent large loss