Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-05-08
L, S. TROOPS HOLD.
COLORADO MINES
Strike War CeastS as Cavalry
men Reach Scene
THEY NET NO RESISTANCE
FoIrteen Men Were Killed In WedneS-
Fourteen Men Were Killed In Wedne5-
days Fighting Between Strikers and
Guards.

Guards.
Hostilities in the southern mining
district OF Colorado have ceasea
abruptly. Federal troops are now on
guard. The trained soldiers met with
no resistance when they took posses
sion of the zone in which many battles
have been waged for the past ten days
with loss of many lives.
The troops from Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming, are in charge OF the Ere
mont county district, and the TIM
dad district, in which the hardest
fighting occurred, is patrollel by 5'0
cavalrymen from Fort Leavenworth.
Search of the hills in the Waisen-
burg and Forbes zones, in which
battle ragged all day Tuesday and wed
nesday, disclosed the fact that four-
teen men had lost their lives in that
engagement. Five bodies were founo
at Walsenburg and nine were recoV'
cred at Forbes.
The strikers at many points haVo
surrendered their arms after being as
sured that they would not be taken In
to custody.
Among the first to turn over their
weapons to the authorities were the
$50 strikers who for eight days had
fought the militia in the vicinity OF
Walsenburg. A truce was arranged
there and Major General Chase with
drew the militia when apparently they
had the strikers hard pressed.
Although under the terms of the
truce the strikers we're not taken into
custody, they will be subject to prose
cution in the courts for the killing OF
Major P. P. Lester, of the militia hos
pital corps, who was shot down while
attending a wounded soldier.
The battle at Walsenburg was be-
tween 100 state soldiers, divided into
two commands, and more than 400
strikers entrenched in rifle pits behind
the lava formation of the hills, which
form a semi-circle around Walsenburg.
The militia had started to the Walsen
mine, at the far end Of the ridge, to
aid in the defense of that property.
Under Lieutenant Scott, one detach-
ment advanced along the hills. Cap,
tain Swope commanded the other,
which followed at a considerable dis
tance in the rear. The soldiers were
armed with rifles and service reVoly-
ers, and proceeded without thought OF
attack.
Suddenly from the rifle pits came a
rain of bullets over the heads of the
first detachment Lieutenant Scott
drew his men up in fighting line and
ordered the fire returned. Soon he saw
that the attacking force greatly out
numbered his men, and he ordered his
men into the arroyo.
For two hours more the fighting
continued, and finally the strikers
withdrew, carrying their guns with
them.
Preliminaries of peace In the south
ern Colorado strike zone was arrang-
ed in a conference between Mayor Hol-
brook and John Brown, Armando Pel1-
zarri, William Diamond and Frank T.
Miner, for the strikers.
The strikers conferees said they
had agreed to cooperate with the reg
ulars in restoring peace. They declar-
ed that there had been general un-
derstanding that they would not per-
NIT their men to bear arms in public
or in the tent colonies. They said, how
ever, that the subject of delivering up
arms to the United States troops had
not been broached. ~