The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-05-02
OCKEFELLER,S GUN \.
@:e MEN KILL WOMEN "
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- Hell Hound Linderfet, who
was brought to Colorado with ma
chine guns from West. Virginia and
commissioned by General Chase :saa
lieutenant in the state troops, hid
often asserted that he would get
Louie Tikas, who was too influen-
tiai' with the strikers-and he did.
Torch Applied to the Tents.
IN. many of the tents underground
cellars had been dug, into which the
women and children, unable to escape,
retreatcd to be out of range O.: tn,
mercfless fire of the machine guns.
All day they lay huddled, frightened
almost out of their senses, without
food or water, knowing not what fate
had fallen their fathers, brothers and
husbands.
Maj. Patrick J. Hammock, in 81
preme command of the militia, ap.
peared on the scene early in the day
and ERECTED the massacre. He con.
ducts a saloon in Denver and was an
ACTIVE. participant in the Cripple Creei
war. 1t is asserted upon reliable au-
thority that he gave the order for tho
torch to be applied to the tents, with
the cry: I'VE will exterminate every
man, woman and child Of the damned
red necks."'
Words fail to describe the awful
scenes that followed Trapped hu-
man beings were suffocated and
burned. their charred remains being
exposed to view Tuesday morning. 1t
was scene to startle the entire civ
ilized world. Passengers on trains
could see and even count the bodies.
AS if this unthinkable crime did
not satiate the fiends, Major Ham,
rock and Captain Linderfelt refused
to permit Red Cross nurses, doctors
or undertakers to enter the ruins to
give aid to any who might retin the
breath of life, or carry off the charred
bodies. It was not until Wednesday
afternoon when the fighting had
grown fierce at Delagua, that the
bodies could be carried out. In the
meantime many had been hidden
away and others destroyed by the
troops, who poured coal oil over them
and thus forever destroyed chance
of relatives or friends retaining
them.
District President John McLennan
and National Board Member John r.
Lawson, who were in Trinidad, were
not permitted to pass the guards and
| their appeals to Lieutenant Governor
Fitzgerald and Adjutant General
Chase in Denver were in vain. Gov
ernor Ammons was in Washington on
business for the CORPORATIONS, whose
! bidding he is ever ready to comply
with, and no word came from him to
relieve the situation.
! Hammock and Lindenfelt refused to
recognize Red Cross badges worn by
women who wanted to render aid to
suffering women and children within
the guard lines. A miner who ap-
preached under white flag to ask
that wounded be removed where aid
could be given was shot down.
Undertakers Turned Back.
| The eforteby undertakes to recover
the dead in the burned Ludlow colony
terminated when three wagons on the
| Ludlow road, north of Cedar hill,
| we're halted by volley of machine
gun bullets. A calf, grazing 20 feet
from the wagon. was killed and sew
eral Of the shots struck about the
wagon wheel and under the horses
feet. The drivers, wheeling their
horses about, piled their whips and
fed back toward Trinidad. The firing
! then stopped.
Late Wednesday afternoon the dead
wagons carried out the charred bo-
! dies Of 10 women and children and
foun men.
Among the dead were the family
of Charles Costa, union organizer at
Aguilar, and the family. of Mrs. Cha
vez, a Mexican woman, comprising
herself, two girls of and years, a
babyf6 months and, nephew 9.
! The family of Costa comprised him
self, his wife and two children, Lucy
and Orafrio 6.
Under the mass of ~charred bedding
at the bottom of the safety pit, from
which all Of the bodies were recovered
! Marcelino Pedrigon, Clardillo and
Rogerio 6, and the three Petrucci
| children, Lucy 3, Joe 4 and Frank 6
months.
The children were clasped in each
others arms and over them lay the
bodies of the two women, both badly
charred. Both of the women were to
be mothers soon..
Superficial examina ton of the re-
mainder Of the tents failed to dis
close other dead, but it is believed
more may be found.
| HuIlH8 TIE VlS1C fOl the searching
party John Nehemiah, district presi-
dent Of the United Mine Workers. was
twice arrested, searched and escorted
under guard: to the headquarters of
! the militia at the Ludlow station.
Battle All Day Wednesday.
For more than Il hours Wednes-
day the fighting ragged necessarily in
the Ludlow strike district first about
DelaEua then in the vicinity of the
Black Hills, and last in the region
about Aguilar. All the deaths so far
reported occurred during the Delagua
engagement, when Is mine guards>and
3 militiamen, under command of Cap
tain Carson, engaged in a series OF
fierce sorties and counter charges.
In this fighting Fred Dougherty,
Steve Donovan and Carl johnson, all
mine; guards employed blythe Victor
American Company, lost their lives.
/ Felix Gonzales and Joe Chavez, &C
icording to a statement given out at the
Victor-American office, are missing.