The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-23
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 why he held Carindo Tuttcimando against his will Answered no such man enrolled. Telephoned Louis to meet me at camp, he refused to see me under any cir cumstanees. telephoned Lieutenant Lawrence to bring Cedar Hill detachment to drill. Louis must have tapped wire for he telephoned he would meet me at the railway station. I arrived at the sta ton at $50 Lieutenant Lawrence re- ported with detachment and machine guns. On the Way I ordered him to as- semble and drill in the vicinity. Then Louis arrived. Saw 300 armed men leay- ing colony going south. Women and chill dren took cover in arroyo. Told Louis to get control of his men. He said all right and went to the colony. I went to the camp to telephone General Chase. Told Lieutenant Lawrence to take position. on Water Tower hill southeast: saw Louis with glasses and gun in hand signal men in the colony to take cover in the arroya north I started to the railway station with only three men in camp. Strikers in arroya and colony opened fire on camp. One hundred and fifty shots Lieu tenant Benedict telephoned General Chase from camp. Strikers going south opened fire on Lieutenant Lawrence who went into action and returned the fire Men. who Were watering horses with Corpora; Mills opened fire in left flank. Held strikers in check all day The men were fired on. the first time about 5;30
 Small Explosion
 ''At s64o fire started from a small ex- plosion in a tent when our troops were 400 yards south. All strikers left in the colony retreated to arroya north. Dur ing the evening Captain Carson, Lieuten- ant Linderfelt with detail, made dashes into the burning colony under fire of
 
 dren left by the strikers that could be found. At night we occupied and still hold the line of the Colorado and South ern railway
 Trinidad, Col. April 22-Six mine em- ployes dead and two missing; three men, two women and a baby reported to be cntombed in burning mine; several min ing camps destroyed and others riddled with bullets; less than 200 militiamen and company guards confronting an army of striking coal miners estimated by strike leaders at more than 400-ths was the situation when the sun set on the third rod day in the southern Colorado labor war.
 The list of dead on the side of the coal operators as the result of the days fight ing. as near as could be estimated. was:
 William Waddell, superintendent of the Empire mine of the Southwestern Fuel company.
 2 John Church, engineer of the Empire mine.
 Unidentified miner killed at Empire
 David Donovon, carpenter at the Dela- qua mine of the Victor American Fuel company.
 Fred Dougherty guard at Delagua, found dead in the hills late today.
 Carl Johnson, employed at Deagua
 Folk Gonzales and Joe Chavez, guards at Delagua. still are missing, and were supposed to be dead somewhere in the hills above Hastings canyon.
 Fire Reported
 A persistent but unconfirmed report had it that J. w. Simple, manager of the Empire and Southwestern mines of the Southwestern Fuel company, with two women, a baby and two men, had been sealed in the Empire mine, which then had been set on fire by strikers
 Strike leaders tonight asserted that only one of their fighting men had been killed during the days battle and that two had been reported wounded.
 According to reports received by the military authorities, the fighting at Aguilar, which followed that at Della qua was participated in by the same body of strikers
 The firing at Delagua began soon af- ter udyDItdh Wltn d cldSH between 10 guards and a large body of miners The fight occurred in the hills a mile or more from the camp, where the guards are declared to have gone to meet the approaching strikers. There was hot fighting at close range for a few minutes and then the guards re- treated toward the camp, purs Aing strikers at their heels. The strikers reached the crest of the canyon di- f1x al Ina tla, Co. the mine buildings. Mine company re- ports declared that in this rush dyna- mite was exploded by the attacking party.
 Reinforce Guard
 party of militiamen, hastily sent from Ludlow in steel cars, reinforced the guards and after heavy fighting the strikers were driven back.
 Shortly afterward a party of strikers appeared in the Aguilar district, sepa- rated from the Hastings -Delagua can yon by a high range of hills. The as- sailants of Delagua in the meantime had vanished in the direction of Aguilar. The attacks on the Aguilar
 Trinidad was a scene of tense ex- citement tonight The saloone had been closed by order of the city coun- ell, but throngs of men still congre- gated on the streets. Labor headuuar- ters were jammed with strikers, mostly aliens, and the crowd overflowed to the sidewalks
 Many women and children from the Ludlow tent colony were in Trinidad cared for by union sympathizers Throughout the day steady streams of strikers passed in and out of tho morgue where lay the bodies of sev- sral victims of the Ludlow battle. Shortly before o'clock tonight crowd of men, armed with rifles left the United Mine Workers headquarters and went to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe sta lion, with the alleged avowed intention of shooting a small party of militiamen who had just marched past the union head | quarters on their way to take train for Denver. The men reached the station a few min ntes before the train started, and lined up near the track, ready to shoot. For ] some reason. however. they left without the soldiers. At union headquarters no explanation | was given of the miscarriage of the al- eged plan to shoot the militiamen. John | R. Lawson, executive member of the United Mine Workers of America, when asked point blank if u,sion officers had l, ordered the men to disperse. refused to , lnswer
 "If I should say that had power to | stop the men doing anything like that 1 people would think I also had power to | start something of the same kind.' he ex- l ,lained.