Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-03

money to complete his college course.
He was unarmed at the time of the
attack. He was the first man shot
and all together three bullets went
through his body.
Two bullets went through Bryan
and two through Whitten. Adams
was shot in the shoulder with soft
nosed bullet which tore large wound
as it went out and he bled to death.
The murderers apparently con-
vinced all were dead. the firing sud-
denly ceased. Gambling staggered
to Adams, tore his shirt off and bound
up his wound. From where he was,
and from what he saw, he knew that
there was no aid that he could render
either Harry Bryan, Whitten or Lou
Terry. Then he started to a near
by farm house. telephoned to the Oak
dale mine what had happened. No
one at the mine dared go to their re-
lief, and no relief whatever came
until about six o'clock, Major G. G..
Townsend of the National Guards,
Captain Swope, the coroner. sheriff
and deputies finally came from Wal
senburg.
The coroner found Lou Terry dead
at the wheel, Harry Bryan dead at
practically the position he first took,
with the end of his gun shot off. He
had been killed by an explosive bull
let which had struck him in the
shoulder. Exploding, the splinters OF
lead had spread through his lungs
and body, the central steels ball had
gone straight on its course through
his heart Adams was in pool OF
blood about two feet square. He was
put on special train at La Veta and
rushed to Pueblo, and died from loss
of blood upon arriving at the hospital.
While on the trip to the hospital
Adams told Major Lester, his at
tendant, that they had never thought
of trouble after leaving town, and
were singing when they arrived at
the hill top. On that ride, with death
lust a few hours ahead of them, he
told the whole story to Major Lester,
told how. when the bullets ratned,
they could see no head or form OF
person against whom they might re,
turn fire. Told how hopeless and
helpless they were, and he told how
soon after he had taken his position
there on the ground he heard sob at
the point where Harry Bryan lay.
The Murder Was Advertised
As Real Pleasant Diversion
On the day before, in the town o;
Walsenburg, parties were told to go
to La Veta If they wanted to see
some killing, and some went In auto
mobiles. In their confession later to
the military commission, the mur-
derers showed no remorse. but in
stead told of it as though 1t was OF
little consequence. From their hearts
and from their view point, perhaps II
was, but from the view point of al
aged mother and father then and now
living in Colorado Springs, who Knew
that their boy, Lou Terry, was work
ing to earn money to complete MS
course in Colorado College, and from
the view point Of the wife and TWO
children of Adams, and relatives o1
whitten, and from the view point OF
Captain Bryan, the father OF Harry
Bryan, the boy who had spent three
years at Simpson College, was %
years OF age and splendid young
fellow, this shooting from the tiles,
these few moments of Indifferent
pleasure, this spectacle surveyed by
the curious with field glasses and
opera glasses from the houss tops,
water tanks, telephone poles. and
reservoirs, had another meaning.
No troops had been sent into La
Veta up to that time, although the
Oakdale company had repeatedly re-
quested them. After the shooting,
however, a detachment of the Ma
tional Guard was sent there and ar
rested six strikers who were lodged
in the Walsenburg jail on charge OF
murder, and since that time three
others have been arrested ana
charged with murder.
Some time between the attack OF
September goth and the killing on
November 7th, night attack was
made upon the Oakdale camp at
which time the assailants exploded
dynamite and attempted also to flre
the d. & r. G. trestle just below the
camp. When the mine employees
and guards went down to put out this
fire they were fired upon from the
hillsides and about two hundred shots
were exchanged.
Ever since the strike, except during
the time of the military occupancy.
and later the occupancy by federal
troops, the union has maintained a
picket around the railroad station at
la Veta and upon the public streets
and on several occasions they have
set aside the town government and
run things to suit themselves. They
have taken men off of the Rio Grande
trains at that point and have as
saulted numerous men who were at
tempting to get to Oakview for the
purpose of working at the Oakdale
coal mine. A majority of the town
trustees at La Neta are socialists and
the man who was town marshal most
of the time was a brother OF the
president of the local lodge of strik-
ing miners.