The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-30
state Troops Said to Have
Poured Shot Into Ranch
House Where Refugees
Had Sought Shelter.

a; about 1890 o'ciocl, that night, accord.
Ing to the physician. after he mad re.
turned 20 the Bayes ranch house.
AT broke OUT first AT tine southwest
corner ne declared "nevt to the rail-
road tracks. a store tent burned and
the big tent which was used for amuse.
ment purposes followed Then tire FIRE
died out
1T was renewed an hour and haf
or two hours later by fire which seemed
To break out In MANY places al once.
The flames could not have leaped from
tent 20 tent In the creation OF this blaze.
the distances being too great. The flrs
ragged until the ma jor part of III. camp
became a marsh OF glowing embels. Tire
next morning. however. some Of The
tents were standing. Mr. Bayes and
myself were surveying the ruins and
We saw troops enter the colony with
OIL and after saturatinc the tents which
remained upright ignite them. They
soon Nero also reduced 10 embcrs
The firing IN the Bayes ranch con.
tinued until o'clock that afternoon IN
spite of the fact that women and chill
dren We're CHARTERED there
Ranchcr Baycs, when irterrogated nv
the jury al Ludlow. told substantially
the same story. The inquest viii be re.
sumed tomorrow.
The battle at Forh-..
L.t
= o'clocli this morning Forr hour,
later. with the big mine devastated
AZ Il tremendous property lose, The
strikers 80 in number, left the hills
TO the east west and south and
marched back to camp. reaching Trini.
dad about noon. The defenders num-
bered only 40.
The dead at Forbes arc:
:. \. Newlan. mine blacksmith
Jack Smith, miner.
I'd kcssler. miner.
Three unidentified strikers
Three unidentified Japanese and an
unidentified negro.
The sole defence OF the mine properly.
which extends for more than mile
along Forbes Canon. five miles from the
Nichols force OF guards and miners.
fighting from below and greatly ont.
numbered
When tho strikers swarnIod over tAr
hills above Forbes. their presence
threatening destruction Of the camp be-
low, the men at the mine sprang M
stantiy 10 tho defense The wcr, tN-
pecting the attack. Supt. Nicnoi ap-
peilcd for projection to the militia camp
At Ludlow, 20 Trinidad aud Denver.
The principal defense of the camp was
a machine gun, mounted on hin above
the superintendents office at the mine
proper. II was effective for about halt
an hour when 1t became chokcG SUIT.
Nichol ordered threc mon 10 take chars,
OF the handle and the rest OF the Kun
WAS sccrctcd after the eight. The mu.
with the handle werc among the mine
guards missing ~ noon.
Below the hin ON which the machln.
gun was mounted near the scarchient.
Supt, Nichol stood at the telephone from
! until 6;tj O'Clock aud tried to get h, lp.
AT SIS the wires Went down Then
NiChol with two men who stood ,,
him dashed up the hill TO cover.
Women aud Children srt..
The women and children at the min.
were safe from the bullets, Nichol hav-
ing ordered them into an abandoned
mine tunnel OF the hill below the ma
chine gun. A rock wall was hastily
constructed by the men when an at
tack On the mine by strikers was be-
icvcd imminent.
During the hsht the men who 10.
tended II" camp say. three strikers
were seen to fd,l and roll duHn lho hill.
The Wounded strikers were taken back
to Trinidad 10y their cnmrad,s.
SiA men from the mine were captured