Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-30
CONC|L|ATORS AT
CAPITOL DISCUSS
STRIKE WAR END
Federal Cavalry Stands Ready
to QueII Colorado Mine
Outbreaks.
WAR DEPARTMENT POSTS
"FRoM FRONT" BULLETINS
5ss
Troops Chartered in Strike
Zone Ordered TO Shoot to
Preserve Peace.

WASHINGTON, April 3O.-Appalled
by a report he. received today from
the scene, that from nine. to twenty
persons were slain Wednesday In the
fighting in the Goa lregions of Colo
RADIO, William B. Wilson, secretary of
labor, has asked the two concillators
he has appointed to hurry here today
20 confer with him with view of
expediting a proposed truce.
The conciliators, Hywel Davies,
y president of the Coal Operators AS
sseidtion of Kentucky, and William
r. Firley, of Alabama. an organizer
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, are now on their way here, ana
are expect i this afternoon. Mr.. VIII
son said he hopes these conciliators
! will find a common ground on which
NO effect a settlement. 1t will be de-
cided in a conference today whether
they will .-st go to New York TO
plead with John D. Rockefeller, jr.,
the central figure among the mine
owners, or go directly to the scene
of trouble.
Mr. " ilson Is keeping in touch with
the situation. He expects verified
list OF the dead in yesterdays light
ing. In the message he received to-
day it was stated nine lives were
this number might be increased to
evenly. At many places where fight
ing occurred strikers were seen to
fall while bullets We're being eX-
changed Whether these men were
wounded u killed could not be ascer-
tanned. The strikers IN most instance
sdragged them away.
The war department now issues Of
fetal ne VS. bulletin. of the fighting
Il aio ciffailnr fhnQp
Il makes public concerning opera
tions in Mexico Ind along the border.
With the ordering of Federal troops
into the State the army chiefs re-
garde il as field OF active military
operations. Bulletins from the front,
posted at the war Office last night,
attracted far more interest than the
marking time news from Mexico
The first bulletin told of the fight
at mon City, witb the killing of
three strikers and eight mine guards.
1t had been hoped that the mere
ordering Of Fedora troops into the
Ininiag regions would have a qutet-
ing effect, and there was regret last
night when news arrived in the de-
. .uartmeIit that az "a eEslas sxfefaD
Z Mao ~ rtmpald Al ever,
The cryairX tTpQps arr Yed ut their
esssened stations Sasttae tssf might
and will be in the. field today. Presi-
dent Wilson'S, proclamation notifies
ali Iawbreakers to 6isperse on OF be-
fore April 80, and this Is the last day
OF grace bSfore the regulars start
cleaning up the region, Regardless Of
corporations, n AniofIs, strikers or
strike breakers.
Strong pressure is being brought
to bear by President Wilson to effect
peaceful settlement before more lives
are sacrificed
DENVER, Colo April S0.-Colo-
radios seyeh months Industrial con-
fiict yesterday claimed a toll of at
least nine human lives. This was
the berified record last night, divided
as follows: ~-..-....=,..#-.#.
At Forbes seven mine guards and
one STRIKER dead with TO other
strikers believed to have been killed.
At Walsenburg, one officer of the
militia hospital corps killed, one Of
fieer and two enlisted men wounded.
One dead and three wounded is the
known casualty list in six hour
battle at Walsenburg in which less
than 100 militiamen attempted to dis
lodge an estimated force of 400
strikers entrenched in the hills 5.dja-
cent to the town. Firing stopped
'ate in the day when the troops were
withdrawn on orders, local officials
state received by Colonel Verdeck-
burg, from Denver. The dead: Major
p. P. Lester member hospital corps,
Walsenburg. The wounded: Lieu
tenant Scott, shot in head; Private
Glen Miller, shot in face; Private G.
l.. Wilmot, shot in leg.