The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-07-09

H0 was un4rmeQ AT inc IiIue Ol tuc
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 N large wound
as Il 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 OF 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 near
by farm house, telephoned to the Oak
dale mine what had happened. No
one at the mine dared go tC their re-
lief. and no relief whatever came
until about six o'clock, Major G. q.
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 "
practically the position he first took,
with the end OF his gun shot on. lie
had been killed by an explosive bull
let WHICH ndA h1h hAAA ~
shoulder. Exploding. the splinters OF
Head had spread through his lungs
and body. the central steel ball had
gone straight on its course through
his heart Adams was in pool OF
blood about two feet square He was
put on a special train at La Neta ana
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
tendart. that they had never thought
of trouble after leaving town, anu
were singing when they arrived az
the hill top. On that ride. with deatn
lust a few hours ahead OF them, nc
told the whole story to Major Lester
told how, when the bullets rained,
they could see no head or form OF a
person against whom they might re
turn fire. Told how hopeless anu
helpless they we're, and he told now
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
A. Real Pleasant Diversion
On the day before. in the town Of
Walsenburg, parties were told TO 10
To La veta II they wanted to see
soma killing, and some went In auto
mobiles. In their confession later TO
the military commission, the muir
derers showed no remorse. but In.
stead told of II as though It was oil
little consequence. From their hearts
and from their view point. perhaps u
was, but from the view point OF Al
aged mother and father then and now
living In Colorado Springs who knew
that their hoy, 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 OF
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 zs
years OF age and q splendid young
fellow, this shooting from the tiles.
these few moments OF Indifferent
Measure. this spectacle surveyed by
the curious with field glasses and
opera glasses from the house tops,
water tanks. telephone poles. and
reservoirs, had another meaning.
No troops had been sent into Ia
veta up to that time. although the
OakdaIe 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 oil
murder, and since that time three
others have been arrested and
charged with murder.
Some time between the attack oil
September 29th and the killing on
November 7th, a night attack was
made upon the Oakdale camp az
which time the assailants exploded
dynamite and attempted also TO nre
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 1ederai
troops. the union has maintained
picket around the railroad station al
Ia veta and upon the public streets
and on several occasions they nave
set aside the town government ano
run things to suit themselves. They
have taken men of Of the Rio Grandt
trains at that point and have as
saulted numerous men who were at
sempting to get to Oalview for tbs
purpose of working at the Oakdai'
coal mine. A majority OF the towr
trustees at La Veta are socialists ant
the man who was town marshal mos
Of the time was brother OF th'
president of the local lodge OF strik
ing miners.