The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-04-30
MINE GUARDS AND STRIKERS
OPEN BATTLE AGAIN TODAY.
CAMP BUILDINGS SET on FIRE
Women and Children Have Been Hid
den in the CeIlars-Mine Guards
Turn Machine Gun Down the
Street at Louisville.

Louisville opened a battle today &C
cording to reports from Boulder.
There are 200 strikers there and the
guards are said to have turned mach
inc gun fire into the streets. There
was also firing at dawn at Vulcan and
Lafayette.
Sheriff Dufter in charge of the mine
guards at Hecla telephoned that the
women and children in the stockade
have been hidden in the cellars OF the
houses The guards used a search
lighr in firing before dawn.
al Forbes, near Trinidad at $50
lthis mnlnipg volIey was fired into
tho mine hOCses where % women and
children have been sheltered, guard
ed by Is guards.
Battle at Walsenburs.
Walsenburg, April 2S.-The sheriff
announced today that seven mine
81 ards are dead, one woman wound
cd ard one man injured the result
! or battle about the McNally mine
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. which
200 strikers captured late yesterday
and then destroyed the buildings of
the mine.
Within ten minutes after the first
shots were fired every place in the
: city from which the battle could be
seen was crowded with persons with
field glasses, and the marching and
countermarching of the strikers and
guards looked like moving pictures.
I Within few minutes after the
opening of the shooting, men could be
seen coming down the hOgbacks back
of the Mentally mine and entering the
camp house. The men had hardly
reached the main part OF the camp
when two automobiles bearing the SUI
perintendent and his family dashed
from the mine grounds, with bullets
kicking dust around the wheels. The
automobile pulled up at a doctors
Office and Miss Margaret Gregory was
taken in. She was the first TO be
wounded
| A striker had shot through the door
of the superintendent house just as
they were ready to leave. A watch
pinned to Miss GregOry'S dress de-
tlected the bullet and it tore through
! her arm. Hardly had the dust from
the automobile settled when tho
watchers could see a number Of men
break from behind boarding house
and run to ditch which runs be,
tween WalsenbuTg and the mine. The
men had almost reached the ditch
when one of them fell. Ten minutes
! after the shooting of the man at the
ditch, six strikers broke from the
mine in the direction Of the hOgbacks.
! A few seconds later smoke began issu-
| ing from the larger buildings of the
camp. The boarding house was the
| q f1.ny INN fnN LAT IA
bunk house was on fire and by dark
! the whole camp sEemed to be in
| flames.
Just after the fire started in the
camp houses man on horseback
male his way carefully through the
! south edge OF town and when clear
of the buildings made a break for
position midway between the Welsen
and McNally mines. He had almost
reached the pinon trees at the foot of
the nil when he plunged from his
morse. Tie attention of the watchers
was drawn from the horse and rider
| by a tcr .iic explosion. They turned
to see debris Of all kinds flying around
the tipple at the McNally mine.
HecIa Mine Attacked.
Louisville, Colo, April 28.-The
Hecla mine. d Rocky Mountain Fuel
company property in this city, TWEEN
ty- two miles north of Denver, last
night was attacked by an unknown
number of strikers The firing began
at 10 o'clock and continued unabat-
I'd until after midnight None of the
mine guards have been wounded and
it Is not known what the results of
the defenders fire from rifles and ma
chine guns has been. So thick were
the bullets from the battle in the
darkness that all telephone and tele-
graph communication was destroyed
for more than an hour giving rise 10
the report that the town had been
fired.
Just before the wires went down.
the attacked miners and guards sent
a call for help TO the Sheriff's office
in Boulder. Later it was learned that
Assistant District Attorney Harold
Martin, who lives near Lafayette, had
oTgaL.Had )OSse OF 100 mH, an'
town In automobiles.
Goes to Fathers Aid.
Boulder, Colo, April 2S. - Eston
Buster. son of Sheriff Buster, left his
room in the college dormitory last
nlSnt ana nedueU posse OF forty men
in an effort to reach his father, who
is among those in the Hecla mine at
Louisville, which at 10 o'clock last
night was attacked by strikers. Young
Buster heard, before leaving, that the
fight was exceedingly vigorous and
that the, defenders of the Hecla were
running short of "a ammunition, He
and his posse were bending, every ef.
fort to reach the mine by Automobile
before the attackers could succeed in
driving out the mine guards.
Martial Law Declared.
Denver, April 2S.-- Governor Am.
mons today declared martial law
in Boulder county and called for vol
unteers to join the national guard
and go to Hecla where the strikers
have threatened to exterminate all
the mine guards. Over one hundred
soldiers are on their way from Can
on City and 1t is reported that 200
militiamen have taken a strong pc.
sition overlooking Walsenburg.