Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-23
Strikers Resort
 to Dynamite
200 MILITIA MEN CONFRONTED
 BY 400 STRIKERS AT LUDLOW
FIGHT AT CLOSE RANGE
Several Mining Camps RiddIed With BuIIets-six Mine Employee Dead
 and Three Missing. Yesterdays Toll

Trinidad, Col, April zz-H. B. King of the Empire mine, tonight telephoned
 that the attacking party was throwing
 dynamite into the slope of the mine, where between twenty and thirty men,
 women and children are said te have taken refuge.
 Six mine employees dead and two missing; three men. two women and a baby reported to be entOmbed in a
 burning mine; several mining camps
 destroyed and others riddled with bull
 letsi less than two hundred militia
 men and company guards confronting an army of striking coal miners esti- mated by strike leaders at more than
 four hunrded-this was the situation when the sun set on the third red day in the southern Colorado labor war. The list of dead on the side of the
 coal operators as the result of the days fighting, as near as could be es- timated, was az follows: William Waddell superintendent of the Empire mine of the Southwestern Fuel company.
 | John Church. engineer of the En- pire mine.
 Unidentified miner. killed at Elm pire.
 David Donovan, carpenter st the Delagua mine of the Victor American Fuel company.
 found dead in the hills late today.
 Carl Johnson, employed at Delagua.
 Felix Gonzales and Joe Chavez, guards at Delagua, still were missing and were supposed to be dead some- where in the hills above Hastings can- yon.
 A persistent but unconfirmed report had it that J. W. Siple, manager of the Empire and Southwestern mines of the Southwestern Fuel company.
 had been sealed in the Empire mine, which then had been set on fire by strikers.
 Strike leaders tonight asserted that one of their fighting men had been killed during the days battle and that only. two had been reported. wounded According to the reports received by the military authorities, the fighting at Aguflar, which followed that at Della qua, was participated in by the same body of strikers.
 Guardsmen Retreated. The firing at Delagua began soon after daybreak, with a clash between fifteen guards and a large body of miners This fight occurred in the hills a mile or more from the camp where the guards are declared to have gone to meet the approaching strikers. There was hot fighting at close range for few minutes and then the guards retreated toward the camp. the pursu- ing strikers at their heels. The strik- CTS reached the crest of the canyon directly above the camp, then rushed for the mine building. Mine company reports declared that in this rush dy- namite was exploded by the attacking party.
 A party of militiamen, hastily sent
 from Ludlow in steel cars, reinforced the guards, and after heavy fighting
 the strikers were driven back. Shortly afterward a party of strik- CTS appeared in the Aguilar district, separated from the Hastings Delagua
 canyon by a high range of hills. The assailants of Delagua in the meantime had vanished In the direction of Agui- lar. The attacks on the Aguilar mines followed.
 Trinidad was a scene of tense ex- citement tonight. The saloons had been closed by order of the city coun- cil, but throngs of men still congre- gated on the streets. Labor headQuar- | ters were jammed with strikers, mostly aliens, and the crowd overfower to the sidewalks.
 Many women and children from the Ludlow tent colony were in Trinidad 1 cared for by union Sympathizers Throughout the day steady streams of strikers passed Tn and out of the | morgue, where lay the bodies of sev- l eral victims of the Ludlow battle.