The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-13
AWFUL STORY OE
 COLORADO SIEGE
Is ReIatsd by Woman Witness
 From Mining Camp.
DUG CAVES TO ESCAPE DEATH

Frantic MoEFasrn Scocped Out HoIes In the Earth In Which to Conceal Them seI~es and Their children-ta a~oc Wrought by Machine Guns of the Militia Graphically Described.
 Mrs. Pearl Jolly of the Wonaen's Trades Union league. testifying before the United States industrial couannis- sion, gave graphic picture of the hor- TOTS of Ludlow camp colony in Colo rado on, April 20, when men, women and children were besieged by the state militia and it became necessary to dig caves beneath the camp to es- cape the ire of the we'll trained ma chine guns She testified in New York Mrs. Jolly told of the siege of the camp She said the trouble opened with the firing of two bombs into the heart Of the camp and the ignoring of white flag carried by the leader of the stxf1ring miners
 "Then the bullets from the machine guns began to find their way every where said Mrs. Jolly. ssThe women set to work digging holes in the ground in which to hide their children There were 300 of the women, many of them about to become mothers; others with nursing babies and still others old and inflrm- There were also the 800 men.
 CravvIed Away on Their StomacEss
 @To distract the fire from the camp, which 1t was presumed was aimed at the men, the miners departed for the hills. They crawled away on their stomachs, while the women were using crude implements to dig into the ground Four men remained to look after the women and children.
 There were only forty rifles in all of Ludlow camp. This shows that it was not an armed body. as has been reported.
 t'It was becoming so desperate that I decided to pin red cross on a white dress and go forth into the open so that the men with the machine guns could see me was in the camp in the capacity of nurse in the event my services were needed
 As soon as I showed myself the ni- ntiamen began to pepper at me One of the bullets struck the heel of one of my shoes, and others struck all about me. I thought 1t was about time that got under cover.
 
 three men lying alongside of it. They had dragged the telephone through a slit and were franticaIly calling help from Trinidad
 Opposite the entrance to the tent was mirror. My reflection after had entered Was in the mirror You can get a good idea of what fine shots those men with the rifles and the ma- chine guns were when they shattered the mirror to smithereens in less than five minutes. They thought they were actually shooting at me
 sI thought my end had come. Going to the door, dropped to the floor and lay stdlL. Apparently the men with the machine guns thought I was dead
 Later I managed to work my way around to the men who were lying against the side of the tent te1ephon. ing. For Gods sake, go away. wo- manr they whispered. You're a hoo doop
 'sI think after that the militiamen must have relocated us, for the fire became dangerous again.
 Only the Caves Saved Women.
 gro stay where we were meant death. All the pits were filled witl l the weeping women and the crying  | there. I saw three men who had beer 1 hiding near me run for coal pile ana I followed. A rain of shots followed. tFor an hour, with no letup, machine I guns sputtered steel jacketed bullet: 1 about the coal. Enough shots were turned in our direction to carry off : regiment.
 1 'sWe saw an innocent, blue eyed [ twelve-year-old boy throw up hi: hands with a bullet in his heart. Hi 1 father, his eyes wild with grief, crawl ed to our side He wanted to go ou into the open and get to the men witl the murder machines, but we held hin back.
 HAt o'clock that day the machine guns got even a better range Ever1 sign of life was annihilated. Dogs chickens, cats and other domestic ami mals were picked off with ease, so ex pert were these marksmen. If tn caves had not been dug every one O the 500 women and children woul have been shot.
 stOne little Italian woman, who's three children had been murdered b. the machine guns. became insane