The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-23
Men and Women Reported
Entombed by Action of
the Striking Miners
MORE FATALITIES IN
YESTERDAYS FIGHTING
Strikers Gain Recruits and Are Said
to Have Larger Force Than the
Colorado Militiamen = Intense Ex-
element in Trinidad.

citement in Trinidad.
TRINIDAD. Colo, April 23.-Six
mine employees dead and two missing;
three men. two women and a baby re-
ported to be entombed in q burning
mine; several mining camps destroyed
and others riddled with bullets, less
than 200 militiamen and company
guards confronting an army of strik-
ing coal miners estimated by strike
leaders at Trinidad, Colo, yesterday at
more than 400-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 day 5
fighting, as near as could be stimated,
was as follows:
William WaddelI, superintendent of
the Empire mine of the Southwestern
fuel company; John Church, engineer
of the Empire mine; unidentified miner
killed at Empire; David Donovan, car
penter at the Delagua mine of the Vic
tor-Ameriean fuel company; Fred
Dougherty, guard at Delagua, found
dead in the hills late yesterday; Carl
Johnson employed at Delagua. Felix
Gonzales and Joe Chavese, guards at /
Delagua, still were missing and were
supposed to be dead somewhere in the 7
hills above Hastings canyon.
A persistent but unconfirmed report
had in that J. W. Siple, manager Of
the Empire and Southwestern mines OF
the Southwestern fuel company, with |
two women, a baby and two men, had
been sealed in the Empire mine, which. /
then had been set on fire by strikers. |
Strike leaders last night asserted that
one of their lighting men had been
killed during the day : battle and that
only two had been reported wounded.
Daybreak Fighting at Delagua.
According to the reports received
by the military authorities, the fighting
at Aguilar which followed that at Del
aqua, was participated in by the same
body of strikers. The firing ut Della
qua began soon after daybreak, with
clash between - guards and a large
| body of miners. This fight occurred
in the hills 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 n few minutes. and
| then the guards retreated toward the
/ camp. the pursuing strikers ut their
! heels. The strikers reached the crest
| Of the canyon directly above the camp,
| then rushed for the mine building.
/ Mine company reports declared that
| in this rush dynamite 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. Soon
afterward a party of strikers appeared
in the Aguilar district separated from
the Hastings -Delagua canyon by high
range of hills. The assailants of
i Delagua in the meantime had vanished
in the direction of Aguilar. The at
tacks on the Aguilar mines followed.
Trinidad was a scene of tense eX-
citement last night The saloons had
been closed by order of the city coun-
ell, but throngs of men still congre-
E gated on the streets. Labor headpuar
tiers were damned with strikers, mostly
aliens, and crowds overlooked to the
; sidewalks. Many women and children
from the Ludlow tent colony were il
Trinidad cared for by union sympa
l thizers. Throughout the day steady
} streams of strikers passed in and out
. of the morgue where lay the bodie,
S of several victims Of the Ludlow bat
5 tie.
s 1t is hoped by some of his friends
p that Superintendent Waddell may b.
, alive inside the mine. Last night
: crowd of men, armed with rifles, lef
the united mine workers headqua
tiers and went to the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe station, with the alleoe
avowed intention of shooting a small
Il party Of militiamen who had jus
: marched past the union headquarter
on their way to take a train for Den
yer.
The men reached the station a fey
minutes before the train started, an
lined up near the track, ready to shoe
r For some reason, however. they lef
n without molesting the soldiers 500
= afterward a violent thunderstorm, wit
. hail and wind and torrents Of raj
cleared the streets, and residents q
= Trinidad breathed easier than the
had for q hours.
1r Strikers Army Growing Stronger.
od John r. Lawson declared that til
il union officials had urged the unto
al miners in the Colorado Springs di
II trict, who quit work yesterday an
IT, announced that they were going t
the strike zone to help fight the mil
tlamen, to return to work. He a
serted, however, that the ranks of ii
union IS army in the hills were COZ
stanfly growing stronger.
Delagua is located in the bottom
a deep canyon. The village surround
r, the mine office and company stor
which are located few hundred fe'
On down the canyon from the double ii
= pie which connects the two mines, OF
II piercing each side of the canyo
ii When the firing began at daylight Il
II Is company guards stationed at Il
II mine took to the hills, where a shal
skirmish occurred, in which the guar
II were reported to have been killed.
III Seyan bodies of those killed in Fl