The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-07
ASK MORE TROOPS
GARRISON SENDS 600 REGULARS
TO ASSIST IN RESTORING Or
DER AT COLORADO MINES.
SAY MILITIA FIRED TENTS
Witnesses at Trinidad Inquest De-
clare State Troopers Had Planned
to Destroy Ludlow; stenographer
Overheard IT.

Washington, May 2-The Eleventh
cavalry and two troops Of the Twelfth
cavalry, about nine hundred men,
were ordered by Secretary Of War
Garrison TO the Colorado strike dis.
trict to assist in restoring order.
Denver. Colo, May 4.--Interest in
Colorados coal strike tragedies on
Friday was divided between two dra'
matte centers-the inquest at Trini'
dad over the bodies of the women and
children burned to cath In the Ludlow
tent colony, and the headquarters OF
the United States troops in charge OF
the coal fields.
Nine witnesses, including r. J. Nc
Donald. former stenographer for the
Colorado military commission, testi'
fed before the coroner's jury which is
recording the history of the Ludlow
disaster.
Mcdonald said he stood within a
few feet OF Hammock and Carson, who
were inspecting the colony from the
top Of a hill. 1t was we'll toward
night.
We've got just 40 minutes to take
and burn that colony" he testified one
OF the two remarked, before it gets
dark"
A few moments later the troops
and mine guards, he said, swept down
the tracks in the charge that meant
the colony's ultimate destruction, and
the death of women and II children,
who sought refuge in safety" pit.
Have your big Sunday today, old
GIRL Mrs. Pearl Jolly, leader Of the
women, at Ludlow, testified militia
man told a strikers wife on the day
before the tragedy. Tomorrow We'll
have the roast"
McDonald's testimony also threw
further light on the manner In which
Louis Tikas, leader of the Ludlow
Greeks, came to his death.
They've got Tikas and they want
to hang him." Mcdonald said troop
er told him, coming down the track
from where Tikas was held by group
and moving excitedly about.
Lieut. E. X. Linderfelt passed, Nc
Donald said, carrying his rife by the
barrel.
II told them not to hang him." Nc
Donald swore Lindefelt remarked,
but I've spoiled - good rife"
The autopsy showed that Tikas,
nominally the militia's prisoner during
the last stage Of the fight. died with
three bullets In his back, and his head
was marked by blow which had laid
open the scalp to the bone.
or the eighteen or twenty men who
went out from Trinidad later on the
afternoon Of April 20 to reinforce
Major Hamrock's original force at
Ludlow, Mcdonald said he was able
to identify only three or four as hav.
ing had previous military service. The
remainder, he declared, in large part.
were company guards though all were
gathered at the state armory before
the departure of the expedition, and
equipped with military uniforms and
guns.
Mrs. jolly testified that when the
troops opened fire on the colony many
of the women and children were only
half dressed. The children, she de-
clared, almost all were without shoes
and few had more than thin attire.
There was not ime for them to dress,
and the firing commenced a moment
later"
Washington. May 2.-W. b. VIII
son, secretary of labor. announced
the appointment OF William r. Fair
ley Of Alabama, an official of the
Mine Workers, and Rywel Davies.
president Of the Mine Operators of
Kentucky, as his official representa-
tives in an attempt to bring about an
adjustment Of the mining troubles in
Colorado.
Farley and Davies are now on their
way to Washington, and will leave for
Colorado after they have received
their instructions here.
That Italy may ask the United
States for indemnity should 1t be found
that Italian life and property had been
illegally taken or destroyed in Colo
RADIO, because of the mine strike there,
was indicated when Marquis Cuaini
Confalonieri the Italian ambassador,
called at the state department.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, COM
menting upon the appointment of Fair
ley and Davies as arbitrators, said that
the indignation of the Colorado miners
is such that they are threatening a
countrywide strike and that this
is being avoided only by the greatest
effort of the miners executive officers.
Denver, Colo, May 2.--Goyernor
Ammons on Thursday reported the
Convicted Coal Miners Jailed.
Wellsburg, w. Va, May 2.-Four