The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-29
United States Soldiers Began
to March Into Strike
Zones This
Morning.
AN END TO CIVIL. WAR
Everybody Welcomes Y. s. Army and
the Crack OF the Rifle
Has Been Sill
eneed.
[By ]. F. Furay, United Press Staff
CORRESPONDENT

[By J. F. Furay, United Press Staff
Correspondent
DENVER. Colo, April 29.-The
federal invasion" of the coal strike
district Of Southern Colorado began
early today. Troops e and H Of the
Twelfth cavalry, commanded by Ma.
jor Mcclure. reached Denver from
Fort D. A. Russell at daylight and
continued on to Canon City where
they will make headquarters In the
pacification OF that section. They
constitute the advance guard Of regu-
lar soldiers. The Second squadron
of the Fifth cavalry left TT. Leaven-
worth, Kansas, early today with or
ders to rush to Trinidad. Major VIM.
A. Holbrook, commanding the detach-
ment, will be in entire command OF
the regulars with headquarters at
Ludlow, or Trinidad.
Meanwhile except at Walsenburg,
comparative quiet reigns. The news
that President Wilson had sent the
cavalry. was received with great joy
everywhere and even before the de-
tails of his order had come, mine
guards and armed strikers In both
the northern and southern coal fields
began to cease the firing which up to
that time had continued without
ceasing for hours.
Details OF the fighting in both fields
began to filter IN today. At Walsen-
burg. In the southern hsld, lighting
-ssAe .sfils III srrcyrass af IN early hour
today. Except for q lull Of two hours
late yesterday after news OF the send
ing of federal troops reached there.
the firing had continued for thirty
six hours. Last reports xave the
known dead at two and the known
wounded at half a dozen. 1t Is Inn
possible to get accurate details how
ever and 1t is feared the casualty list
may be increased. Militiamen at Wal
senburg deny they participated in the
early fighting yesterday, except In .
perfunctory way but last midnight
they went into action In force. Their
field pieces shelled the strikers posi-.
ton on ridge west OF the town, but
failed to rout the men, Freely ex'
posing themselves, the Greeks, Bull
garlans and other foreign miners
steadily replied to the soldiers and
refused to abandon their trenches.
Guards in the Robinson and Walsen-
burg mines are also participating ac-
lively. At Louisville and Lafayette
Col a ~
truce was established last night af-
ter six strikers had been seriously
wounded two probably fatally. Two
hours after the orders to United
States troops were issued, General j..
C. Chase, adjutant general Of the
Colorado militia. reached Louisville
with one hundred state soldiers. They
fired two volleys over the town and
took possession Of the Hecla mine
and nearby properties. The hills sur
rounding the place were also occupied
and preparations completed to put
down any further outbreaks. Strikers
saw the fighting for possession Of the
Hecla mine yesterday was most
fierce. 1t is estimated at least 10000
shots were fred and nearly every
house in Louisville was rfodled, or
bears marks of the encounter. Four
hundred armed strikers. occupying a
big irrigation ditch, poured bullets
for hours into the Hecfa mine where
one hundred guards and deputies
we're located. After noon the guards
turned water into the ditch in an ef-
fort to drive the strikers out. the
ruse failed, as the assailants held
their ground and stood In the water
to their arm pits and continued to
fire. It was because Of the exposure
in this ditch to the guards fire that
most Of the casualties occurrAd.
John McLennan and John Lawson,
strike leaders, reached Louisville late
in the afternoon and persuaded the
strikers to lay down their arms.
More Trouble Feared.
TRINIDAD, Colo, April 2s.-Re-
newal of fighting between armed
strikers and militia and mine guards
at Walsenburg was predicted here to-
day when $50 more militia went there
from Ludlow with instructions to join
troops already there and disar1n the
strikers.
IF such a move is attempted, a
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