The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-04-27
MOTHER TELLS AWFUL
STORY OF MASSACRE
"A Bullet Tore My
Little Boys II e adj
Away" She Says in
Description of Col
orado Slaughter.

orado Slaughter.
By Star Correspondent.
TRINIDAD, Col. April
27--In the ashes OF the
Ludlow tent colony of the
miners union, where SlS
human beings. lived hap
PLY. though hali-starvcd,
lie the charred and bullet
ridden bodies of more
than Is women and chill
drenl
They were massaered
! by gunner, wearing the
uniform OF the Colorado
state militia. but in the
employ of John ID. Rookie
feller's Colorado fuel and
iron company. and using
machine guns which were
brought TO Colorado by
the coal operators for just
that purpose.
Mrs. Mareelini pedrigon. a MEX.
icAN WOMAN. SAW Her TWO
BABIES SURROGATE In the ruins
Of her tent.homc. Mrs. Frank sny.
der mourns fer William. her eldest
ron. eleven. ~ho vcntured out cf
his fathers safety cellar" 10 get
drink for his furnishing brothers
and sisters. and FELL DEAD. A
CHILD HERO. WITH HIS HEAD
TORN AWAY ~ AN EXPLOSIVE
BulLETi
Mrs. Snyder told a vivid nsory Of
the day Of deadly terror and the
night Of horror that followed when
hundred women with twice az
many little children faced frat the
bullets OF the gunner and then the
fire the savage nurderers rercl
iessly started.
Strike Leader Protests
The shooting started, she SAYS.
when Louis Tikas. Greek leader AT
the tent colony. protested because
the uniformed gunner trained three
machine guns cn the tent colony.
Louis told them not 20 POINT
THEIR GUNS AT THE WOMEN
AND CHILDREN. she said.
Sunday they tri i'd TO break up
bali game our men we're playing
and some OF the men got mad aud
chased them away That IL why
they set mp the guns and i was then
that i.oufA objected
THEN THEY CURSED HIM
AND FIRED AT HIM. THEY MUST
HAVE FIRED so SHOTS AT HIM
AND HE FELL DOWN DEAD.
THAT WAS MONDAY.
"our men all went mad then and
got what guns they had and started
after the gunner. Our men we're
on one side OF the tents and the
gunner on the other.
Women 20 Cellars.
"Aii OF us women and children ran
down into the cellars which were
dug long time ago when the gun.
men first came down here and
threatened us with rifles and ma.
chine guns.
"Ail days long we lay down there
without anything TO eat or drink.
Il had six children. the Oldest
eleven. and they all cried.
AL THROUGH THE CAMP WE
COULD HEAR WOMEN SHREK.
ING AND CALLING TO GOD AND
THE VIRGIN TO COME AND
SAVE THEtR CHILDREN. AFTER
AWHILE ! HEARD A WOMAN
cuRsINc. LATER I HEARD SHE
HAD HER HAND SHOT OFF At
THE WRIST WHEN SIZE
REACHED UP FROM HER Get.
LAR AND TRIED TO GET & PAIL
OF WATER TO GIVE HER Chill
DREN A DRINK.
My children begged me for wat.
er. and finally little william--he
was my oldest boy--said he was
going to get them n drink So he
climbed up out OF the cellar and
he never came back.
Il should have gone for the water
myself. nut I had TO stay with the
babies.
Set Tents on Fire.
just when II was beginning 10
get dark the gunner dashed In
among the tents aud set fire 10 some
Of them. Our tent were all close
together and the fire spread fast
All the time they kept shooting
into the tents. although THEY
KNEW OUR MEN. WITH THEIR
GUNS. WERE ALL AWAY UP IN
THE HILLS.
u took my children and ran to a
deep arroyo tgullyl where there
we're about so other women and
babies.
Lots Of the others. though. were
afraid to come out OF their cellars
and they suffocsted under the burn
ing floors and side wallis which had
been built up Of boards"
The man who led the uniformed
gunner at the start OF the battle
was u. X. LcnderfeIt. "A lieutenant
in the Colorado National Guard.
A. G. Felts. head OF the Baldwin.
Felts detective agency. told the
congressional investigation commit.
tee that Lenderfelt operated ma.
chine gun for the coal mine owners
during the earlier part OF the strike.
Boosted He'd "6et" Tikas.
I.enderfelt according TO witnesses
before an investigating committee
sent to Southern Colorado. had
boastcd that he would get" Louis
Tikas, the Ludlow strikers leader.
and that he would wipe out the colo
ny there some day.
This committee twice asked Gov
ernor Ammons 10 remove Lender.
felt and Ammons twice disregard
ed the requests
UPON ELIAS AMMONS. GOV
{ ERNOR or COLORADO. RESTS
THE BLAME FOR THIS AWFUL
SLAUGHTER
Ammous has nov called on Presi.