Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-23
REPORT THIRTY
ENTOMDEC IN
MINE ARE DEAD
Air Cut OFF Since Yesterday on
Group in Colorado Strike
District.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
AMONG THE lLL-FATED
Fire Ravages camps-Strikers
Drive Back Militia, Desper-
ate for Reinforcements.

other large body Of armed men is still
besieging the wrecked mining camp
of the Southwestern Fuel Company
at Empire, according to a telephone
report from ri. ID. King early today,
just before the wires went down. The
King family have been prisoners in
their homes since yesterday noon.
The fate of j. w. Siple, president of
the company who with twenty to
thirty others, including several women
and children, were reported entombed
In the mine slope was unknown A
report from Aquilar to Major p. j.
Hammock stated that the entombed
were dead as the air had been cut
off since yesterday.
There was desultory firing this
forenoon at Ludlow. The main body
of armed strikers was believed to be
in the vicinity of Rugby and Prim-
rose. A small number of guards was
prepared to resist any attack at
Rouse, A large body of armed men
was reported marching from Trinidad
against the militia at Ludlow.
"If you have any help you can send
rush il to Rouse Immediately. Strikers
have big bunch and are coming this
way"
This message was received at the
Trinidad offices of the Colorado Fuel
Superintendent w. G, Deck.
Damage Wrecked Yesterday.
Three mine guards are known TO be
dead, while hundreds of thousands of
dollars in property damage is known
10 have been done as a result of con-
tinuous fighting which has ragged
through the Ludlow strike district
yesterday.
Two mine shafts--those of the
Broadhead and Royal companies,
both independent--are in ashes.
Around the storm centres Of the
fight--Delagua the Black Hills and
the canyons near Aguilar--strikers'
lines, constantly reinforced, are
steadily drawn tighter as the strikers
pursue their program of vengeance.
The strikers declare the bodies of
their dead have been destroyed by
dynamite and otherwise cremated
and disposed of by the militia, Tol
support tllis they point out that rapid
fire gunssiti the hands of the soldiers
have prevented the entrance of any
ono to the former site of the ruined
tent colony until late today,
John Il. Lawson declared tonight
that he and the others heard dyna-
mite explosions all this forenoon.
The charred debris which covers
urdisturhed since the fire of Monday |
night. Fifteen bodies, thirteen those |
of women and children. are known |
to have been in one spot.
Trinidad OHiciaIs Make Plea.
Mayor Dunlevy. Of Trinidad. mem !
bers of the council. and the chamber |
OF commerce, by kilograms to Denver |
and Washington tonight, asked Gov
ernor Ammons and President Will |
son for Federal troops
In its position along the railroad |
tracks at Ludlow the militia at late |
hour had been completely cut Off
from the remainder of the strike dis
trict by the armed band of strikers, |
whose ranks. swelled constantly by
iren who swarm the hills from all |
directions, now number seven hun
dred.
No effort was accordingly maze by |
Major Hamrock tonight to sendi aid |
10 the men ,mprisoi ed at Agular.
In Trinidad ronight suppressed ex-
citement of the most intense charac- !
ter prevails. All saloons were ordered |
closed by the Mayor and chief OF
police at / o'clock But men congre- |
cate on the streets and no effort to
disperse them is made. A committee
from strike headquarters this evening |
invaded the Columbia Hotel, where
Captain Randolph and twenty militia
men of Denver are quartered, ana
searched 1t for machine guns. NO re-
sistance was offered
DENVER. Colo, April 23-Con-
tinued bloodshed and rioting in the
Southern Colorado strike zone caused
Lieutenant Governor stephen r. F1sz-
gerald last night to order Adiutant-
ra1 fz Ava fF~ni
for the strike zone with as many
members of the State militia as hel
considered necessary to restore order
in that section of the State and to-
arr ange for the issuance of proc |
lamation calling a special session of
the State Legislature to finance the
maintenance of the militia in the
strike zone djutant-General Chase
Immediately issued a call for all
branches of services In the Colorado
National Guard TO moholiZe and en-
train for Trinidad Two troops of
cavalry left Denver in a special train
at midnight.
Acting Governor Hits Strikers.
The Lieutenant Governors action
came after conference with lead |
ing business men of the city and
State, who guaranteed payment on
warrants issued TO the privates of
the militia and following reports
from fresh atrocities in the strike
zone. Concerning the events of the
last three days in the Trinidad dis
triet, Lieutenant-G Governor Fitzgerald !
said:
''My investigation of the riots near
Trinidad have disclosed the most |
terrible conditions, conditions which |
have never been equalled to this or
any other State. not even West Vir-
ginia. Even granting all of the
strikers claims concerning the ac-
tions of the militia. it is not 1usti- |
fable that the strikers themselves |
should murder women and children /
as they have done today and are do |
ing, nor for them to burn and des- |
troy hundreds of thousands of dol !
lars worth of property.
No Justification for Murders.
They have no justification for mur-
dering men whose only offense is
that they are seeking to earn liv-
ing without permit from the United |
Mine Workers of America.
"The trouble was started by the
whose only offense was in walking
They waylaid him and shot him |
down. riddllng his body with bullets |
There was no excuse. no reason, no
justification for the precipitation of
q civil war. .-4-- .------