The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-25
March Upon Strikers in the
Troubled Mine Districts
in Colorado
TOWN OF AGUILAR
is DEPOPULATED
Refugees Seeking Safety
Crowd Train-Water
Supply Cut Off

Trinidad, Colo, April 25.-State
troops, under the command of Adjutant
General Chaz, last night, advanced
toward Ludlow, after occupying Lynn
and Agllilar, without resistance by the
strikers.
At Aguilar the militiamen released
the company men who had been impris-
oned in the mines since Wednesday. All
are said to be alive and unframed.
The special train bearing state troops
into the strike zone yesterday morning
moved slowly southwark from Walsen-
burg in the direction of the hills near
Munson and Rugby, where an armed
force, estimated at one thousand, is be-
lieved to be assembled. Later it was
reported that the train had halted near
Munson and the militiamen were de-
training. The entire force will be kept
together for the present. General John
Chase said on leaving Walsenburg.
While the fighting was raging at the
mines about Aguilaar, during the last
five days no disturbance occurred in the
town. The strikers of the Aguilar dis
trict are believed to have moved north
in the direction of Rugby, where another
large body is stationed in the hills. A
series OF signal shots in the hills shortly
after four o'clock indicated that the
armed men have taken up position
over an area extending from Munson
south to Rugby station, a distance of
more than five miles.
Aguillar, normally thriving mining
and agricultural town OF 1000 popula-
ton, is almost depopulated. Terrorized
by the events of the last four days dur
ing which the strikers colony at Ludlow
was destroyed and the mining camps of
Empire, Southwestern, Bordhead and
Royal were wrecked or burned, the cit
izen have fled in all directions. A train
which reached Trinidad last night was
crowded with refugees from the center
OF the disturbed district. The towns
water supply is cut off by the destrue-
tion OF the pumping plant, which also
supplied the camps at Hastings, Delagua
and Berwind. Similar conditions exist
in probably a dozen mining camps in
Huerafano and Las Anmas counties
yesterday.
After the announcement that all the
women and children entombed in the
wrecked slope of the Empire mine had
been taken out in safety, came news
that the Southwestern mine buildings
had been RACED and twenty more miners,
their wives and children, and a number
of guards had fled into the mine en-
trance to escape hail of lead. Twenty
nine persons are known to have been
killed since Monday in the Ludlow bat
tie, four employees of the Victor Ameri-
can Fuel company are known to have
been killed Wednesday at Delagua and
the bodies of four strikers killed during
the fighting in and about Aguillar, are
lying in the morgue of that place.
Strikers cleared away the wreekage at
the mouth of the Empire mine, which
was closed by explosions of dynamite
and after a parley with the entombed
prisoners, conducted three women, two
and Superintendent William
WaddeE to a place of safety. j. w.
Siple, president of the company, whose
properties have been almost completely
destroyed during the outbreak and who
with twenty of his men had been in the
mine since Wednesday, refused to sur
render.