New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-23
Penned in Flaming Shaft
House as Strikers Hurl
Dynamite Into Shops.
MEN AND BABY ALSO
FACE DEATH IN TOMB
Camps Riddled with Bullets in
Days Battle - Plea to
Wilson for Troops.
rpv Telegraph to The Tribune.l

nv Telegraph 70 INC 4flVNH''I
Trinidad. Col. April 22.-J. w. Siple'
president Of the Southwestern Fuei
Companv: his superintendent chief
engineer. fifteen non-uniOn miners I'VE
women and a baby are trapped ana
held prisoners in the flaming smart
house of the Empire mine. near Agul-
lar. bv armed strikers. according TO re-
norris which reached Trinidad tonight
Hope for the life Of any Of the party
except possibly the women and the
child. has been abandoned.
Three mine guards are known to he
dead. while hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars in property damage has been
done as a result Of continuous fighting
which ragged through the Ludlow strike
district to-day.
Two mine shafts OF the Broadhead
and Royal. both independent COM
panies. are in ashes. At $50 O'Clock
tonight II. B. King, one of the owners
sent word by telephone from the I'm
pire mine that the attacking party was
throwing dynamite into the slope
where between twenty and thirty men,
women and children are said to have
taken refuge.
Facing the certainty that the fighting
will be renewed tomorrow, Mayor
Dunleavy Of Trinidad. members OF the
Council and the Chamber Of Com
merce. by kilograms to Washington to-
night. asked President Wilson for fed
eral troops.
Around the storm centres Of the hght
-Delagu. the Black Hills and the can
yons near Aguilar-strikers' lines. con-
stantly reinforced. are steadily drawn
tighter as the workers, incensed at the
discovery that many Of their dead in
the ruins Of the Ludlow tent colony
had disappeared. pursued their pro-
sramme Of vengeance.
What became Of the bodies IS mys-
terry. The strikers say the bodies have
been destroyed with dynamite and
otherwise disposed of by the militia. To
support this, they point out that rapid
ire guns in the hands Of soldiers have
prevented the entrance Of any one to
the former site Of the ruined tent col
ony until late to-day.
John r. lawson said tonight that
he and the others heard dynamite ex-
plosions all this forenoon.
According TO Major Hammock. in com
maD9 Of the state troops, the Charred
debris which covers the site Of the
camp has remained undisturbed since
the fire Of Monday night. Fifteen
bodies. thirteen women and two chill
dren. are known 70 have been in one
SPOT. while It IS supposed that further
investigation would have disclosed
many more in the safety pits similar TO
that in which the original thirteen
were discovered.
The coal camps at Delagua and Hast
ings were burned 70 the ground to-
day. At Delagua 400 armed strikers
fred upon the tents. a woman and two
children we're killed. These, with the
thirty-three known dead at Ludlow and
the three guards killed at Guilar. bring
the total UP TO thirty nine.
John d. Rockefeller, jr., is said by
the union 20 be responsible for the
present trouble because Of his state
ment before the Congress committed
At meeting in Denver this after
noon Of the Woman's Peace Associa-
ton, composed Of Denver's "3e" and
other public spirited women, Mrs. Mary
c. c. Bradford said:
While Colorado is disgracing herself
in the eyes Of the world the man who
is responsible for this disgrace sits
in his office in New York City. He is
John D. Rockefeller, IT, His state
ments before the Congressional com
mittee not only emboldened the weak
and criminally disposed soldiers Of the
state. but they caused the miners 70
arm for war 10 the death because they
realized what his remarks would bring
forth"
The bodies OF elev n children. two WON
en- and one man were found late to-day
In and about the ruins OF the Ludlow
tent colony by a Red Cross searching
party.