The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-28
REAL WAR NEWS
FROM COLORADO
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mines, large groups OF mon were
visible maneuvering closer to Nc
Nally where they poured in terrific
FIRE on the mine guards defending the
property. Then an automobile shot
out OF tho camp at racing speed. the
strikers firing repeatedly at it. In it
was Superintendent Thomas Davis
and his family. At the first physici-
clans house the machine stopped and
it was then seen that Maggie Greg
Org, a cousin of the superintendent,
| who had been visiting him, was
wounded. She was taken into the
Doctors house and her wound in the
left arm treated.
AS soon as Davis passed safely, q
dozen mine guards ran from the
boarding house towards banked
ditch towards Walsenburg. Just as
they reached 1t, one man Was seen to
whirl and fall. HIS companions did
not stop, but Ieaped into the ditch
and began firing.
A few minutes later six men ran
from the hills towards several mine
buildings and the boarding house
was soon in flames.
The fire quickly spread to the bunk
house and at dark most Of the camp
buildings were burning. A horseman
just at this time dashed from the
camp, making for the shelter OF some
pinon trees. He had nearly reached
them when he pitched from his horse
to the ground, shot Evidently the
man had fled from terrific explosion
which followed almost Immediately,
wrecking the ttpple.
It waa shortly after this that the
mine guards retreated towards the
Walsen mine, firing az they ran.
Three Hundred Dead.
WASHINGTON, April zs.-Federal
troops Will in all probability be en-
route TO the Colorado coal strike
zone before nightfalI. President Will
con took up with Secretary OF War
( Garrison, before the cabinet meeting
today, the advtszbility Of granting
Governor AmmonE' request and utiliz-
ling the regular army TO end the ad-
mfttedly fntolerabIe conditions. The
house committee on mines and mining
has agreed tina. only the presence OF
regulars who will compel both sides
to disarm, viii end the campaign OF
bIoodshed which has already claim
ed some 300 victims. many OF them
defenselesg women and children 1t
| is. understood that orders were sent
TO the commanding officers at Fort d.
! A. Russell, Cheyenne. wyo., to hold
four troops OF cavalry ready to start
| for Trinidad. He has also been d.
irscted TO secure necessary transpor-
tatfon at once.
The dispatch OF the troops win be
the answer Of the administration to
the refusal of John d. Rockefeller
to make a single concession 20 end
/ the intoIerable industrial warfare.
Some OF the mines are expected to
shu. down indefinitely after the reg
ular troops get there. Just which vii.
do 80, or the reason, no one here
knows. The orders TO be given to
he regulars will be one OF the sub.
jects under discussion today. They
will not work under the Colorado
local authorities. It has been direct.
" charged that the real cause for the
present trouble fs that in nearly every
I instance. sheriffs Of counties and
Commanding officers Of cate troops
are in the pay OF the coal companies
and have obeyed the orders Of the
genera, managers of the various
mines to extermfnate the strikers
liz this is so, It viii be all changed