Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-23
Fighting in Colorado Coal
Fields Is Resumed at
the Break of Day
LIST OF THE DEAD
is NOT AVAILABLE
Many Are Killed, However,
According to Reports
Being Circulated

Trinidad, Colo, April ga re-
port at the offices Of the VictorAmeri-
can Fuel Co., from Superintendent B.
W. Snodgrass said two men had been
killed in the Delagua camp and that
three guards were reported killed In
the hills above the canon.
The men killed in the camp were
Dave Donovan and Carl Johnson Fir
ing ceased at 8:15 a. M Superintend-
ent Snodgrass Of the Delagua mine re.
ported that the state troops who came
from Ludlow and Hastings in steel
cars, took to the hills and fred several
volleys. No information was available
as to casualties among the attackers.
According to mine company reports,
the attacking party appeared In the
hills north Of the camp.
At union headquarters, where
crowd Of strikers and sympathizers
jammed the ante-room and the side.
walk waiting for news, 1t was stated
that sixty Greeks had got into Delagua
and were taking the camp
They were supported the report
1 from union headquarters stated, by
about 400 strikers In the hills. II was
= aid the strikers had come from Lud-
low and Aguilar.
Quiet prevailed early today In the
immediate vicinity of Ludlow. One of
party Of newspaper men who left
Colorado and Southern train at Ludlow
station early today, was ordered by
militia officer to return to the train.
He continued his journey to Trinidad
Smoke was still rising today from the
ruins of the Ludlow tent colony Black
heaps of rubbish marked the sites or
the canvas homes where two days ago
men, women and children lived Tho
only sign OF life about the place was a
mournful hungry dog, prowling be-
wildered about the ruins of his mas.
ters tent. The station, the overhead
! bridge and the rods were guarded by
militiamen armed to the teeth ana
with their belts gingling with ball cart.
ridges.
Sleep Under Arms.
More than six hundred armed strik-
ers and 100 members Of the Colorado
national guard who had slept on arms
throughout the night awoke today with
the expectation of momentary az.
tack.
Reports that the guardsmen were to
attempt sortie with their machine
guns in an effort to escape from thei.
precarious position where they arc
surrounded by strikers, added to the
tension which already is at breaking
point. The soldiers, on the other
hand. had heard Of reinforcements bv
the hundreds who were supposed to
be on their way to aid the strikers
All through the night determined
and well armed strikers marched
through the streets of Trinidad, out
from Fremont county and other near
by tent colonies, on to Ludlow where
burned bodies of possibly more than
score of women and children lie In
the rifle pits and trenches which had
been dug secretly beneath the crude
flooring of the tents. Twenty-six OF
the dead have been recovered and iden-
titled but the final count has not yet
been made.
Soldiers Distrusted.
Acting in compliance with requests
from the American Red Cross in Den
yer. Major Hamrock gave permission
last night for the strikers under flag
of truce, to 60 upon the field for the
dead and wounded where the fight OF
Monday occurred. But as yet all bod
les have not been recovered. Union
officials have asked the American Red
Cross to send their own men on the
battlefield, for they fear the flag OF
truce will not be honored by the
guardsmen and none have ventured
close to the outposts of the militia
camp.