The Detroit times., 1914-04-23

LEGISLATURE, which will convene
here Nav ., were aid today by
the governors enemies In the low
er house, who have been denounc-
inu his attitude in the coal mine
strike In southern Colorado, ae-
cordina 10 authoritative reports
this afternoon.
TRINIDAD, Col. April 23.-Thirty'
FIVE persons, Including i've women and
three children, trapped in the blazing
shaft house OF the southwestern Fuel
cOIppany's mine at Empire, near
Aguilar. are In grave danger OF death,
according 20 telephone adyiees from
there at ar early hour today TWEEN
ty-1ve persons in the shaft OF the
Southwestern mine are said 10 be fac
Ing similar fate.
Matthew WaddelL son OF the ssper.
intendent. and his wife; Ray Wrswald'
his Wife and baby, and three other
women and two children whose names
are not available are said TO be in the
mine at Empire.
Late dispatches say 600 armed
strikers are gathering at Aguilar and
ralSSg fNe Of the Cesorado & southern
railroad 10 cut or relief OF the two.
mines, ana. 70 halt troop train from
Denver with reinTorcementS~ Some
OF the strikers are quoted as saying
that no soldiers VIII be allowed 10
pass their lines
The burning OF the Empire and
Auilar properties followed a day un-
paralleled in the history OF American
industrial warfare.
The burning OF the Empire mine
followed a clash early Wednesday be.
tween mine guards and southwestern
Colorado coal strikers. Operators
representatives here accuse the strik-
ers OF throwing dynamite bombs and
sealing the mouth OF the mine against
escape by the 35 persons imprisoned
within II D. King one OF the own
ers OF the mine. telephoned early to-
day that the stoDe OF the shaft had
been destroyed and that the air shaft
was the only path 20 safety He as
serted that 500 strikers surround the
/ blazing pit, firing into II, and that the
imprisoned persons include President
! Sipple OF the mining company, living
! in Denver He charges that strikers
have asked him TO remember how the
women and children died at Ludlow
and have threatened to shoot anyone
who goes 10 the rescue"
! Operators early today said they had
reports that six coal properties are
| burning, including the Victor Ameri-
| can Fuel Co.'S Hastings and Delagua
mines. and the Green Cannon mine OF
the National Fuel Co.
Scores are homeless and missing
and scores are reported hurt while in
the hills Strikers await the COM
| ing OF troops ordered from Denver and
other northern Colorado points by act
| ing Gov. Fitzgerald last night. II IL
/ feared that the strikers, enraged Dy
4 the killing OF women and children IN
| Mondays Ludlow horror, will open
another attack on the mine guards
and state troops.
! The entire strike district. from
Rouse. 10 miles south or Walzenburg,
| to Delagua. four miles northwest OF
Ludlow station, is in the possession OF
/ the strikers Armed men are gather
! ing about the coal camps at Rugby
! primero and Black Diamond end at
tacks on these are momentarlly eN-
pected. Three battles were fought
Yesterday at Delagua, the Black Hllls
! and the Empire mine. Three mine
guards were slain at Delagua ana TWO
are missing. Meanwhile 300 armed
men are reported marching 10 Ludlow
! 10 make an attack on the militia com
panies stationed there under MAJ. +.
IT. Hammock. Hammock telephones
that he has 100 troops and two ma
chine guns. 10 oppose them. On ac-
count or this fact Hammock has been
unable TO send soldiers 10 Empire 10
check the flames or defend the lives
| OF persons imprisoned in the mine
An intense feeling prevails here.
| The strikers are showing extreme nos
tility to the militia. Nearly every
body Is armed and IL would require
very little to provoke an outbreak
The troops ordered from Denver are
anxiously awaited.
Major Dunleavy and other officials
in this section have telegraphed Pres
ident Wilson 10 send federal troops,
asserting that only In that way VIII
civil war be averted in Colorado
Nineteen victims OF the Ludlow
! tragedy will be buried at Trinidad IN
one big funeral. Friday The bodies
| most OF them women and little emil
dren are lying at the morgue. All
have been identified.
Wednesday the bodies or IL chlE
dren and two women were taken from
! the death cellar OF the tent at Lud-
I low, virrrr- trey vt-r,--it-iA trapped
the guns OF the militia in Monday )
/ fight
! The cellar is 10 feet deep and at
| the bottom less than six feet square.
/ In this hole lay the bodies, heabed to-
gether The mothers Mrs. Charles
I Costa and Mrs :. Chavez had evil
IDENTITY tried % shelter with their
bodies their helpless little ones. But
| the babies one of them more than
I'm struggled when sunocating
\ smoke crept down
Their little hands. SCARED by the
flames. showed how they had reached
out, trying TO pull themselves ont OF
/ the flames.
! Edward A. Evans. Denver Express
representative. barred from the l.ud
Y low district by Adjt-Gen Chase was
/ one OF the party that drew the scared
corpses from the ruins OF the tent
colony and loaded them on the dead
wagons which bore them 10 Trinidad.
1.-THE party. Under protection OF the
! Red Cross flag. was finally allowed
20 pass by the militia men.
Before the party left an automo-
Ia al "a road