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Show 3?i t on pi n ii ii'S 1 1 1 rfli taty'ls 1 info i idSkbout 30 Men, Women ifMsLiid Children, Besieged tf53lin Empire Mine Near toil) ' Jj Aguilar, Face Death by-he by-he 3 fSuffocation; Mouth of tS Sfcope Caved in. ptERCE BATTLE a (' LASTS ALL DAY AS I Coijj jjpdies of 14 Victims of iuS Ludlow Horror Ar- rive in Trinidad; Entire 2f National Guard of the Yi State on Way to Strike Sfj (Zone. Trf I lerGg I TRINIDAD, Colo., April 23. fli i0f tho Empire mine, stated Dtttl long distance telephone early jphtifc today that 1000 men had assembled fflfS f Affullar t0 attack Uio troop Stttrr. ltralnB "P011 their arrival from Dcn- ,( fit ver. Mr. King had no further in- id c pformation as to the fate of the a'-' El1"511 5111(1 W01UCU "bosioged in the tbe ijEinpiro mine. Bo's Flowf? t TRINIDAD, Colo., April 22. offjJ pJnion loaders admitted late tonight I lthat Partic5 of "recruits" aggro- gating about 300 had left Trinidad ijj Jtin small detachments during the t A night, marching afoot in tho diroc-i diroc-i er (lion of Ludlow. Thoy refused to a pitf1 tatc Wbat wns lhc Purpose of tlio jjnest ) movement. itffl A telcphoue message from tho ,r in? tinlUtary camp at Ludlow stated f'foi ttat U0WR of tho aPPach of the i t L8trJll0r had been received and that 3 a 0 preparations wore being mado to fijjj-j withstand an attack. Tho military 2fw orco at Ludlow consists of about ilOO men, with several machino guns. W' J. yTRlXIDA D. Colo., April 22. About of$j j?rt-v n,ei1, wu ".l children, be- -Pf'1 ' the Umpire mine, near Aguilar, 3tf, the 'iiouth of the alone caved in alary dynamite explosions, faced death by '0l-'alion tonight, according lo If. D. SWj "C 0f tho mvnrs of the mine. SI?8, ,ll"t"-'lf practically a prisoner in 0ftb? noil9c' noL fr from the mine, pave s'Jjjj ,lory by lonj,' dislaucc ieloplioue. 'Jiti jfot a 1,01,50 or a stiftl of overhead ,SW 2rtinKS W,S ,ofl s,ai,tIinK the cam), rltbl or,li"K 10 KiK. The mine tipple had sfii jjfni bt the interior of tho mine sotSE "0t bct'n fircd- rf tho ran been bablf (K out of commission, as roportod, Mr. Ct! bt,l"uvcil that the dauber of suifn- citv(Ki0" wns 5m,,li"t, All firinc had .ferffpwed before It o'clock. jSfJK,e in Command. liopn command of tho bcsicccd party tfMmb J', W" SiP,e of louver, manager of tijBf- mLnc of the Southwestern Fuel JtiflBP'y- 'Mrs. William Wnddoll and tB', baby Woro 5,1 th" ,llino onc report ,Ufii?SBiUB ihat Xb- Watl,le11 ll1 been ? jpnloj. Mr. Waddell, superintendent (ContIuued on Pafi Eight.) 21 KILLED SO FAR II IIIII FIGHT (Continued from Pago One.) ' of the Empire mine, generally was bc-lievod bc-lievod to have bcon killed. Mr. King, however, said he still had hopes that. Waddoll was with tho party in tho mine. He thought, also, that there was a chance that John Church was safe. "This evening I asked the strikers to permit me to go to the atopo and rescue the besieged persons," said Mr. King. "They replied that anyone who went near the mine would be shot. The Royal mine tipple and shaft have been destroyed de-stroyed and some of iho strikers told me that they had "cleaned up tho whole canyon." Outbreak at Rugby. The tlnal outbreak of the day was reported re-ported from Rouse. In Huerfano county, where It was stated an attack hnd been made upon the Rugby and Primrose mines at Rugby station. A message was received at the local offices of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company stating that a bomb was exploded nt the Rugby mine early tonight. The story was told hy a parly of six: mlnera and four women that arrived on foot from the Black Diamond mine, a short distance hcioss the hill. Heavy tiring wns reported at that time. In anticipation of an attack at Roufo, all of tho women and children In the camp wore hastily removed to Lester, where they were placed In cement houses. Later word was received nt Rouse that tho attncklng party hnd turned back toward Green canyon. Heavy Firing at Night. No outbreaks of a serious character occurred elsewhere In Huerfano county todny. according to Sheriff A. B. Karr. Strikers carrying rifles paraded the streets of Walscnburg, ho said, all during dur-ing tho evening. The same condition was reported late tonight at Agullar. Heavy tiring broke out early tonight at Ludlow and lasted for about half an liour. What precipitated the shooting Is not known. A man who left Agullar at 7 o'clock tonight and who requested that his name be suppressed "becauso I have to go back to Agullar," said that fonr or five strikers had been killed by the defenders defend-ers of the Empire mine and their bodies taken to n morgue nt Agullar. He said the tipple und all the buildings at Empire Em-pire hnd been burned,, Superintendent Waddoll was reported to have been kllledr but his fnte wns not known to a certainty cer-tainty to anyono in the town. It was considered possible that he might be among the refugees besieged In tlie mine. Return the Fire. This Informant declared that at G o'clock the party which had taken refuge In the mine still w.'us keeping up n brisk flro from the mouth of tho stopc at the attacking strikers. This statement, If accurate, was taken ns disproving tho earlier report, that the mouth of the stopc had been sealed and the mlno fired. The Agullar man said he had heard one shot of dynamite before leavlnff for Trinidad Trini-dad and that he believed It waa exploded at the Empire mlno. He said tho Southwestern South-western mine had not been attacked. A crowd of miners from one of tho near-by mines, ho said, was brought to the union hall at Agullar. One striker, who snld ho had lost his family In the lire at the Ludlow colony, demanded that all the prisoners be killed. Cooler heads prevailed pre-vailed and the captives finally were released. re-leased. This may be the same Incident referred to In an earlier report, when it was slated that a party of prisoners wa taken to the tent colony of the strikers. The fighting at Delagua began soon after daybreak, with a clash between fifteen guards and a large body of miners. TWs clash occurred In the hills a mile or more from the camp, where the guards am declared to have gone to meet the approaching strikers. There was hot fighting at close range for a few minutes, then the guards retreated toward the camp, the pursuing strikers at their heels. Tho strikers reached the crest of tho canyon can-yon directly above the camp, then rushed for the mine buildings. Mlno company reports declared that In this rush dynamite dyna-mite was exploded by the attacking party. A party of militiamen, hastily sent from Ludlow In steel cars, reinforced tho guards and after heavy fighting tho strikers were driven back. a Strikers Appear. Shortly afterward a party of strikers appeared In tho Augilar district, separated sepa-rated from tho Hastlngs-Delagua canyon by a high range of hills. Tho assailants of Delagua In the meantime had vanished In the direction of Agullar. The attacks on the Agtdlar mines followed. A parly carrying the flag of the American Ameri-can Red Cross, which left Trinidad late today for the Ludlow tent colony to recover re-cover the fourteen bodies reported to be In the ruins of the demolished shelters, was expected to return during the evening. even-ing. Trinidad was a scene of tenso excitement excite-ment tonight. The saloon.s hnd been closed by order of the city council and the chief of police, but throngs of mon still congregated on the streets. Labor headquarters were Jammed with strikers, mostly aliens, and the ciowd overflowed to the sidewalk. Many women and children from the Ludlow tent colony wore In Trinidad, cared for by union sympathizers. Throughout Through-out tho day steady streams of strikers passed in and out of the morgue where lay the bodies of several victims of the Ludlow battle. Shortly before S o'clock this ovening a crowd of strikers, armed with rlllcs, left the United Mine Workers' headquarters and went to tho Atchison, Topokn & Santa Ire station, with tho .alleged avowed Intention of shooting a smnll party of militiamen who had Just marched past the union headquarters on their way to take a train for Denver. The strikers reached the station a few minutes before the train started, and lined up near tho track ready to shoot. For some reason, however, they dispersed without molesting molest-ing the soldiers. Rain Clears Streets. Soon afterward a violent thunderstorm, with hall and wind and torrents of rain, cleared the streets, and residents of Trinidad breathed easier than they had for twenty-four hours. At union headquarters no explanation was given of the miscarriage of the plan to shoot the militiamen. John R. Lawson, when asked point-blank If union officers had ordered the men to disperse, refused to answer. "If T should say that T had power to stop tho men doing anything like that, pcoplo would think I also had power to start something of the same kind," he explained. ex-plained. Lnwson mild he had no definite reports of the lighting at Delagua nnd Agullar, and that ho did not know whether the strikers In both attacks were the same. Asked as to the fate of the men and women who were reported to have taken refune In the Empire mine, he snld, "That would be a very bad place to seek safety. Even If the mouth of the mine were not blocked, persons Inside would be in groat danger If the tipple were burned." . "Is that your understanding of what actually took place?" the labor leader was asked. No Difference Now. "I have no understanding of what took place. All I have lu.-aid from there Is very Indefinite." Iiwson said he had no Idea of how the 'Wilts at Delagua and Aiiuilar started. "But that makes no difference now," he added: "anybody Is likely to start a light any time. This is n state of worfnre. I can see no end to the presonC situation except that this fhrhtlng ivlll continue until one sddc or the other gets licked." Lnwson .declared Hint the union officials hod anted the union miners In the Colorado Colo-rado Springs district, who quit work today to-day and announced that they were com- ilnp'to the strike zone to help fight the mfililamen, to no buck to work. "Those nuui were under contract to work for their employon," ho tfald, "and We lold them not to break . their con- i ! tracts, even for the sake of aiding us. I think we Induced them to go back to work." The strike leader asserted, however, that the ranks of the union's army In the hills constantly wcro growing stronger. |