Show TROOPS MOVE TOW ARB THE IDE 1 COAL COALFIELDS fiELDS Governor Declares Martial Law in Southern Colorado UNABLE TO SECURE HOPED FOR SETTLEMENT two Twenty Infantry Companies Com Corn Three Iree Cavalry Troops Two Batteries DENVER Cab Colo Oct 28 A A threat to call upon the United States government govern ment mont for regular troops to help keep I order in the coal strike zone la is s contained con con- tallied in a statement issued today by Gov E. E M. M Ammons The governor 3 asserts as as- I ta that he declared martial law and called out the Colorado n national guard only after exhausting every means of peaceful settlement He outlines the program for forcible disarmament of both factions and adds This This program will be carried ou f if it takes ev every militiaman in the state stat and even oven if if- it should become necessary for m mo me to call upon the federal government gov gOY for assistance DENVER Cob Colo Oct 28 Mobilized 1 Mobilized in approximately six ho hours the commands com corn mands of ot the Colorado na national onal guard began moving toward the southern Co Colorado r do col coal fields today oday where martiaL mar mar- be est established b in compliance com corn pUa ce with proclamation Col Company A second r regiment gim nt Colo Ool Colorado rado redo national guard buard with Colonel Davis and regimental headquarters left here at today for the coal fields Tho The company proceeded ded to La Junta where other companies from frow Holly Lamar Ordway and La Junta wore being mob It seemed probable that these troops would reach Trini Trinidad ad bj by 2 0 o'clock this afternoon Strong Forces on Way By Br that hour or soon after eight companies com coin panics of state troops on their wa way in accordance with tho orders of Governor Go Ammons issued at 1 0 this thiH morning proclaiming a state of insurrection insurrection reached the scene of oC the coal miners' miners strike in in Huerfano and Las Animas An An- imas counties and before sundown it itis its itis is s expected that the they will be joined by jy cloven en other othor infantry companies three troops of cavalry and two batteries bat bat- teries tories of ul field i ld artillery from northeastern northeastern north north- eastern Colorado Three other infancy infantry try cy companies from we western tern Colorado will III arrive c s somewhat later The scene of the disturbances was wasI wasn in n tho the two counties of which Walsen burg jurg and Trinidad are arc the county seats scats I Tho The mines are aro located among tho foot foot- hills nils and are reached by Iby branches from the he Colorado Southern railroad and from Tom the Denver Rio Grande which run parallel a n few miles eastward Tb Tho station of Barnes where whore a brid bridge e v was ss reported dynamited last night j is the junction point of one ne of thesa branches and md the destruction of this bridge would would interrupt travel on that railroads railroad's s 's Trinidad Trin id idad d line I I I Governor Issues Statement Immediately after signing the order directing Adjutant General Chase to proceed to the mining district ct with the entire militia force of the state tate GoVernor Governor Gov GoV- Ammons Ammona made a statement of his I reasons for order I have haye no other recourse said ai 1 the gov governor Yesterday the situation I got jot awa away from everybody bod I am com corn jelled to act For Vor forty eight hours I had lad been trying to arrange a settle rn nt but hut the agreement tto to keep tie He during the ne negotiations was violated vio- vio and the events e of oC Monday showed that hat the the leaders lenders had not enough h authority authority au au- au to prevent outbreaks Anyone who rho wants waits to work ork will be been given en protection tion ion to go IO and conic como in peace but I Ivill Iwin win will not allow aHo th tIlt importation on of strikebreaker strikebreaker strike breaker reaker I mean to tr bo be fair to both sides while enforcing peace and protecting protecting pro pro- life Hie and prop property I The governor governor orders to the adjutant general prod proclaim jm a state of insurrection direct the disarming of oC both hoth strikers and mine mino guards order the closing of or I saloons in iR the district and the en en- of the order a against aind tho the iraI imI im ira I of strike breakers and pro hibit the Iho intrusion upon company compan prop prop- I of ot sll ilI II except workers I I Th They r direct th tin pr nHon ion of or law lawand I I and anil order and antI tho protection of ot life J II and md property I II Followed Series of Conferences I The ordering out of or the militia came after a series of conferences conference's that thaL began be boo booan gan an at 8 o'clock or Monda Monday morning rooming The strike leaders had yielded several points ami anil tho prospects pro for a peace peace- ful settlement of or tho the strike te looked good I when the outbreak of i was W re reported ro- ro ported 0 O 0 rh fh f fT t Inot in m l II L be- be I iiii II before i 41 i tic the nor ovo-nor that a n hundred deputies hail bail fired ired upon I the tent colony ot the at I J und and that tho iho replying with j Co Continued on ou page pogo 6 62 I 11 TROOPS MOVE TOWARD COAL FIELD Continued from page I I. I shots had caused tho the retreat of a trainload trainload train train- i load of guards proceeding to tho the Tabasco Tabasco Tabasco Ta Ta- basco mine said sald to bo be besie besieged cd by br the strikers strikers' The Tho report that the deputies had fired first was later denied denie Late in the afternoon ou ji a p party rt of If guards Proceeding acro across s tho the hills to the re re relief lief of the Tabasco mine was attacked by strikers rK near and el in in the thc ensuing exchange C of shots it was re reported reported re- re ported tha that two strikers were killed and nd five were wounded A report that tho the strikers had captured seven cn mine guards could not bo be confirmed but jt it t was admitted the tho strikers striker had haa taken possession i lI of a t Colorado Southeast Southeastern ern nin switch engine Th The latest outbreak reported after tho the governor bad had to order out this tho troops was the dynamiting of the railroad bridge at nt Barnes Barne |