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Show STRIKERS VANISH IN THE MOUNTAINS TRINIDAD. Colo.. April 21. The Colorado Colo-rado national guard, with Adjutant Gen-oral Gen-oral Cha.se In personal command, is quartered quar-tered tonight at Ludlow, under strict orders or-ders to act only In case of attack, while John McLennan, president of district N"o. In. United Mine Workers of America, and other striko leaders are going from place to place among the hills adjacont. urging their followers to agree to a truce In the civil wnr that has raged almost Incessantly Inces-santly since early Monday in tho southern south-ern Colorado roal Melds. General Chase, following a telephono conference tonight with Governor Amnions Am-nions and .Lieutenant Governor Fitz-carrald. Fitz-carrald. conferred with Robert G. Bolton, in charge at local union headquarter, over plans to effect an armistice. The union leaders agreed to at once notlfv all armed strikers of the truce, and Gou-oral Gou-oral Chase announced that tho troops would rest upon their arms at .Ludlow indefinitely. The soldiers are quartered "in the Iroop train after a day's bloodless campaign cam-paign In tho sirike zone between AVal-senberg AVal-senberg anil Ludlow. General Chase denied de-nied that a shot had been tired all day. Late tonight he was preparing for an early conference with leaders of the United Minn "Workers of America in an effort to effect peace. Tho conference probably will take place early tomorrow. The strikers are quartered In tho Black hills, at Agullar and other points within a radius of live miles of Ludlow. Ask Federal Aid. In Trinidad the announcement that efforts ef-forts to effect a truce Is in. progress bad not served to allay public excitement. Scores of telegrams have been sent to Washington asking for federal intervention, interven-tion, and the news that no regular troops will be sent is disappointing to a large portion of the residents of the district, who believe that this Is the only final solution so-lution of the Industrial conflict. Deserted camps and tent colonics were all that confronted the state troops today to-day as they cautiously picked their wnv Into the disturbed district. At Rugby, whore a largo crowd of armed strikers was reported to have been Intrenched with the avowed determination of attacking attack-ing the Hoops, only empty tents were found. "Wo saw three men. and a bov at a distance." said General Chaso tonight "They were the only evidences of life about the place." Strikers Vanish. A crowd of armed strikers, estimated at 1!00. seen early pi the day near Bunker hill, vanished In the direction of Agullar A report that a skirmish preceded the retreat of the strikers was later denied by both military and union authorities. At tho Southwestern and lUmpiro mines and the Peerless pumping station a mass of smoldering ruins were found. The soldiers sol-diers released J W. Slplc and a party of refugees, who had been entombed in the Empire mine for throe days, but at tho fTwuthwestern min0 the mine prisoners pris-oners had escaped, it is said, following the evacuation of their besiegers at tho approach ap-proach of troops. "The amount of damage done during the past fow days Is simply appalling," i declared General Chaso upon his arrival in Ludlow. "The camps about Agullar are a mass of ruins," The piisonors in tho Empire mine, according ac-cording to II. D. King, one of tho owners, own-ers, were Superintendent Hay BIsch. his wife, daughter and two sons; Arthur Samples, Sam-ples, mine clerk; Joe Anderson, a miner, and George Norman, a prominent citizen of Agullar. Mr. Norman was defeated for the office of mayor of Agullar nt the town olectlon of April 7 by James Anderson, who, with the town board and others, yesterday prevailed upon tho strike leaders to tako the women, children and wounded men out of the Empire mine. The soldiers released the refugocs in tho Southwestern mine through the air shaft. The main stopo is still closed. No one was seen about the placo when the detail of soldiers arrived. Fifteen hundred silent, grim-visagod men, sobbing women and children crowded in front of. tho Holy Trinity church today whilo open-air funeral services were held for fourteen victims of the laidlow fire. Two heavy trucks draped in black conveyed the flower-laden flower-laden caskets from tho morgue to the church and Catholic cemetery. No Conclusion Reached. WASHINGTON, April 2-i. SpeaJcer Clark, Democratic Leader Underwood Chairman Foster of the- house mines committee. com-mittee. Representative Lewis of Maryland. Mary-land. President Gompers and Secretary Morrison of tho American Federation of Labor, conferred today In the speakor's office regarding the possibility of steps by tho federal government to meet the renewed striko troubles In tho Colorado coal fields. The suggestion was made that the house subcommittee might go back to Colorado and continuo Us investigation, but no condUBlon was reached. Makes Flat Denial. WASHINGTON. April 2-1. Secretary Garrison tonight flatly denied that any application had been mndo to tho war department for federal troops to aid In handling the Colorado strike situation. When told tonight that Governor Amnions Am-nions had been Informed that the department de-partment could Kparo no soldiers for this purpose Mr. Garrison fald: "No such application ban been made, and I have returned no such answer." IteprcBcntatlvo Taylor could not ho scon tonight. Hn had retired, loavlng Instructions In-structions that he was not to be disturbed. |