| Show COLORADO STRIKERS AND GUARDS CLASH AT DELAGUA DELAGOA TWO KILLED IN m CAMP 3 REPORTED DEAD IN HILLS NII 3 TROOPER RS fIR ON I I MINERS 4 No Information tion as as' to Casual S ties Amon Among ng Atta Attacking g r Party Party Par Group of th tl the Ie 2 I a. a Guardsmen D pear f P TRINIDAD N DAD Colo April 22 Henry Heavy fighting Js is r reported to have been t In progress at Del Delagua a. a liter after ter 11 t Armed strikers wore were s swarming swarming- into t the I hills i S nort 1 north of ot town and firing ng into the camp Two Killed in Cam Oam Camp f S A A report port at the i offices i l of the ha VI Victor Victor- American Fuel company r J Wt ii b killed in the theand e and that t three guards w ir killed killed- in the he hills above the call ron ii Fire Volleys In Hills HUll The men killed in iu the camp w were e Dave Donovan and Carl Oad J Johnson on Firing Firing Fir Fir- ing fug ceased at Su Superintendent Snodgrass of ot th the Delagua Delagna Delag mine reported that the at state te troops who came cam from f and Hastings in steel cars care took to t the the hills hills hillsand and fired and fired cd severn several volleys vOlle No information was available as to the casualties aaron among amonA the a. a attackers Ac lAc c cording t to toy to mine company's rop t the att attacking king party appeared in the e 1 lulls hills north of ot U the e camp Delagua Delagna is located in the he bottom of af a 3 adeep adeep deep canyon y n which at that point runs ns nearly e east st and nd west w west st st. The go surrounds ear sur rounds rounds the mine office and the tho Com company y 5 store ore which are located a few hundred feet o d-o down the canyon from froni ih the double tipple which connects with th the tho two Continued on page at 16 COLORADO STRIKERS' STRIKERS I J Continue 1 from page 1 3 1 n Hanf es one oue piercing in c each ch cide of the oli i A 1 o the Victor American Victor Fuel c hero stated 1 that seven fe or t guardsmen lr n who wont went into uto the meet tJI t. t the stokers S were ro still un tin G 1 Disappear ri tel ti t cI Jot or for aril and that tb the remaining not go into tho the hills to toi i ea i to for f 01 them f IJ t union union- b s where berc a ati a ti nail qt Strikers striker i ml sympathizers ti tlc tall ami tho sidewalk g tar tor s. it was liras that J hail hm got ot into nto Delagua la and antI j r I tho tho- 4 Jt OO ia HUlsI Hills HUls I I I t t ii i J were cre supported the reports I HII n stated d. b by l in an flip hills It t was f V il thop 1 I 1111 91 tl come from 1 Lud Lud- 1 10 Hr I h I bodie of 11 tho thole e Killed in the I II bait bad been toc to I J c carp carh today Eleven hl more I tear Ilc d two women women and Inri nine children had I ti JD and aud were expected to arr U rl r p. p noon nOOD i K Th the r bodies lodies were were c e laid out out in an im- im tro morgue in lD an undertaking cs- cs Ghastly moles holes in several i kull showed wc where rifle or machine machine- gun bullets had ploughed herl their way Hour flour after hour streams of solemn faced laborers laborer t Greeks Slavs Mexicans ait ot natives of r pd 0 every P. QUO ter tor of the globe lobo filed into tho the morgue gazed silently at the dead and passed passed out Union officials were making preparations preparations preparations t for the burial of tho dead Quiet prevailed early aTI today toda- In the Immediate immediate im Im- Im mediate vicinity of or Ludlow One One of or a apart party part of newspaper men wife left a Colorado Colo Colo- rado Southern train traina a at t Ludlow early today was ordered by a militia officer to return to the train He continued his Journey journe to Trinidad Smoke was waR still sun rising today from tho the ruins of or the Ludlow Lud Ludlow Ludlow low tent colony Only D g Remains Black heaps heals of rubbish marked the sites of the canvas a homes where two days das ago men women and children lived The only I sign Ign of life tire about the place lace was a. a mournful mourn ful ul hungry do dog prowling bewildered about the ruins o of His masters master's tent tont The Tho station station sta sta- tion the overhead bridge bride and the roads were larded guardedly militiamen armed to the te teeth th and with their belts bulging with will ball cartridges More than n arm armed strikers and members of ot tho the Colorado national guard who had slept on arms throughout the plight 1 00 today tod with the expectation of or a e. momentary attack ck each fa faction closely Jo el watching the other for tor the first sign Ign of action Reports that the guardsmen guardsmen guards guards- men were to attempt a sortie with their machine guns gunK In an Rn effort to escape from their lr precarious po position where the they are arc surrounded b by strikers served ser to add to to th the tension which already Is at a breakIng breakIng break break- In Ing point The rhe sold soldiers len on the other I hand and had heard of It reinforcements b by th the hundreds hundred who were supposed to bo be on their theIra a way to aid the 8 strikers March Through Streets Arid nd all through i the night hi big silent determined J a arid and rid well a armed strikers did didn n march singly hr by y twos ami and In groups through l h the he streets of or Trinidad out from I Fremont county count and other ther nearby ten tent colonies on to Ludlow They were silent for they had heard of ot the tho awful disaster that had overtaken the women and children children children chil chil- dren of the tho Ludlow colony where even today bodles bodies of or possibly more than a n. score He lie burned and suffocated In the rifle pits which had been dug secretly beneath tho tiro crude flooring of the tents They knew that twenty six of or their dead had begs been recovered and Identified and they knew that the final count of dead was not yet made Go Out for Dead Acting In compliance with requests from the American Rc Red l Cross In Denver MaJ H H. J J. J Ham Hamrock Hamro rock l gave ga permission last night for tor the strikers under flag of to togo togo togo go upon the field for the dead ad and wounded wound wound- ed where here the tho battle of Monday londa occurred But as as jet et all bodies have not been re re- re covered Union officials have asked the American Red Cross to send their thell own men mon upon the tho battlefield ld ld for the they fear I Ithe the tho flag Clag of truce will not bo be honored by bythe bythe I Ithe the guardsmen and none Im has ventured I close to the outposts of or the militia camp I Reinforcements Reinforcements' for fo tilt mill were ere considered con con- I Impossible here hero today toda- as 88 Adjutant General Chase Chae positively refused ed to send I more moro troops Into tho the field Held and cv even n intimated intimated inti inti- mated it was a rumored that those no nono now no are engaging the strikers would he be recalled the moment the they succeeded In breaking through the surrounding ers era Citizens of Trinidad however have volunteered their services to Sheriff Grisham and on tin nn order from him will march to Ludlow in an effort to quell the disastrous disturbance of or the p peace acc in that section ot the strike zone Want Ammons to Act Keen Interest was taken here In th the theof of or Governor GO Ammons It t Is the hc I I I I I I general desire here that the state executive ex ex- I ex-I now In Washington give consent consent consent con con- sent to Lieutenant Governor Go Fitzgerald to I call a a. special session of the state assembly assembly assembly assem assem- bly to finance the return of or the militia mUltia I to the southern coal fields It was considered Improbable l toda today that I the present situation with Its and ande e. e excitement could end without additional bloodshed Many of ot the strikers strikers' women and children It was reported were forced to spend th the night on the bare ground bete between ven en here and Ludlow Ludlo where they I drop dropped ed from exhaustion after atter their flight from the flames names and bullets which ravIshed ravished ray ray- their homes In the tent colony It ItIs ItIs It Is the tho treatment of or the women and ebB chil children dren dlen which has wrought the greatest do- do degree de dc- Free gree of ot bitterness and hatred against the militia and though tho Major Hamrock de denies denies denies de- de nies emphatically that his men had anything anything any any- thing to do with Ith the the- destruction de 0 of the tent colon colony and Its subsequent toll toU of death the strikers will Ill listen to no other version of the tragedy Probably Wont Won't Avail Little hope Is 4 felt tell hero here that the the the-ar arrangement arrangement ar- ar for an n armistice made last night over telephone b by John McLennon president of or the Colorado di division slon of Or the Wilted United Mine Uno Workers of America and Lieutenant Governor Go Fitzgerald will avail and the strikers are arc not in fu favor or of It It Is the general opinion that the present present pres pres- resent res- res ent clash between between strikers strikers and guardsmen guards guardsmen guards men will be one to the finish upon which even th the fate tote of or the strike itself may ha hang ns |
