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Show STRIKERS ARE STILL SHOOTING I Battle in Hills Begins With Militia at Daybreak, Near Delagua. MEN ARMED TO TEETH Call for Help Sent to Ludlow and Hastings Three Guards Killed. Trinidad, Colo.. April 22. Thc lip-, lip-, ,de of the Empire mine near Aguilar : has been set on fire, and strikers have captured tho Southwestern mine in the same neighborhood, according to a report received here this morning. morn-ing. Both mines belong to the Southwestern Fuel company, an in dopomlent concern. It was" stated that J. W. Slpple, president of the company, with his I wife and five miners and their fam- illes, have taken refuge in the slope of thc Southwestern mine. All the saloons in Trinidad were closed at 1 o'clock today on orders of the city council and the chief of police. po-lice. John R. Lawson, oxccutlve' member of the United Mine Workers of America, Ameri-ca, was in Trinidad toda.y after being on' thc scene of much of the fighting In the Ludlow district. In tho course of a formal statement he said: ' "Monday morning Major Hamrock sent for Louis Tiskas to demand the release of somo men from the camp. Ti6kas went to meet Hamrock and never returned. 1 am unable to say of my own knowledge just how or when he met his death. The fighting then began. I can say positively who Tired the first shots." He added: "The story that ammunition was found in my tent Is a deliberate lie. There never was any ammunition in my tent." It wa3 stated that the undertakers' narty which started for Ludlow to bring back eleven bodies, had been turned back. . Trinidad, Colo.. April 22. Shooting in the hills north of Delagua started at daylight. Sovoral bullets struck into the camp but no damage was done. An attacking party, believed to be strikers from thc Aguilar district, dis-trict, clashed with a party of fifteen guards stationed at thc north side of the camp and In tho hills above. Reinforcements were sent tho Delagua Dela-gua guarda from Hastings and from tho military camp at Ludlow. Firing was still going on at S o'clock but no casualties were reported. Quiet prevailed early today In the Immediate vicinity of Ludlow. One of a party of newspaper men who left a Colorado & Southern train at Ludlow station early today was ordered by a militia officer to return to the train He continued his journey jour-ney to Trinidad. Smoke was still rising today from the ruins of thc Ludlow tent colony. Canvas Homes Destroyed. Black heaps of rubbish marked the sites of the canvas homes where two days ago men, women and children lived The only sign of life about th" p'laco was a mournful hungry dog prowling bewildered about the ruins of his master's tent. Thc station, the overhead bridge, and the roads were guarded by militiamen, armed to the teeth and with their belts bulging with ball cartridges. The men killed In the camp were Dave Donovan and Carl Johnson. Firing Fir-ing ceased at 8:15. Superintendent Snodgress of the Delagua mine reported re-ported that the state troops who came from Ludlow and Hastings In steel cars, took to the hills and fired several sev-eral volleys. No Information was available as to the casualties among thc attackero. According to mine company report, the attacking party appeared in the hills 'north of the camp. Delagua is located In the bottom nC a Hnnn pnnnn whlr.h at. that. Dnlnt runs nearly east and west. The village vil-lage surrounds the mine office and the company store, which are located a few hundred feet down canon from the double tipple which connects with the two mines, ono piercing each side of the canon. Three Guards Killed. A report to tho Victor-American Fuel company headquarters hore stated stat-ed that seven or eight guards who went into the hills to meet thc strikers strik-ers were still unaccounted for and that the remaining guards dared not go Into the hills to search for them." A call for help was sent to Ludlow and Hastings and militiamen were rushed to Delagua. In the course of the firing, thc mine orfice and the company store were pierced with rifle bullets. |