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Show v 'ujwimc;, ugaen, utan. GOVERNOR OF COLORADOHWAY I CALL FOR UNITED STATES TROOPS I Executive Determined to Keep Order in Coal Strike Zone If Federal Aid Has to be Invoked Martial Law Already Declared and State National Guard Sent to Scene. ALL PEACEFUL MEANS ARE EXHAUSTED 1 Both Factions to be Forcibly Disarmed Program Will Be Carried Out If Every Militiaman in Commonwealth Is Required and Call for Assistance From Regular Army Becomes Necessary. ' r. Denver, Colo., Oct. 28 A threat j to call upon the United States gov-j gov-j eminent for regular troops to help keep order in the coal strike zone Is contained In a statement Issued j today by Governor E. M. Ammons. ; The governor asserts that he de-; de-; clared martial law and called out tbe ( Colorado national guard only after exhausting every means of peaceful j settlement. He outlines the program 1 for forcible disarmament of both fax--i tlons, and adds: This program will be carried out I if It takes every militiaman In the I state, and even if It should become necessary for me to call upon the ! federal government for assistance. Denver, Oct 28 At noon today eight companies of state troops, on their way in accordance with the orders or-ders of Governor Ammons, Issued at i -'i this morning, proclaiming a stale of Insurrection, will have reach ed the scene of uie coal miners' strike In Huerfano and Las Animas counties, and before sundown it is expected that they will be Joined b eleven other infantry companies, three troops of cavalry anc two battTif of field artillery from northeastern Colorado Three other infantry eoni ; panics from western Colorado will ar rive somewhat later Tho scene of the disturbances was in the two counties of which Walsen-burg Walsen-burg and Trinidad nre t ti- count) seats. The mines are located among the foothills, and are reached by branches from the Colorado & South- ern rnllroad and from Denver & Rio : Grande, which parallel a few mile1 1 eastward The station of Barne3. where n bridge as reported dynanil I ted last night. Is tbe Junction point of one of ihse brancnea, and the i' 'strucilon of this bridge would Intel nipt travel on that railroad's Trinidad Trini-dad line Governor Makec Ctatement Immediately after Bigning the order J directing Adjutant General Chase to proceed to the mining district, with : the entire militia fore of the state Governor Ammons made a statement i of his reasons for Issuing the order, j i have no other recourse " said the governor, "yesterday the sltua tlon got away from everybody. I am compelled to act. For forty-eight hours 1 had been trying to arrange a : settlement but l ho agreement to keep I the peace during tbe negotiations wa? violated, and the events of Monday showed that the leaders had nut enough authority to prevent out breaks Anyone who wants to work will be given protection to go and com" In peace, but I will not allow the Importation of strikebreakers I mean to be fair to both sides, Whllo enforcing peace and projecting )if' and properly." The governor's ordT to the adjti tant general proclaim a state of in surrectlon. direct the disarming of both strikers and mine guards, or der the dosing of saloons In the dis trict and the enforcement of the or der ngninst the importation of strike breakers, prohibit the Intrusion upon company property or all except com j pnny workers They direct the pres crvatiOn of law and order and the! protection of life and property The ordering out of the milltiu came after n series of conferences that be gan at S o'c lock Monday morulng Tbe strike leaders had yielded severnl points and the prospects for a peaceful peace-ful settlement of the strike look' i good w hen the outbreak of violence was reported to the governor Outbreak of Violence. The first conferences had hardly begun before word reached the governor gov-ernor that a hundred deputies had fired upon the tent colony of the strikers stri-kers at Ludlow and that the strikers replying with shots had i aus'd the retreat of a trainload of guards proceeding pro-ceeding to the Tabasco mine, said to bo besieged by the Btrlkers The report re-port that the deputies had fired first was later denied Late In tbe afternoon after-noon a party of guards proceeding across the hills to tbe relief of the Tabasco oiliu- was attacked by strikers near Berwind aud in tbe ensuing e chauge of shots, it was reported thai two strikers were killed and flvo were wounded. A report that tl).' strikers had captured seven mine guards could not be confirmed, lu. it admitted th; strikers had t - keu possession of a Colorado and Southeastern switch engine. Tiie latest outbreak reported aft i tbe governor had decided to order out the troops, was the dynamiting of the raliroad bridge at Barnes Trinidad. Colo.. Oct 2S. In a bat tie which Is believed to have started at 5:30 o'clock this morning between approximately 1300 strikers and pos- sibl :: mine guards In the cam;'.- ai I Hastlm: Delugua. Tob.T o and I wind, one mine guard and three strikers stri-kers are said to have been killed Greeks Will Fight. Denver, coio Oct 28. Telephone advices from sheriff .1 s Grlshan at Trinidad to the governor's offic? this morning state that n larKe force : of Greek strikers staried at H o clock this morning for the coal camps at I Tobasco, Berwind, Hastings and Dei-I Dei-I agua, announcing that they would at- tempt to take the camps and, if suc-I suc-I cessful, would hold them against the stato troops. Wage and Property Loss. Denver. Colo. Oct 28. While the ordering of state troops into the southern Colorado coal fields followed the failure of Governor Amnion's efforts ef-forts to arrange a settlement, an additional ad-ditional reason for this action was found today in the list of casualties and property damage that have marked mark-ed the 3S days of the strike. These strike incidents were summarized sum-marized today as follows. Battles and skirmishes. 18 Killed. 28. Wounded and injured. 41. Bj i Personal assaults, 0 Buildings and bridges wrecked or damaged by dynamite. U, Property loss (estimated). 850,000. Loss in wages (estimated), $2,500,- Trinldad, Oct 28. After three ( hours hot fighting between mine i guards and strikers In the canyons surrounding tbe mining properties at ! Delagua. Hastings Berwind and To-basco To-basco a lull in the battle was caueed j by lack of ammunition on the part . of the strikers and mine guard? One striker is known to have been ! rerlously Injured and conflicting re ports are received here concerning (he fatalities among the mine guard-". I One report has It that none was In- jured, and others say that fifteen mine guards were killed. Because of lack of wire communicitlon no ftoeuTate information relative to the mine guards casualties was available j to noon. |