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Show MORE TROOPS ARE SENT TOJUDLOW Bead Strikers Lying Along Railroad Tracks Great Excitement Ex-citement Prevails. ALL WIRES CUT DOWN Additional Supplies Sent to 175 Militia Who Are Facing Fac-ing 400 to 700 Enraged Miners. Trinidad, Colo., April 21. Three women and a number of children, possibly ten, wero smothered to death in the fire that swept the Ludlow tent colony last night, according to a statement given out at unlou headquarters. head-quarters. Tho party had taken refuge in a cave. The statement is confirmed con-firmed at the military camp at Ludlow.1 Lud-low.1 The discovery of the bodies will raise the number of victims to 20 or moro. A majority of them were women and children. Strikers who escaped from the tents last night reported to union headquarters headquar-ters today that Mrs. R. H, Jolly, the leader of the women strikers at Lud low, Is among those killed. Her thrce-months-old baby was with her yesterday. Trinidad, Colo., April 21. Hundreds of armed strikers who yesterday battled bat-tled fourteen hours with state troops in the Ludlow district had disappeared this morning, and quiet prevailed in and about the strikers' demolished tent colony. The one hundred militiamen who opposed tho strikers this morning were in possession of the railroad tracks from tho steel brldgo to a point north and west of the burned colony. Reinforcements from Lamar nnd Wal-sonburg Wal-sonburg today swelled the number of soldiers on the ground to 1C0. The list or identified dead was swelled to six and it seemed certain that at least as many more fell In yesterday's fighting. The Identified Dead. A. MARTIN, private, company A, First regiment, Denver. LOUIS TIICAS, leader of the Greek strikers, Ludlow colony. EDWARD FYLER, secretary of the ' Ludlow local union. CHARLES COSTA, Agullar, union lender. FRANK SNYDER, aged 12. PREMO LARSIE, IS, Trinidad, killed by stray bullet. An unconfirmed rumor stated that 1 - two small children were smothored to death in. the blaze that razed the colony at 0 o'clock last night and the bodies of other strikers arc said to be still lying on yesterday's field ol battle. Trinidad, April 21. Twenty or more were believed to be dead and the number of wounded was unknown when day dawned on the Ludlow battlefield bat-tlefield where yesterday 100 militiamen militia-men and sheriff deputies fought a sanguinary battle with strikers. Throughout the night, bodies of strikers, heavily armed, moved from various coal camp3 toward Ludlow and a renewal oT the conflict was expected momentarily. Eighty-seven militiamen from Lama and Walsen-burg, Walsen-burg, ordered out last night by General Gen-eral John Chase, reached the scene of conflict during the forenoon. The known dead: PRIVATE A. MARTIN, Company A, D6nver. LOUIS TIKAS, Greek strike leader. Wounded: Private Lewis Purcell, Colorado Springs, condition improved. The Ludlow tent colony presented a scene of death and desolation today, to-day, only .four or five of the tents remaining re-maining standing. Soldiers declare that quantities of ammunition were exploded by the blaze that swept tho tent colony during the night. An unidentified man driving a horse attached to a light buggy, dashed from the tents waving a white flag, just after the fire started. When ordered to halt he is said to have opened fire with a revolver and was killed by a return volley from the militia. mi-litia. Dead Strikers Beside Tracks. Yesterday's battle centered about the big trestle of the Coiorado & Southeastern railway, and several I dead were said to be lying along the tracks behind which the strikers had taken refuge. Throughout the day and intermittently intermit-tently during the night, the fighting raged over an area of approximately three square miles, bounded on the west by Berwind and Hastings, on the east by Barnes station, on the north by the Ludlow tent colouy, and on the south by Rameyvllle. The battlefield was completely Isolated by the cutting of telegraph and telephone wires. Relief Expedition Organized. The fighting began early yesterday when a militia detachment under Lieutenant Lindcrfelr started to investigate in-vestigate the cause of firing near Cedar Ce-dar Hill. As the day progressed word of the clash reached officials and a relief expedition consisting ot ' 50 members of the newly organized Trinidad militia company "was sent to the scene on a special train manned by J. H. Abrams. superintendent of tho Colorado &. Southeastern, with Master Mechanic Roach as engineer, and Dispatcher Willis as fireman. The detarined south of Ludlow and came up on the strikers barricaded in the pumping station. As dusk closed In on the field of carnage the strikers retreated along a gully back of the blazing tent colony, followed by the militia, who swept the valley with machine guns. Denver Asked for Supplies. Major P. J. Hamrock ;spent the night strengthening the position of his men. A request was sent to Denver Den-ver for additional supplies of ammunition. ammu-nition. With the arrival of the Walscnburg and . Lama militia today, Major Ham-rock Ham-rock had approximately 175 men opposed op-posed to strikers, variously estima ted at between 400 and 700. Daylight revealed a scene of desolation desola-tion In nnd about Ludlow. Only one tent remains standing out of 200 or more, which for six months have been the home of several hundred strikers and their families. Husbands wero soparated from wives and mothers lost their children last night, in the mad rush for safety that followed the firing of the tents. Frightened women and children today to-day wero massed about the Ludlow station, whllo militiamen patrolled tho railroad tracks and tho vicinity about tho town nnd colony. Searching Parties Out. Searching parties are going over the ground of yesterday's battle looking for the bodies of victims. No trace of large bodies of armed strikers who last night were reporteu to be rushing to the aid of the Ludlow strikers was seen this morning. They are believed to be in the hills west and north of Ludlow, but the groups are believed to be so broken up that no concentrated attack will be made. Several thousand rounds of rifle ammunition am-munition were exploded last night in the fire that destroyed the tents. The explosive was stored in the tent of John Lawson, Colorado member of tho national executive board, Unlten Mine Workers, according to the military mili-tary reports. Frank Snyder was killed in the tents late yesterday in an effort to save bis baby sister, who, unnoticed, had scrambled out tho trench in which the family had taken refuge and was toddling along tho line of flro. Tho boy had overtaken the child and had just succeeded in rushing the little girl back into the trench when he was hit by a rifle shot. Major Hamrock in a statement this morning declared that the fighting yesterday was precipitated by a crowd of Greek strikers under Lou'b Tikas who oponed fire upon a detachment de-tachment of his men while they wero drilling near tho military camp and insight in-sight of tho tent colony. Earlier in the day. Major Hamrock had ordered Tllcas to release a striker who it was charged, was desirous of returning to work. |