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Show COAL MINERS WAR STILL CONTINUES Situation in Southern Colorado Most Critical Since Trinidad Trini-dad Strike Began. i i ELEVEN MORE KILLED i Large Bodies of Armed Men in Ugly Mood Union Reinforcements Re-inforcements Arriving. Trinidad. Colo., April 23. A longdistance long-distance telephone message from the Empire mine, where from 20 to 30 men, women and children have been imprisoned for 25 hours, said that a party of strikers approached the mine shortly before noon today and offered offer-ed the prisoners a chance to surrender surren-der and be conducted safely out of the strike district. Messagos received at the Colorado Fuel & Iron company offices from Rouse thnt Primrose was being dynamited. dy-namited. All of the inhabitants are believed to nave loft tho camp. Messages Mes-sages expressing fear of attack have been received from numerous camps in Huorfnno county. At Cameron all of the women and children in the cam) have been placed in the basement base-ment of the company store. ; A telephone message from the military mili-tary caihp at Ludlow to Tabasco stated that armed men wore entering enter-ing the canyon. E. N. Snyder, a union organizer who telephoned the message, said that all the- captives wore believed to be alive; although no signs of life had been observed during the morning. morn-ing. He said the last shots from the mine were fired about G o'clock last ovonlng. Snyder admitted that both entrances to the mine had been blocked by dynamite blasts, and that the fan w'as out of commission. He said there was no danger of suffocn-tlon, suffocn-tlon, however, and that a party of miners was on the way to rsecuo the prisoners. Trinidad, Colo.. April 23. With the toll of vestorday's fighting still unknown, un-known, three mining properties burn-ed burn-ed to tho ground, otXers reported destroyed, de-stroyed, the fate of thirty refugees of the Empire mine who took refuge In tho slope still In doubt and a rap-Idly rap-Idly increasing number of armed men still active,' the situation In. southern Colorado today was more critical than at any time during the strike. I Eleven arc said to have been kill-1 od yesterday in the fighting near Aguilar and a score arc reported missing. miss-ing. Property damage Is estimated at $200,000. The fate of Southwestern mine is unknown. No Relief In Sight. The time of the arrival of state troops is indefinite and there Is no Immediate prospects of relief from the conditions that have existed In the strike district since early Monday. Mon-day. Even the arrival of the statu troops may not serve to quell the disorders. dis-orders. Large bodies of armed men are reported neir the railroad approaches ap-proaches to the Aguilar district. They are said to be in an ugly mood. "Adjutant General Chase called me by long distance telephone today," to-day," declared John Lawson, international interna-tional board member of the United Mine Workers of America, "and told me he was coming here in "the interest in-terest of peace. 1 told him that there could be no peace where there was no justice." Armed Re-inforcemcnts Arriving. Twenty-five armed men left Wal-senburg Wal-senburg early today In the direction of Aguilar and Ludlow. Armed men from northern New Mexico are still coming into the district and a large force from Fremont county is said to be marching across Huerfano county. Large numbers from Trinidad arc reported re-ported to have joined the Ludlow strikers who have been entrenched in the Black hills northeast Ludlow since Monday night, i I Trinidad, Colo.. April 23. "If you have any help you can send, rush it to Reeuise immediately. Strikers I have big bunch and arc coming this way." This message was received at , the Trinidad offices of the Colorado , Fuel ft Iron company early today from Superintendent W. G. Deck. An earlier message said "Primrose superintendent sup-erintendent and last of his men arrived ar-rived stating strikers had just reached reach-ed Primrose and they got out ahead of them." AnollfeY large' body "of "armed men still is besieging the wrecked mining camp of the Southwestern Fuel company com-pany at Empire, according to a telephone tele-phone report from H. D. King early today just before the wires went down. The King family have been prisoners in their home since yesterday yester-day noon. The fate of J. W. Slpplc, president of the company who with 20 to 30 others including several women and children, were reported entombed in the mine stope was unknown. A re port from Aguilar to Major P. J. Ham-rock Ham-rock stated thnt the ontombed arc dead, the informant declaring the air had been cut off since yesterday. Desultory firing occurred during the forenoon at Ludlow. The main body of armed strikers was believed to bo in the vicinity of Rugby and Primrose. A small number of guards was prepared to resist any attack at Rouse. A large body of armed men was reported marching from Trinidd against the militia at Ludlow. Barbarous War at Trinidad. Kansas City, April 23. "Wc have a war In Colorado that transcends in barbarity any contest south of the Rio Grande," said John P. White, president of the United Mine Work-ors Work-ors of America here today. "We have civil war at home' ho continued. "It involves grcator and more clearly defined principles than the Mexican trouble. The fight being made for the recognition of the union un-ion will go on. Those miners are backed by our organization of nearly 500.000 members. "The United Mine Workers' union is supplying the strikers with funds, food and clothing, hut the union never nev-er has sent nor considered sending them a gun or cartridge. . I don't know where tlvoy obtained guns and ammunition." Washington, April 23. "Mother" Mary Jones, strike leader, today appeared ap-peared before the house nicies committee com-mittee and doscribed conditions in the strike district in the Colorado coal fields. "Mother" Jones said that "if she j were president," she would order the governor of Colorado to have the. imported im-ported gunmen, with their machine guns taken out of the district. Conditions Condi-tions In Colorado, she said, had led to "government by gunmen." Denver, April 23. Reports that some of the Denver militia had mutinied muti-nied because of failure to receivo back pay wero denied positively by Adjutant William S. Snapgler. who added that this question would be considered at the adjutant general's office today. A telegram, received today from Governor Amnions, approved the action ac-tion of- Llcutcnnnt Governor Fitzgerald Fitz-gerald In deciding to call a special session of the state legislature to finance fi-nance the militia expenses. It asked that the proclamation not be issued until Amnions' arrival here tomorrow night. Two companies of infantry reached reach-ed here from Boulder anil Longmont today and with a Denver contingent It was expected that 150 would bo on their way to Trinidad within a few hours. The Colorado, Springs company com-pany left at noon for Trinidad. The departure of two troops pf cavalry from Denver" as reported last night, was delayed until today. i |