SHUT UP IN A MINE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2132, 25 April 1914, Page 5

SHUT UP IN A MINE

AWFUL PLIGHT OF WOMEN AND

CHILDREN

DANGER OP SUFFOCATION

TERRIBLE STRIKE WAR

By Telegraph—Press Association;—ConytficJH Now York, April 23. A.mino ma-nago-r aear Aguilar, Colorado, in the vicinity of the recent sanguinary conflict between Stats troops and armed strikers, has telephoned that thirty women and children who had taken refuge in a stope in tl» Empire Mino were l-iIM-iy to die of suifocatian, as the mine mouth had ten caved in by dynamite explosions caused by the strikers in. their attacks an. the State troops. Trinidad (Colorado), April 23. Th<* women and children heliwod to havo been suffocated to the Empire mine are known to bo still alive. The strikers are firing rifles and usir.g dynamite, as e-taiside-rablo'numbers of non-unionists are using the tnino as a place eS refuge. Conflicts With troops and are still proceeding over a wide area, and further fatalities aro occurring. ■five strikers aro thoroughly out of hand, and the troops aro able to effect little. The sober elements of tho -community aro appealing for tho President::'! intervention, ns it is reported that tho conditions are equal to a state of civil war.

HAIL OF LEAD FROM TEE STRIKERS. (Res, April 2-1, 9.30 p.m.) Now York, April 23. Reports from Trinidad (Colorado) state that tho mflb mvtragfes in_ tho strike district continue. Twenty inkers, with their wires tiiid children, toes rsfngo iu another wine. _ Aftor tho miiiii buildings had been fired, the strikers poured in a hail of lead as the iio:>strikers fled. Tho death list since iho.isfeting began totals 30, including children.