STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12221, 24 April 1914, Page 5

STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA.

TROOPS USF, MACHINE GUNS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUFFER. [Br Electric Teleorafk —Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received April 22, at 9.35 p.m. New York. -April 22. The bodies of eleven children, two women and one man were found in the ruins of the tents at Trinidad (Colorado). A number of men and women aro reported to be entombed jn the burning mine. An army of 400 strikers is facing a, largo force of State militia, and further bloodshed is expected. There is intense excitement around

tho district. The strikers are largely aliens, and .•ire determined to fight to a finish. Received April -21, at S.K) a.m. New York. April 23. The mine manager at New Agnillar (Colorado) lias telephoned that thirty women and children who took refuge in the mines at Tope are likely to die of suffocation, as the mine mouth was caved in by dynamite explosions caused by the strikers in their .attacks on the State troops. Received April 24. at 1.20 p.m. New York, April 23. The women and ■children believed to have been suffocated in the Empire Mine, Trinidad (Colorado), are known to be still alive. The strikers blew up the mouth of the mine with dynamite, as a considerable number o-r non-unionists were using the mine as a refuge. Conflicts with the troops and nonstrikers are still proceeding over a wide area, and further fatalities are occurring. The strikers are thoroughly out of hand and troops are able to effect little. The sober elements in the community are appealing for Presidential intervention, as it is reported that the condition is equal to civil war.