DEATH AND DISASTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 9

DEATH AND DISASTER.

IX STREETS OF LTJULOW

STRIKE-RIDDEN ZONE

TRINIDAD (Colorado) April 25. Late messages received at the local Colorado Fuel and Iron offices from Rouse' state that Primrose is being dynamited. All of the inhabitants 'are bebelievcd to have left the camp. Twelv* women and a number of children and five men from the Brokenhead and Royal mines are said to have fled to th» Arnold ranch, near the Spanish Peaku. Arnold arrived at Rouse this morning, and reported that the refugees had arrived during the night. Messages expressing fear of attack have been received from numerous camps in Huefaano County. At Cameron all of the women and children in the camp have been placed in the basement of the company store.

The force of guards at Rouse haU been increased,, and it i9 now stated that 100 armed men are in the camp. A telephone message from the military camp at Ludlow to Tabasco stated that armed men were entering the canyon. Hundreds of strikers in Trinidad this morning gathered at the morgue j where twenty-five bodies of those who i lo£* their lives in the Ludlow battle and fire were laid. A long procession ' of [men and women followed "the convevnnces which borf* -th* bodies f r om th« ;m<ir<rne to a local hall, where they will lie in state. One funeral was held this morning. Rev. J. O. Ferris and Bev. Randolph Cook, who were members of the' pajrtv whhh yesterday recovered the bodies nf tho I/ndlow: victims, have sent a lonff menage to President Wilson urspng +Ht he give conditions in Southern Colorado his immediate personal attention. FATE OF THIRTY UNKNOWN. The fate of J. W. Sipple,' president of the company, who twenty to thirty owners, including several • women and children, were reported entombed in, the mine stope, was unknown. A report from Aguilar to Major P. J. Hamrock stated that the entombed are- dead, tiie informant declaring the air had be»n cut off since yesterday. Property damage is estimated' at 200,000 dollars. The fate of the Southwestern mine is unknown.

The time of the arrival of state troops is indefinite and there is no immediate prospect of relief, from the conditions that have existed' in the strike district since early Monday. Even. the arrival of , the state troops may not serve to. quell ; the disorders.. Large bodies of armed men are reported near the railroad approaches to the Aguilar district an* reports from these points state that the attack may be made upon the National Guardsmen. NO PEACE IN SIGHT. "Adjutant General, Chase called on the; long distance telephone .this morning," declared John Lawson, International Board member of the United Workers of America. "He told me hi was coming here in the interests of peace.; I told him that there could b« no peace where there was no justice." Twenty-five armed men left Walaenburg early to-day in the direction of Aguilar\aJid Ludlow. Armed men from northern New Mexico axe still coming into the district,. and a large force from Huerfano county. Large numbers from Trinidad early to-day are reported to have joined the Ludlovr strikers who have been entrenched in the Black Hill« north-east of Ludlow, since Monday night.

TRINIDAD, April 24.

Fifteen hundred silent, grim visaged men. sobbing women ,and awe-stricken children crowded in front of the Holy Trinity Church to-day while open air funeral services were held for four victims, of the Ludlow fire. Two heavy trupks draped in. black conveyed th* flower-Jaden caskets from the morgue to the church arid Catholic cemetery/ ■ town of 2000 population, is ( depopulated to-day. Terrorised by the events of tfte past four days, during which the strikers' colony at Ludlow was wiped Aguilar, normally a thriving mining out. in a battle between strikers «n.d ■w+Htia, and "the mining camps' of "Errinire, Southwestern, Bordhead and i Royal were wrecked or burned, -the citizens have fled in all directions. Tha train which reached Trinidad last night from Lynn, the nearest railroad station, vas jammed with refugees from , the centre of, the disturbed district. Many families also have fled to neighboring ranches and other towns out of the strike zone?. The town's water supplyis cut off by the 'destruction of tn'n pumping plant, which also supplied the camns at Hastings, Delagua and .Berwind. i , ■ . " '-.-. ■ ' ■ . ■■■'■ Similar • conditions exist in probably all mining camps in Huer'fano and Las Animas countv.

TRINIDAD, April 21.

Three women and a number of ehlldren,; possibly -ten, were smothered t» death in a fire that swept the Ludloir; tent colony last night according to a statement piven out at union headquarters. The party had taken refuge In a cave. The statement is confirmed at the military camp at LudloV. Thirteen others were also beliered t» be deed, and at least six identified e« thf> battlefield when the sun > come tip. Daylight revealed a. scene of desolation in and about Tmdlow. Onlv one tent remains standing onfc . of 200 or more which for six months ha,vd neen the home of several hundred strikers and their families. 'Husbands were separated from wives, and mothers lost their children last nierht in the mad rush for safety that followed the firing of the tents. .

Frightened women and ■children today were massed about, the Lndlow station, while milit.i.nTnen natrnlled the railroad tracks, and the -Vicinity about thVto\y-n and colony. <

Searching parties are qoinpr over the pround of yesterday's battle looking for tlrx bodies of victims. j No trace of large bndies of ftrmed strikers who lant night, w*r<v. reported to be rushine: to tlwaid of th* LtKHow striker" wns seen this morning. Thev are believed to be in the hills west *>*<& forth of T/udlow. hvt, the rrr^n.i>» are beli<>ved to be sr> brhVen tip |K%fc no «oneetitrat^rl rittnrk r^H "cm mad 0 . Sevor.nl th on sand rrvnnrU/of rift> ammunition trpro exploded lawt ni^ht i» thn. fi r« that destrrvv«vl the +»T»t4j." Th« -werp c+orpd in tM tert of John ' JiVLvrftnn. Colorado mi»^li*r nf f.Ttw n^ttonnl f^'^cii^vo li^ofd XliTii*»'«' Miw*» reports. Frank Snvrlor Trf'« Vilkd in, +ho fppts v^stprday in art effect to mro -hi?? -boW-' suiter, wK rmnotiVod, Tisd Qf.vn.T»->Vilprl out. of thei trench in which tho family ha<t tn.ken refuse.

Mn-ior TTimrocic sajd th** fi«liHng w»* T>rpciT>i t ntpf' bv fl nvwvd of Oriole "tj" 1 *- p.r.<? ilnder Loriq. TSV-i*. . W 1 ™* ormned ***•«» nrion a deti^^nnnt of hi<» men -whilft f lipv vo'"" ririlb'Ti"' nrar th n mil'tarr oar"n. nnd in sicjht of +"he tpn* colottv.

hnrl ovrlerod Tits* t* relpase .->. striker. vrhn, 't waa ch'Ttypcl, \ras desirous of returning to work.