The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1914, Page 1

candidates. MORE THAN 45,00 contribution, and the Chilberg contribution. PAID COPIES DAILY WAR IN COLORADO! WOMEN AND BABIES. VOLLEYS FIRED IN STREETS Militiamen, ~ With Machine Guns, Attack Strikers in Mine They Captured. 9 KILLED IN BATTLE Armed Engagements on To- day at Several Points in Coal Fields. TRINIDAD, Colo., April 28— Two hundred militiamen, with @ machine gun mounted on a ridge west of Walsenburg to day, were sweeping the McNal- ly mine, captured last night by miners, with a terrific fire. A number of persons are report- ed dead, including three mine guards and five strikers Lacal officials of the United Mine Workers of America declared 50 militiamen tried to charge the MeNally mine, but were repulsed Fire Volleys in Street Telephoning to authorities here, T. M. Hudson, clerk of the district court at Walsenburg, asserted the militia and mine guards had train- ed a machine gun on Walseaburg itself and were sending volley after Yolley down the town’s main street. He said he heard three miners “had Been Kite "~~ ‘error-Stricken wi killed at the Walsenbdurg depot,” said Hudson. “His killing was said to be un- called for, as the depot is a long way from the mines. “The people of Walsenburg are terror-stricken. Women and chil- dren have sought safety in cellars and closets. The situation is crit- teal.” Both Sides Shift Blame Reports regarding the trouble differ. Strikers say the battle was pre- cipitated when McNally mine guards fired on an automobile con- taining four strikers. Union leaders also denied that the miners had fired any buildings, explaining that an explosion of oil started a fire which destroyed sev- era! frame houses. Operators assert, however, that the strikers first dynamited and then fired the batidings. - 260 MINERS ENTOMBED! ECCLES, W. Va., April 28.—Two hundred and sixty men were en- tombed in a coal mine near hi today by an explosion. It is not yet known how man; were killed. AVIATOR KILLED LONG BEACH, Cal, Chas. C. Royston, aviator from Los Angeles to San Diego, fel) at Dominguez this morning, a dis-| tance of 800 feet. He was picked up unconscious and died just as ae was taken into the sanitarium at Long Beach. MRS. LAMB GOT POOR BARGAIN | “He owed me for five years’ board when I married him on September 27, 1911," said Mrs. Augusta J Lamb in divorce suit against Her bert Lamb yesterday afternoon bought him a new suit and got him a Job on a San Francisco boat, but | he quit as soon as we were married.” Mrs. Lamb was granted a decree by Jude Judge Dykeman. April 28.— VOLUME Typical Group of Children Massacred in the Tent Colony at Ludiow ne 16, jockeying in the city council, in an attempt to elect But the name of John L. McLean has now appeared among the Yes, the same John L. McLean who was manager of the Trenholme mayoralty campaign, who held the bag for the slush fund, the existence of which was uncovered by The Star's investigating committee; the same John L. McLean who dug up the Jacob Furth contribution, and the breweries’ Two members of the council have pledged him their FAIR TONIGHT AND he Seattle Star WEDNESDAY; | LIGHT FROST LOOK WHAT OUR COUNCILMEN ARE TRYING TO SLIP OVER! 7s STAR has had little to say during all thi a successor to John G. Peirce. votes, Lean. TONIGHT; LIGHT WES STERLY BREEZE THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. 54 (PROPOSES GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF ROCKEFELLER’S COLORADO MINES WASHINGTON, April 28.—Government ownership and operation of || John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado mines was proposed in a bill introduced in |] the house today by Congressman Bryan of Washington. Rockefeller’s Murderers ARMY OF STRIKING MINERS IN FRENZY By Edward A. Evans (Staff Special Correspondent of The Star.) TRINIDAD, Colo. April WEEK A THOUSAND MEN MAY BE DEAD IN THESE} HILLS: Bitter, bloody, desperate civil war is on in this coal sibel Nothing I can say is strong enough to describe ing district. the situation. Thousands of Ithe MASSACRE AT LUDLOW OF striking coal miners are in a THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN They listen to no reason frenzy ov words of coun- sel, conciliation and peace are worse than useless “REMEMBER LUDLOW!” IS THE SHRIEK HEARD | flying | FROM HILL TO HILL. Nothing can save terrible bloodshed but United ness troops, in my opinion Hundreds, perhaps thousands, “1|Governor Ammons call for federal troops. five minutes to decide. F ORDERU.S. TROOPS . TO STRIKE SCENE WASHINGTON, April 28.— Following a prolonged confer. ence with Secretary Garrison, President Wilson today ordered six troops of U. &. cavairy from Ft. Russell, Cheyenne, Into the Colorado mine strike zone to order. At the same time that the | troops arrive a proctamation, which has already been tele graphed to Colorado will be published, calling on all dis turbers to lay down their arms and go home. It will be in effect, a reading of the riot act by the federal t and the cavalry nt to enforce it. of the striking coal miners jare men who have fought on desperate battlefields in the | Balkans and Mexico. These men, Greeks, Bulgarians, Rou- uians and Mexicans, are VETERAN SOLDIERS, CALM] THE FACE OF FIRE, UNDERSTANDING FIR ARMS, AND ARE REASONABLY GOOD SHOTS AT) LONG DISTANCES It will be seen that raw militia has a foe of seasoned experience, well armed and supplied with dynamite. They} jeven have machine guns, I am told Five thousand Colorado women have demanded that They gave him He sent the request to Washington. SAY FAREWELLS: | A striking tribute of respect and | appreciation was paid last night to | Dr. Van Horn of Plymouth Congre gational church as scores of people from his own and other congrega tions gathered in a farewell meet ing to wish bim well in his new field in Oakland, Cal ARMY IS BALKY LONDON, April 28.—That army officers had balked again when called on to serve in Ulster to pre- vent distribution of arms wa. serted today by the London Bven. ing News, 28—IN LESS THAN A) SEATTLY, ENTER HARBOR | BY BERNARD RUCKER | | VERA CRUZ, April 28— Gen, Funston's troops were or- dered to land from their trans porte outside the harbor to re lieve the biuejackets on shore duty. When Funston'’s transports en- tered the {nner harbor the Amert- cans on shore cheered. What was more significant was that a crowd of about 1,000 Mexicans also} TOO BAD! TOO BAD! WHAT '| WILL THEY DRINK NOW? } SAN DIEGO, April 28.— The first genuine catastro- phe to one of Uncie Sam's fighting craft on the Pacific since the Mexican trou ble began was reported today from the cruiser Cleveland, speeding south- ward from this port. Two large or: juice taken sult of Seer recent order a for the officers fell in some | way. The bottles were | smashed. cheered enthusiastically i Ag the ships plane ascended from the sipp! and circled the harbor Missin. | REBEL CHIEFS CONFER WASHINGTON, April 28.—The | j administration is deeply concerned over the rebels’ attitude. If a break should occur between Carran- | za and Villa at their conference at | Chih ahua today, it is thought} kely the form and his followers | will go entire! over to Huerta which might be expected to make the dictator more stubborn in his} | negotiations. MEDIATOR PESSIMISTIC | WASHINGTON, April 28.—It was learned today that one of the | What they hope is that the federal troops will stop civil ot mediators of Ca prierionn Z ¢ sd J 3 im. | Mexican dispute regards a settle | war and give time to make Rockefeller and the coal com-|iioht aw hopeless, _panies settle RETURNS CHILD Explaining that she had taken 4year-old Kermit Sinnett to the home of a friend for 4 visit, Mrs. Chapman, nurse for the little son of Mr. and Mrs, L, A. Sinnett, 112 Firat av, &, returned with the boy last night after the police had seached the city since Saturday. The nurse was “fired.” Sir George, Doughty, 68, liberal unionist member of parliament, died in London yesterday notice running serves caught Premier Asquith that all persons guns into Ulster wil! be severely | will be allowed to leave the dealt with by government. * WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 28, i914. militiamen say. NE CE) SLAUGHTERED By Edward A. Evans (CORRESPONDENT OF THE STAR) TRINIDAD, Colo., April 28.—The strikers started all this. trouble in Colorado, the Strikers declare they were peaceable until the militia, recruited from the gun- |men of the cities, and paid by the mine operators, began to shoot and kill. But it is conceded by all that it wasn’t until the bodies of 11 little children and two women — were taken out of the hellish death cellar at Ludlow that the miners saw red—that they were — iseized with this all consuming desire for blood vengeance. Eleven children and two women, MURDERED BY JOHN dD. IGUN MEN! ter reviston fearful peeve on today al o pay the expenses of framing up a \y entered an aero-}and Marble voted for it There is talk that more will come over. Get that fixed in your minds, gentlemen of the council. McLean has proved that when he wants anything he goes to the “big interests” to get it. McLean’s interests are not those of the people, and HE WON’T DO. THE NEW COUNCILMAN MUST BE A MAN WHO WILL THINK OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHEN HE CASTS HIS VOTE ON IMPORTANT MEASURES. The 313,000 people of Seattle won’t stand for Me- NIGHT EDITION on New ROCK EFELLER'S 1 personally helped to take from one of the death traps at the THE COLORADO SITUATION OR a year thousands of wnder-fed miners in Colorado have been on «trike for a Hving wage, tolerable working conditions and recognition of their union, Properties affected are mines of the Colorado Iron and Fuel Co., controlled by the John D. Rockefeller interests. To insure homes for themselves and families during the struggle, miners in the Ladlow district, the storm center, leased & tract of jand, not company property, and established a tent city, _ Sem and gunmen, ed in the field by the he-gppear to contro! cal Machinery of the a7 raked the! Ladiow tent city with a deadly fire, knowing only Women and children were there, and killed many ~Miners fought foree with force, armed themselves and destroyed company property Congressional investigation started. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ie orted to have said he will spend every dollar of his fortune rather than give in. He disclaims personal responst- bility for state of elvil war President Wilson, through Chairman Foster of the house committee on mining, voices personal plea to John D. Rocke- feller to end strike through arbitration. ~Rockefeller flatly rejects all offers of arbitration, but Foster was expected to confer with J. ©, Osgood, another of the largest Colorado mine owners, at New York, before returning to Washington. Louisville, LaFayette and Marshall, three towns in the northern Colorado coal fields, reported attacked by miners with machine guns, Battles in progress at other pointe. —Two hundred milittamén, commanded by Adjt. Gen. Chase, encamped at Ludlow, 15 miles north of Trinidad. Strikers erect- ing new tent colony under supervision of “Mother” Jones. ~ COUNCIL HITS AT | destroyed tent colony at Ludiow THE CHARRED AND MUTILATED BODIES. ; | These bodies had been the wives and babies of striking miners who, escaping to the hills from the Rockefeller gunmen, had left thelr only treasures behind, naturally expecting that they would be immune — from RIFLE BULLET, MACHINE GUN AND RAVAGING TORCH. | Although I had been deported earlier in the day by Major Halw |commanding the “Lefty Louies” and “Gyp the Bloods” in uniforms, ventured back under the protection of the Red Cross fiag. | In the death hole we found the bodies, heaped together. Mrs, Charles Costa and her two children, Mra. 8. Chavez and four children and the three children of Mrs. Mary Petrucci and two of Mrs, Angelina Petragon were dead there. y Mrs, Petrucci and. Mrs. Petragon had escaped. mee The death cellar ts a perpendicular shaft ten feet deep, with Be steps carved in the earth sides, and at the bottom a room, six ¥: | Square and three feet high, hollowed out. { None of the children were more than 11 years old. THERE Wi ONE 2 MONTHS’ OLD BABY AND ANOTHER A YEAR OLD. thands and arms of these little ones were scarred and burned to |bone. Mute testimony to their struggie to escape suffocation. THESE BABIES HAD REACHED UP WITH THEIR Ti | HANDS, TRIEO TO PULL THEMSELVES OUT OF THE CE | BY GRASPING THE BLAZING BOARDS, AND HAD FALLEN |INTO THE HOLE TO DIE. } We drew the 13 corpses out, handling them as gently as we co jand piled them up in two death wagons, which the gunmen finally | permitted to approach the ruined colony. The body of Charles Costa, whose wife and two children d! in the cellar, was brought in from a hillside, a quarter of a mile away, and so the death wagons brought a GREWSOME LOAD OF 14 BODIES | — ‘Into the little morgue in Trinidad. | We Red Cross people had two autos. John McLennan, district | | president of the United Mine Workers, rode in the first car and car ried the flag. | In the party were Rev. J. A. Faris, Episcopal rector, Rev. Rane |dolph Cook, Christian church minister, and six brave Trinidad |—Mrs. Pearl Jolly, Mrs. James Bradshaw, Mrs. James Lannigan, og L. Walker, Mrs. E. Ryan and Mrs. G. W. Stonecipher. Coming through Fa lines of the gunmen, | pulled my cap coat | over my face and got through without being recognized. The scene as we raised those little bodies out of that hell hole if | most affecting i The well-dressed women of our party sank to the ground and wept | bitterly. % The men, as they carried up the tiny charred corpses, sobbed shook with emotion that almost palsied them. The two men of G ATTEMPTED PRAYER, BUT THE WORDS FROZE ON THEIR LIPS A band of the big city gunmen stood around while we were | | work and they GRINNED AT THE MEN WHO WERE WEAK ENO The binky dink folk of our char-| commission The council yesterday refused to How them $460 additfonal, on top f $500 already appropriated, to in the opposite Counetlman reason | to add any more money.” direction,” Erickson. For Bathhouse John” cbarter for Se-| “All we've gotten ont of this is ttle. glory and now we'll have to dig Erickson, Hesketh and Lundy|down in our own pockets and pay ‘oted against the extra expense. | the bills,” yell the charter framers Fitzgerald, Haas, Dale, Goddard! They are about ready to spring thetr finished charter “When this question was up bde- have a/ fore the people they voted in favor | happily, the scene is one of desolation jof commission form of government |The commission has gone directly | said that | tWo of these dogs were wantonly shot, the gunmen laughing loudly ag ynldn't see my way cle ar) | TO SOB OUT LOUD. At Ludlow, where less than a week ago 818 strikers were vi Smoke was stil! curling some of the tents, and a few disconsolate, singed chickens picked ab the streets of the deserted tent village, 2 Camp curs fled before the militiamen, and while we were there | they saw the curs fall dead. . ete s 6 We heard shooting on the low hills east of the colony, and saw an automobile speeding along toward Trinidad. One of the gunmen with — us raised his field glasses, . “That car is flying a white flag,” he said, That doesn't make any difference,” said another Shoot the ——, anyway.’ STATE CALLS FOR'BIG SHIPMENTS NO AMERICANS WASHINGTON, April 28.—The| Attorney Frank Olsen, with of-| Hamilton stronghold, out of a pos-| The motion was filed by Van- Brazilian minister at Mexico City tices in the Lyon building, loomed | sible 61 derveer & Cummings, attor- notified Secretary Bryan today! i. in the lead In the race Circulators were generally met! neys for Hamilton, in spite of that not a single American had |“! ead in the race for the! with the glad hand, the only per-| the fact both sides had agreed been slain there, none was endan-|¢ity council vacancy this morning | sons flatly refusing to sign being| to abide by the decision of the ed, and only one arrest had when he récelved four votes. Fitz-| those directly interested in road| jury. The jury found Hamilton been made. gerald, Hesketh, Goddard and| Work, or those who signed the| was directly or indirectly in- “TL have full assurances,” added | trans voted for him. J. L. Mel | sham resolutions endorsing: Hamil-| terested in the gale ofthe ma- the minister “that all foreigners; 80® Yoke’ | AP ye meso cost chine for $3,000 fo King county, elty, and C. J France still remained inj farmers expressed them-| Judge Mackintosh will aoaounce whenever they please,” the runoingy VOLUNTEERS TO OF ARMS MADE FIGHT STRIKERS 10 COAL FIELDS anual R. BE. Levers said in Trinidad Wednesday night. DENVER, April 28—Gov. | prersnunc April 28.—"That Ammons has issued a call for |two large shipments of arms and militia volunteers. j ammunition had been sent within He declared martial law in | the past four Boulder county and ordered /|ton, W. Va. to the Colorado coal 100 troops there from Canon | fields was reported here today City. The soldiers left on a It Was said that on Saturday the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co. special train at 9 a. m. The governor had heard that Sheriff Buster and a posse of Felts 18,000 cartric | | | consigned to “H | | day a machine gun and 16,006 deputies and mine quarde were | ounds of ammunition ‘were ship.| Five hundred names were at-jend the ring rule of Hamilton and» te) a |ped to “H. W, Krebs.” tached to recall petitions for Ham-| Knudsen and in danger of extermination. KILLED, HE SAYS t days from Charles- Trinidad, ges, and that on Mon OLSEN IS IN LEAD They began firing at the car and suddenly gun sing out “Brrr.” The automobile passed out of sight, nts were R. E. Levers, Roland Levers, Mrs. Roland Levers and | Miss Wava citizens of Roswell, N. M., driving in their ear from Rockyford, to Roswell and unaware of any strike trouble, The uniformed gunmen did not stop to find who was in the auto: © mobile, but TRAINED THEIR RIFLES AND MACHINE GUN ON THE _ YOUNG WOMEN IN IT. The top of the car was riddled with the bullets and the wind shield was broken, but the occupants were 7 scratched “I'm glad I live in New Mexico and not BLOODY COLORADO," we heard a machifie but later T learned that its 00 FARMERS SIGN AMILTON RECALL | Attorneys Meade and Vander. iiton and Knudsen received from) or cil argue the Coell Upper: Enumclaw at headquarters this} Late Hamilton county ambulanes!: morning, Seven petitions were/case before Judge Mackintosh Sat on the motion for a filed by circulated and there were 58 sign-| Uday, new ers in Birch precinct, a supposed | trial, the defense, selves as united in their efforts to | his judgment after argument, ¢