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frffUfii NOON EDITION " , NOON EDITION? AMERICAN SHOPS LOOTED AT MEXICO CITY- BODIES OF MEXICAN DEAD BEING .BURNED i i U.S. AEROPLANES READY TO DO DUTY. ' Entry as Second-class Matter Applied For. " THE DAY BOOK! An Adless Daily Newspaper. " Daily Except Sunday. N. D. Cochran, ga& Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher, 'alllsP Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, $6 a Year VOL. 3, NO. 176 Chicago, Friday, April 24, 1914 ONE CENT WOMEN CRIED TO GOD TO SAVE IES FROM BLOOD-MAD BRUTES Dreadful Story of Massacre of Women and Children a$ Ludlow, Col.,' Told By an Eye-Witness; Gunmen . Hailed Bullets Into Tents in Which They Knew None But Women and Children Remained. "' & Trinidad, Col., April 24. In the r ashes jot the Ludlow tent cplony of jJP the miners' union, where j18 human fr " being lived iappily, though,, half- '- 4 starved, lie the charred and bullet-rid- ' den bodies of more than 25 women . and children! j"1 T They were massacred by gunmen, , $. wearing the'iiniforms of the Colorado r- state militia, but in the employ of T- John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel In and Iron Company, and using ma- V. chine guns which were brought to rr Coloradb by the coal operators for Just that purpose. Mrs. Marcelinl Pedrigon, a Mexican woman, saw her two babies suffq? cate in the ruins of her tent-homo and Mrs. Frank Snyder mourns fo,r "William, her oldest son eleven, whp ventured out of his father's "safety cellar" to "get a drink for his famish ing brothers and sisters, and fell dead, a child hero, with his head torn away by an explosive bullet. Mrs. Snyder told a vivid story oi the day of deadly terror and the night of horror that, followed when a hundred women with twice as manj little children faced first the bullejs oj