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LOOK WHAT OUR COUNCILMEN ARE TRYING TO SLIP OVER!
rpHE STAR has had little to say during all this jockeying in the city council, in an attempt to elect
a successor to John G. Peirce. But the name of John L. McLean has now appeared among the
candidates. Yes. the same John L. McLean who was manager of the Trenholme mayoralty campaign,
who held the bag for th«* slush fund, the existence of which was uncovered by The Star's investigating
committee; the same John L. McLean who dug uo the Jacob Furth contribution, and the breweries'
contribution, and the Chilberg contribution. Two members of the council have pledged him their
MORE. THAN
45,000
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. Cole.. April 28.—
Two hundred militiaman, with
a machine gun mounted on a
ridge weet of Waleonburg to
day. ware aweeping the McNal-
Iy mine, captured laat night by
miner*, with a terrific fire.
A number of per*on* are report
ed dea<l. Including three mine
guard* and five striker*
I.ocal official* of the I'nlted
Mine Worker* of America declared
51 militiamen tried to charge tbe
MeNalljr mine, but were repulsed
Fir* Volleys In Street
Telephoning to authorities here.
T. M. Hudson «-'«rk of tbe dlatrlct
court at Waisenburg. aaaerted the
militia an.l mine guard* had train
ed a machine gun on Walsenburg
Itself and were sending roller after
▼olley do* n tbe town's main street.
lie said he heard three miners
had T>eer> VTTTefI
People Tarror-Strichen
• One miner was killed at the
Walseaburf depot." said Hudson.
"Hl* killing waa said to be un
called for. a* the depot la a long
«i) from tbe mines
' The people of Wal*enbur* are
terror-*tricken Women and chil
dren hare sought safety In cellar#
and closets. The situation la crit
ical."
Both Side* Shift Blame
Report* regarding the trouble
differ
Strikers say the battle waa pre
cipitated whm McNally mine
guards fired on an automobile con
taining four striker*.
t'nlou leaders also denied that
the miner* had fired any building*,
explaining that an explosion of oil
started a fire which destroyed sev
eral frame house*.
Operators assert, however, that
the strikers first dynamited and
then fired the building*.
260 MINERS
ENTOMBED!
ECCLES. W. Va„ April 28.—Two
hundred and sixty man ware en
tombed in a coal mine near here
today by an explosion. It Is not
yet known how many were killed.
AVIATOR KILLED
LONO BEACH, CM.. April 25.~
Chaa. C. Royston, aviator flying
from T»* Angeles to San Mego. fell
at Domlnguer tbla morning, a dis
tance of 600 feet. Hp was picked
up unconscious and died Just as
ae wan taken Into the sanitarium
at lxmx Bear li.
MRS. LAMB GOT
POOR BARGAIN
"He ow»•<! me for five years' board
when I married him on September
27. 1911," said Mrs. Augusta J
J.airib In divorce suit aualnst Her
bert J,anib yesterday afternoon. "I
bought him a new suit and xot him
a Job on a Han Francisco boat, but
he quit as soon as we wcr» married "
Mr*. I.arnb was granted a decree
by Judge Dy kern an
ORDER U. S. TROOPS
TO STRIKE SCENE
WASHINGTON, April 28—
Following a prolorvged confer
ence with Secretary Garrison,
President Wileon today ordered
elx troops of U. 8 cavalry
from Ft. Russell, Cheyenne,
Into the Colorado mine strike
zone to restore order.
At the same time that the
VOLUME 16. 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.
Typical Group of Children Massacred In th* T*nt Colony at Ludlow by
Rockefeller'* Murderer*
ARMY OF STRIKING
MINERS IN FRENZY
By Edward A. Evan*
(Staff Special Correspondent of The Star.)
TRINIDAD. Colo., April 28— IN LESS THAN A
WEEK A THOUSAND MEN MAY BE DEAD IN THESE
HILLS.
Bitter, bloody, desperate civil war is on in this coal min
ing district. Nothing I can say is strong enough to describe
the situation.
Thousands of striking coal miner* are in a frenzy over
the MASSACRE OF THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
AT LUDLOW. They listen to no reason —words of coun
sel, conciliation and j>eace are worse than useless.
"REMEMBER LUDLOW!" IS THE SHRIEK HEARD
FROM HILL TO HILL.
Nothing can save terrible bloodshed but United States
troops, in my opinion.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the striking coal miners
are men who have fought on desperate battlefields in the
Balkans and Mexico. These men. Greeks. Bulgarians, Rou
manians and Mexicans, are VETERAN SOLDIERS, CALM
IN THE FACE OF FIRE. UNDERSTANDING FIRE
ARMS, AND ARE REASONABLY GOOD SHOTS AT
LONG DISTANCES.
ft will be seen that raw militia has a foe of seasoned
experience, well armed and supplied with dynamite They
even have machine guns, I am told.
Five thousand Colorado women have demanded that
Governor Ammons call for federal troops. They gave him
five minutes to decide. He sent the request to Washington.
What they hope is that the federal troops will stop civil
war and give time to make Rockefeller and the coal com
panies settle
troops arrive a proclamation,
which has already been tele
graphed to Colorado will be
published, calling on at• dis
turbers to lay down their arme
and go home.
It will be in effect, a reading
of the riot act by the federal
government and the cawalry
will be sent to tnforce it.
FAIR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; LIGHT FROST TONIGHT: LIGHT WESTERLY BREEZE
The Seattle Star
SAY FAREWELLS
A striking irliiute of respect and
depreciation was paid last night (o
l>r Van Horn of I'lymouth Con*re
khiloiihl church a.' s< or»*s of people
from Ills own arid oilier cungrega
Hons gntli»-re<| 111 a farewell meet
ing to wish him well In Ills new field
In Oakland, Cal.
ARMY IS BALKY
LONDON. A|irll 2V Thst army
officers Iml lialkid again wheu
called on to serve In I7|*U»r to pre
vent distribution of arms was as
serted today by the London Even
lag News.
THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS
A Typical Tim In Ui* Colony at
Ludlrv*
MEXICANS CHEER
AS U. S. TROOPS
ENTER HARBOR
•Y BERNARD RUCKER
VERA CRUZ. April 21—
G*n. Funston'a troop* wer* or
d*r*d to land from th*lr tran»-
port* outside th* harbor to re
lieve the blu*Jack*t* on shor*
duly.
Wh»n Funston's transports en
tered the Inner harbor the Ainerl
ran* on shore cheered What *t>
more significant waa that a crowd
txf ak/.MI I A«IA U.«U.a< aI.A
T00BA0!T00BA0!WHAT
WILL THEYORWK NOW?
SAN 01 ECO. April
The firat genuine cataetro
pha to on* of Uncle Sam'*
fighting craft on tha Pacific
since th* Mexican trou
ble began waa reported
today from th* erul*«r
Cleveland, apeedlng south
ward from thla port.
Two large er«t*a of grap*
juice taken aboard a a a re
auit of Secretary Daniels'
recent order against liquor
for the officera fall In *om*
way. The bottlea were
•mashed.
cheered enthusiastically.
Ah the ahlpa entered an aero
plane ascended from the Missis
alppl and circled the harbor
REBEL CHIEFS CONFER
WASHINGTON. April 2S.—The
administration Is deeply concerned
over the rebels' attitude. If a
break should occur between Carran
*a and Villa at their conference at
Chihuahua today, It Is thought
likely the former and his f llowcrs
will go entirely over to Ifuerta.
which might be expected to make
the dictator more stubborn In his
negotiations
MEDIATOR PESSIMISTIC
WASHINGTON, April 2* -It
was learned today that one of the
three mediators of the American-
Mexican dispute regards a settle
ment as hopeless.
RETURNS CHILD
Kxplalnlng that she had taken
4 year-old Hermit Hinnett to the
home of a friend for a visit, Mr*.
Chapman, nurse for the little son of
Mr and Mrs. I. A. Slnnett, 112 Klrst
»v. S,, returned with the boy lasl
night aftei 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.
Premier Asqulth serves notice
that all persons caught running
guns into I'later will be severely
dealt with by government.
SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AFRIL 28, 1914
votes. There is talk that more will come over. The ,'113,000 people of Seattle won't stand for Mc-
Lean. 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.
urn
By Edward A. Evans
V (CORRESPONDENT OF THE STAR) # 1
TRINIDAD, Colo., April 28.—The strikers started all this trouble in Colorado, the
militiamen say. 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 bv 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
seized with :his all consuming desire for blood vengeance.
Eleven children and two women. Ml RDhRED B} JOHA D. ROCKht EL.LKR S
GUNMEN!
THE COLORADO SITUATION
FOH a year thou*and* of under-fed miner* In Colorado havo
been on ctrlke for a living **g*. tolerable working condition*
and recognition of th«lr union.
—Propertle* affected are mine* of the Colorado Iron and
Fuel Co, controlled by the John D. Rockefeller lotere*t».
- To ln*ure home* for Olemaelvca and famllle* during the
(truggle. miner* In the l<«idlow dlatrict. the atorm center, leaaed
a tract of land, not company property, and e*tabllabed a tent
city.
—Armed thug* and gunman, placed In the field by the
opttitoi*. » »»• appear to tinS6TTB«U machinery of the
•tain. raked the' Ixidlow tent city with a deadly fire, knowing
only women and children were there, and killed tnany.
— Miner* fought force with force, armed them»elvea and
deatroyed company property
-Cnßgre** tonal Investigation atarted John I) Rockefeller,
jr.. i* reported to have aald he will apend every dollar of hla
fortune rather than give In. He dt*clalm* peraonal reaponal
blllty for (>tate of civil war.
— Prealdent Wilton. through Chairman Pouter of the houw?
committee on mining, voice* peraonal plea to John D. Rocke
feller to end atrike through arbitration.
— Rockefeller flatly reject* all offer* of arbitration, but
Ko*ter wa* expected to confer with J. C. Ocgood. another of the
large*t Colorado mine owner*, at New York, before returning
to Washington.
— IvOuUvllle. Lafayette and Maraball. three town* In the
northern Colorado coal field*, reported attacked by miner* with
machine gun*, (tattle* In progreaa at other i«>lnt*
—Two hundred militiamen, commanded by Adjt. Gen. Cha*e.
encamped at Ludlow. IS mil** north of Trinidad. Htrtkar* erect
ing new tent colony under tuperrlaion of "Mother" Jones
COUNCIL HITS AT
HINKY-DINK PLAN
The hlnky dink folk of our char
ter revision commission have a
fearful peevo on today.
The council yesterday refused to
allow them Iti'ft additional, on top
of |MK> already appropriated, to
pay the expense* of framing up a
Bathhouse John" charter for Se
attle.
Krtckaon. Heeketh and I.undy
voted agalnat the extra expense.
Fitzgerald, Haas. Dale. (ioddard
and Marhlc voted for It.
STATE CALLS FOR
VOLUNTEERS TO
FIGHT STRIKERS
DENVER, April 28.—Gov.
Ammone has Issued a call for
militia volunteers.
He declared martial law In
Boulder county and ordered
100 troops there from Canon
City. The soldiers left on a
special train at 9 a. m.
The governor had heard that
Sheriff Buster and a posse or
deputies and mine guards were
cornered In the Hecla mine
and In danger of extermination.
NO AMERICANS
KILLED, HE SAYS
WASHINGTON, April 2K The
Hra/lllan minister at Mexico City
notified Secretary Bryan today
that iiot a single American had
been slain there, none was i nd hi
gered, and only one arrest had
been made.
"I have full assurances," added
the minister "that all foreigner*
will be allowed to letue tile illy
whenever they pleaeo."
ONE CENT
I "When thla question was up be
fore ch«- people they voted In favor
•of commission form of government.
. The rommlaalon has none directly
In the op| i>K|te direction." said
Councilman Erlckaon. "For that
reason 1 couldn't we my way clear
to add any more money,"
"All we've gotten out of thla la
tflory and now we'll have to dig
down In our own |>ockct>< and pay
the bllla," yell the charter frame re.
They are about ready to spring
I their flnlahed charter
BIG SHIPMENTS
OF ARMS MADE
TO COAL FIELDS
I'ITTSHHRG, April 28 --That
two large shipments of arms and
ammunition hail been kciii within
the paßt four da.vi from Charles
ton, W. Vr.. to the Colorado coal
field* win reported here today.
It wan said that on Saturday the
Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Co.
non»l«;iie<l to "H. Kelt*. Trinidad,"
1 N.uoti cartridge*, and that on Mon
day a machine gun and 16.0110
round* of ammunition were ship
ped to "II W. Kreba."
OLSEN IS IN LEAD
Attorney Prank Ollen, with of
flees In the Lyon building, loomed
up In the lead In the race for the
cltv council vacancy this morning
when lie received four votes Ktti
gerald. Heaketh. Ooddaid and
I Inn:' voted for lilm. ,1. L Mclean
and C .1 France still remained in
tlu- ruiitllllß*
J
I personally helped to take from one of the death traps at the
destroyed tent colony at Ludlow THE CHARRED AND MUTILATED
BODIES.
Tbeae bodies had been the wives and babies of striking miners
who. escaping to the hills from the Rockefeller gunmen, had left their
only treasures behind, naturally expecting that they would be Immune
from RIFLE BILLET, MACHINE GUN AND RAVAGING TORCH.
Although I had been deported earlier In the day by Major Halwek.
commanding the "Lefty Louies" and "Gyp the Bloods" In uniforms. I
ventured back under the protection of the Rod Cross flag.
In the death hole we found the bodies, heaped together.
Mrs. Charles Costa and her two children, Mrs. 8. ("have* and her
i four children and the three children of Mrs. Mary Petruccl and the
two of Mrs. Angelina Petragon were dead there.
Mrs. Petruccl and Mrs Pelragon had eecapad
The death cellar Is a perpendicular shaft ten feet deep, with rude
steps carved In the earth sides, and at the bottom a room. sU feet
square and three feet high, hollowed out.
None of the children were more than 11 years old. THERE WAS
ONE 2 MONTHS' OLD BABY AND ANOTHER A YEAR OLD. Th«
i hands and arms of these little onee were scarred and burned to the
i bone. Mute testimony to their struggle to escape suffocation.
THESE BABIES HAD REACHED UP WITH THEIR TENDER
HANDS, TRIED TO PULL THEMSELVES OUT OF THE CELLAR
BY GRASPING THE BLAZING BOARDS. AND HAD FALLEN BACK
INTO THE HOLE TO DIE.
We drew the 13 corpses out. handling them as gently as we could,
and plied them up In two death wagons, which the gunmen finally bad
' permitted to approach the ruined colony.
The body of Charles Costa, whose wife and two children died In
| the cellar, was brought in from a hillside, a quarter of a mile away,
and so the death wagons brought a GREWSOME LOAD OP 14 BODIES
Into the little morgue In Trinidad
We Red Cross people had iwo autos. John Mclennan. district
| president of the L'nlled Mine Workers, rode in the first car and car
ried the flag.
In the party were Rev. J A. Paris. Episcopal rector. Rev. Ran
dolph Cook. Christian church minister, and si* brave Trinidad women
, —Mrs. IVarl Jolly, Mrs. James Bradshaw, Mrs. James l*annlgan, Mr».
: E. L Walker. Mrs. C. E. Ryan and Mrs. O W. Stoneclpher.
Coming through the lines of the gunmen. I pulled my cap down
i over my face and got through without being recognlied.
The acene as we raiaed those little bodies out of that hell hole wm
most affecting.
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 and
shook with emotion that almost palsied them. The two men of God
ATTEMPTED PRAYER. BUT THE WOROS FROZE ON THEIR LIPB.
I A band of the big city gunmen stood around while we were at
work and they GRINNED AT THE MEN WHO WERE WEAK ENOUGH
TO SOB OUT LOUD.
At Ludlow, where less than a week ago 818 strikers were living
happily, the scene is one of desolation. Smoke was still curling from
some of the tents, and a few disconsolate, singed chickens picked about
' the streets of the deserted tent vlllsge.
Camp curs fled before the militiamen, and while we were there
i two of these dogs were wantonly shot, the gunmen laughing loudly aa
! they saw the curs fall dead.
• • • • •
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."
They began firing at the car and suddenly we heard a machine
I gun sing out: "B —r-r-r-r-r-r-r."
The automobile passed out of sight, but later I learned that Its
occupants were R. E. !>evers. Roland Levers, Mrs. Koland Levera and
Miss Wava l«evers, cltliens of Roswell, N. M.. dri\lng in their car
from Rockyford. Col., to Roswell and unaware of any strike trouble.
The uniformed gunmen did not slop to find who was in the auto
mobile. but TRAINED THEIR RIFLES AND MACHINE GUN ON THE
YOI'NO WOMEN IN IT. The top of the car was riddled with the
bullets and the wind shield was broken, hut the occupants were not
scratched.
"I'm glad I live in New Mexiro and not BIXJODT COLOHADO,"
It. E. Levers said In Trinidad Wednesday nluht.
500 FARMERS SIGN
HAMILTON RECALL
five hundred names were at
tached to recall petitions for Ham
ilton and Knudscn received from
Knuniclaw at headquarters this
moruing. Seven petitions were
circulated and there were Mi winn
ers In Kirch precinct, a supposed
Hamilton stronghold, out of a pos
sible rtl.
Circulators were generally met
with the glad hand, the only per
houh flatly r«flMlng to nign being
those directly Interested In road
work, or those who Bigned the
sham resolutions endorsing l-iaiull
ton.
i The farmers Mpmwd them
selves u» united in llieir effort* to
NIGHT
EDITION
end the ring rule of Hamilton and
Knudscn
Attorneys Meade and Vander
veer will argue the Cecil Cpper
l.afe II million county ambulance
case before Judge Mackintosh Sat
urday, on the motion for a new
trial, filed by the defense.
The motion was filed by Van
derveer & Cummings. attor
neys for Hamilton, in spite of
the fact both sides had agreed
to abide by the decision of the
Jury. The Jury found Hamilton
was directly or indirectly in
terested in the (ale of the mi
chine Tor $3,000 fo King county.
Judge Mackintosh win aouotiuc*
his Judgment after argumeul. *
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