1 jul 1914 año - "The Nice People of Trinidad"
-The New Masses 1914, July
Ludlow Massacre
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The New Masses 1914, July - The Nice People of Trinidad
So that is how I returned to my original faith in Pearl Jolly’s story of what she heard over the telephone. And when she tells me that while she was assisting in lifting twelve corpses out of that black pit, the soldiers of the National Guard stood by insulting her in a manner that she will not repeat, and one of them said, “Sorry we didn’t have more in there for you to take out,” I believe that, too.
When a train despatcher at Ludlow and his assistant both assure me that at 9 : 20 A. M. on Monday, the 23d of April, from their office, square in front of. the two military camps, they saw and heard the militia fire the first shot, and that the machine guns were trained directly on the tent-colony from the start, although never a shot was fired from the colony all day, I believe that.
This “Battle of Ludlow” has been portrayed in the best of the press as a “shooting-up” of the tent-colony by soldiers from a distance, while armed miners “shotup” the soldiers to some extent, also, from another distance.
The final burning and murder of women and children has been described as a semi-accidental consequence, due perhaps to irresponsible individuals
~I want to record my opinion, and that of my companions in the investigation, that this battle was from the first a deliberate effort of the soldiers to assault the tent-colony, with purpose to burn, pillage and kill, and that the fire of the miners with their forty rifles from a railroad cut and an arroyo on two sides of the colony was the one and only thing that held off that assault and massacre until after dark. It was those forty rifles that enabled as many of the women and children to escape as did escape.
Every person in and in the vicinity of the colony reports the training of machine guns on women and children as targets in the open field. Mrs. Low, whose husband kept a pump-house for the railroad near the tent-colony, tells me that she had gone to Trinidad the day of the massacre. She came back at 12:45, alighted at a station a mile away, and started running across the prairie to save her little girl whom she had left alone in a tiny white house exactly in the line of fire. They trained a machine gun on her as she ran there in the sunlight.
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