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solitaryfossil:

The incident, known as the Ludlow Massacre, occurred in April of 1914, and it sparked a 10-day battle in the coalfields of the American West. It was one of the bloodiest episodes in the history of American class conflict, and one of the closest things to war between compatriots since the Confederacy was defeated a half-century earlier.

“On April 19,
the striking miners at Ludlow put on an Orthodox Easter celebration for
the Greek families in their tent colony. On April 20, the Colorado
Guardsmen came to Ludlow, claiming to be searching for a suspected
criminal. It’s still unclear who fired the first shot, but a ten-hour
gun battle between the armed striking miners at Ludlow and the Colorado
National Guard ensued. Martelle described the scene, which would later
come to be known as the Ludlow Massacre:

Seven
men and a boy were killed in the shooting, at least three of the
men — all striking coal miners, one a leader — apparently executed in
cold blood by Colorado National Guardsmen who had taken them captive. As
the sun set, the

reducing
most of the makeshift village to ashes. It wasn’t until the next
morning that the bodies of two mothers and eleven children were
discovered where they had taken shelter in a dirt bunker beneath one of
the tents. The raging fire had sucked the oxygen from the air below,
suffocating the families as they hid from the gun battle.”

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