Hellraisers Journal: Nine Hundred Striking Miners March Through Trinidad to Honor Martyred Coal Miner, Luca Vahernick

Janet RayeHellraisers Journal, Southern Colorado Coalfield Strike 1913-1914
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Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925—————

Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday October 22, 1913
News from the Coal Miners’ Strike in Southern Colorado

From The Rocky Mountain News of October 21, 1913
-Trinidad, Colorado-October 20
Nine Hundred Striking Miners March to Honor Luca Vahernick

Funeral for Forbes Colorado Martyr, RMN p11, Oct 21, 1913

From the Trinidad Chronicle News of October 20, 1913:

Funeral for Forbes Colorado Martyr, LV, TCN p5, Oct 20, 1913

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6

The Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, Colorado)
-Oct 21, 1913
Luca Vahernick
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-147910E1CFD1CA18@2420062-14775812D0A060D0@10-14775812D0A060D0

The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Oct 20, 1913
Luca Vahrenich
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-10-20/ed-1/seq-5/

See also:

Hellraisers Journal: News from Colorado Coalfield Strike:
Forbes Tent Colony Attacked by Operators’ “Death Special”

Out of the Depths
The Story of John R. Lawson, A Labor Leader
-Barron B. Beshoar
Colorado Labor Historical Committee
of the Denver Area Labor Federation, 1942
Luke Verhornik
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse/page/72/mode/1up?q=luke+&view=theater

FindaGrave – Catholic Cemetery, Trinidad, Colorado
Luka Valhernick
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104490567/luka-valhernick

CIR p6040-Doyle Testimony
-re Luke Verhonik & re “Ludlow Massacre” by Fink
https://books.google.com/books?id=x-geAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6940&lpg=PA6940&dq=%22luke+verhonik%22+1913&source=bl&ots=EKXypZtfgN&sig=ACfU3U2lqMdOdn58A5kfa1ReF6k3AwJB_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj47NmCkY2CAxUnnGoFHb-hDiIQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22luke%20verhonik%22%201913&f=false

The Ludlow Massacre
-by Walter H. Fink
Denver, Colorado, 1914
-re Death Special at Forbes Tent Colony
https://archive.org/details/ludlowmassacrere00finkrich/page/n2/mode/1up

Note: Luca’s name has been variously reported as Luca/Luke/Luka Vahernick/Vahrenich/Verhornik/Verhonik/Valhernick.

Note: Unable to determine name of “Slavish society” to which Luca belonged. Newspapers of the day were often not careful about reporting on nationalities. Inscription on Monument for Primero Mine Disaster indicates he may have been Slovene or Croatian citizen:

Google Translate:
Slovene and Croatian citizens die here. They died on January 31, 1910 Primero Colorado

Here I think of Countless, I wake up, the sky wakes up, and the closeness of my kinship breathes from the silent and dreary mounds.

Perhaps he was a member of the SNPJ
The Slovene National Benefit Society
(Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, SNPJ)
https://www.lawcha.org/2021/12/02/rossi-immigrant-societies-colorado-strike/

Tag: Forbes Tent Colony CO
https://weneverforget.org/tag/forbes-tent-colony-co/

Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/

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Angels We Let Go – Tom Breiding