Hellraisers Journal: From The Day Book: B. F. Gurley on the “Daredevil Soldiers” of Colorado Who Obeyed the Order of General Chase to “Ride Down the Women”

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Quote Mother Jones, Ladies Women, NYT p3, May 23, 1914—————

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday January 31, 1914
Trinidad, Colorado – “Women Victims Tell of Shameful Charge”

From The Day Book of January 30, 1914
-“Rose Slater” is incorrect; Sarah Slator is age 16:

HdLn CO Women Tell of Charge by Chase, Day Book p1, Jan 30, 1914HdLn CO Women Tell of Charge by Chase, Day Book p2, 3, Jan 30, 1914CO Victims of Chase Charge Hammond n Slater, Day Book p2, Jan 30, 1914

From The Omaha Daily News of January 28, 1914:

CO Cavalry Attack Strikers Wives and Children, Chase Charge, Omaha Dly Ns p1, Jan 28, 1914

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Ladies Women, NYT p3, May 23, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20380177/

The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Jan 30, 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-30/ed-1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-30/ed-1/seq-2/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-30/ed-1/seq-3/

The Omaha Daily News
(Omaha, Nebraska)
-Jan 28, 1914
https://www.newspapers.com/image/744879460

See also:

Note: It appears that B. F. Gurley was the editor of the The Denver Express, pro-union newspaper. More research needed.
https://books.google.com/books?id=fZOXibpJZo0C&pg=PA1664&lpg=PA1664&dq=%22b.+f.+gurley%22+journalist&source=bl&ots=ypIEOR94_W&sig=ACfU3U2uLnypyzg5jO6TeSKxEZjLyw1aug&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip19zh7IiEAxVokyYFHa_wBjMQ6AF6BAgXEAM#v=onepage&q=%22b.%20f.%20gurley%22%20journalist&f=false

Jan 28, 1914, The Day Book p1-4:
Jane Whitaker re “Czar” Chase and Military Barbarism in Colorado Strike Zone
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-28/ed-1/1/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-28/ed-1/seq-2/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-28/ed-1/seq-3/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1914-01-28/ed-1/seq-4/

Jan 31, 1914, Denver United Labor Bulletin
“Cavalry Rides Down a Peaceful Parade, Slashes Women and Children with Sabers”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1914-01-31/ed-1/seq-1/

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday January 24, 1914 
Jan. 22-Trinidad, Colorado – General Chase Orders Cavalrymen: “Ride Down the Woman!”

Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 26, 1914
Trinidad, Colorado – “Mother Jones Has Not Done Anything That We Would Not Do”

Hellraisers Journal – Friday January 30, 1914
Sterling, Colorado – Mrs. Lee Refuses to Help Free Mother Jones
Mrs. Gertrude Lee, Chairman of Democratic State Committee of Colorado, Will Not Help Free Mother Jones from Military Confinement

Conditions in the Coal Mines of Colorado.
Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on mines and mining,
House of Representatives…pursuant to H. res. 387, a resolution authorizing and directing the Committee…to make an investigation…
p987-998: Testimony of Sarah Slator
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hj1e84&seq=1001

Tag: Sarah Slator
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Tag: Military Despotism Colorado 1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/military-despotism-colorado-1914/

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

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