National Guard troopers - reportedly being paid by John D Rockefeller - opened fire on a camp filled with striking coal miners and their families.
Results:
- A large part of the Ludlow tent colony site was destroyed by fire
- UMWA organizer Louis Tikas was assaulted and then, along with two other men, executed by gunshot - Tikas was shot in the back
- five other men were killed by gunshot
- 2 women and 11 children were killed by suffocation and/or fires set by militiamen
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