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The Fires of the Ludlow Tent Colony
The soldiers drenched the canvas tents with coal oil and set them on fire. The engineer described it, we watched from our rock shelter while the militia dragged up their machine guns and poured a murderous fire into the arroyos above the ludlow depot. I am positive that by no possible chance could they have been set ablaze accidentally. And we could see distinctly from our lofty observation place, what looked like a blazing torch waved in the midst of the militia a few seconds before the general conflagration swept through the place. For hours, the countryside shone in a ghastly light, while men, women and children roamed the hills looking for others in their families. At eight