On April 20th

On April 20, 1914, Colorado National Guard troops and company guards attacked the Ludlow tent colony — 1,200 striking coal miners and their families — and set the tents ablaze. Two women and eleven children suffocated in a pit beneath their burning tent; roughly 25 people died in all. The massacre radicalized American labor relations and is now a National Historic Landmark.

The April 20, 1914 massacre is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Ludlow' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.