Jul 06 2007
Last Survivor of Ludlow Massacre Dies
Mary Benich-McCleary of Morgan City, Louisiana, died June 29 of a stroke at the age of 9. She was a toddler when militia arrived at the striking miners’ camp near Trinidad, Colorado and opened fire in 1914. Ten strikers were killed in the gun battle as well as a striker’s child. After the militia set fire to the camp, ten children and a woman died.
Though largely forgotten, Woody Guthrie tried to honor the memory of the victims.