Death records for Las Animas County Colorado

BABY BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKE
Trinidad, Colo., August 4-Emma, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bruedenbcok, is dead from the effects of a rattlesnake bite. The child was bitten when playing in the backyard at her home in this city.

The Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada August 4, 1902

©Shauna Williams

SHOT IN HEAD WHILE READING LETTER
Trinidad, Colo., April 8-John H. Fox, former country treasurer, was killed in the post office here at 1:45 p.m. today by Joseph Johnson, a local politician. Johnson shot Fox in the back of the head while he was reading a letter.
Johnson was arrested and a lynching is threatened.

The Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada April 8 1905

©Shauna Williams

MINES CAVES IN KILLING MEN
Trinidad, Colo., May 5-John O'Neil, James Roe and Jack Cavillito have been instantly killed by a cave in in the Starkville coal mine. Their bodies were buried under tons of rock in a drift a mile from the mouth of the mine.

May 5, 1905 Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

©S. Williams

STOLE MY WIFE SAYS SLAYER
Trinidad, Colo., March 15-Edward Butler, a saloonkeeper, was host and killed today by J.M. Justice. Justice immediately gave himself up to the officers and stated that Butler had stolen his wife from him and refused to reveal her whereabouts.

The Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada March 16, 1909

©Shauna Williams

BOY SHOOTS MOTHER
Trinidad, Colo., July 12-John Lutzke, 11 years of age, shot his mother, Mrs. Fred Lutzke, with a rifle while playing Indian near the Lutzke home at Delagua, 18 miles north of here, today. The bullet took effect in the left breast.

The Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada July 13, 1910

STRIKE MARSHAL SLAIN
Trinidad, Colo., Sept. 24-The first disorder in the Colorado coal miners' strike occurred at noon today, when Camp Marshal Robert Lee at Segundo, near here, was shot and killed. According to information received here the shooting was done by three strikers.

September 24, 1913 The Reno Evening Gazette, Reno Nevada

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