In the winter of 1913 the United Mine Workers erected near this railroad depot a tent city for 1,500 people evicted from company housing during a strike. In the spring of 1914, the Colorado National Guard crushed the strike, shooting many unionists and setting fire to the tent city. The conflict was exacerbated by hired thugs and detectives employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, whose principal stockholder was John D. Rocke-feller, Jr. Two women and eleven children suffocated in the fire, and in all an estimated 100 people lost their lives in one of the bloodiest episodes in American labor history. Ruins of several buildings linger along the railroad tracks, and a granite statue (1918) of a mining family by sculptor Hugh Sullivan marks the site of the doomed tent city.