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Show STRIKERS ATTACKING MINE AT LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE, Colo.. April 27. The Tlecla mine, a Rocky Mountain Fuel com pany property In this city, twenty-two miles north of Denver, tonight is being attacked by an unknown number of strikers. strik-ers. Tho llrlng began at 10 o'clock and continued unabated through midnight. None of the forty mine guards has been woundod and it is not known what the results of the defenders' fire from rifles and machine guns have been. So thick were the bullets from the battle in the darkness that all telephone and telegraph communication was destroyed for more than an hour, giving rise to the report that the town had been fired. Just before the wires went down the attacked miners and guards sent a call for hcln to the sheriff's office in Boulder. Later It ivhb learned that Assistant District Dis-trict Attorney Harold Martin, who lives near Lafayette, had organized a posse of 200 men and that they were speeding toward this town in automobiles. Sheriff Bustor is among the defenders, having arrived here today. The Hecla mine is surrounded by a stockade and at this and the tipple "the strikers directed their fire. The mine guards were exhausting their ammunition ammuni-tion rapidly and at midnight advices came from J S. WlllianiH, one of the mine officials, that the guards would not be able to hold out much longer unless aid arrived soon. Sheriff's Son Heads Posse. BOULDER. Colo.. April 2S. Eslon Buster, Bus-ter, son of Sheriff Buster, loft his room In the .college dormitory tonight dud headed a posse of forty men In a'n effort to reach his father, who is among those In the Hecla mine at Louisville, which at 10 o'clock tonight was attacked by strikers. strik-ers. Young Buster heard, before leaving, that the fight was exceedingly vigorous and that the defenders of the Hecla were running short of ammunition. Ho and his posso were bending every effort to reach the mine by automobile before the attackers at-tackers could succeed In driving out the mine guards. |