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Show RIFLE AND PISTOL FIGHT IN MONTANA I. W. W. Members Ejected From Train Start Trouble; Citizens Quickly Bally. LEWTSTON, Mont., Sept. 22,Three men were wounded today in a riflo and pistol fi'ht between citizens of Judith Gap, forty-five miles southwest of here, and a baud of thirty men who had been ejected from a Great Northern train. About fifty shots were exchanged. Kenneth Ken-neth Jliiy, a brakeman, was struck, but was not seriously hurt: Two members of the hand were the other victims, one receiving a severe wound in the bar k and the other heinjj wounded in the leg. The men began shooting when thev were thrown off the train at the Judith Gap station. Citizens armed themselves and hastened to the aid of the trainmen. train-men. Twenty of the hand, nil bearing cards of the ' Industrial Workers of the World, surrendered and were lodged in jail. The others escaped, including the man said to have tired tin; fir-t shot. It is reported thnt he hateud to ncar-bv ncar-bv towns to notify . V. W. members and word was received here tonight that attempts would be m:tdc to bberate the prion'ers at .hulith Gp. The sheriff sent out a number of armed deputies to help guard the jail. |