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Show WARFARE CONTINUES IN SPITE OF MARTIAL LAW Mine Guards and Strikers Battle for Several Hours in Southern Colorado Colo-rado Coal Fields. Berwind, Colo. Three battles, the hottest fought since the strike of coal miners in southern Colorado began, marked the first day of martial law in this district, on Tuesday. One mine guard killed, four union men wounded, two badly, two children of non-union men shot, one mine guard missing and a county marshal wounded, wound-ed, were the casualties of the three fights, one here, one at Tabasco and the other at Hastings. It was in Hastings Hast-ings that the most serious fighting took place, and it was there that the mine guard was killed and the strikers strik-ers wounded. Late Tuesday afternoon a force of militiamen from the Trinidad company reached the three camps in this territory, and by virtue of martial mar-tial government, closed every saloon In the three camps. No attempt was made to disarm the guards. |