Show I FIFTEEN GUARDS SHOT BY STRIKERS Miners Resent Company's Effort Effort Effort Ef Ef- Ef- Ef fort to Import Union Non-Union Men HUNDREDS OF SHOTS FIRED Four Pour Hundred Striker J Attack Forty Guards Militia Iu May Bo Ht Culled Called Out to Quell Riot Cleveland O A O. O June Telephone l. Telephone I reports from early this tills morning morning- state stale that In a light tight between striking coal miners and arni forty gU guards fifteen of or the tile latter have havo been shot It Is Js not flot known how many were killed as the tile rost rest of or the tho guards arc are in inthe inthe the mints s and are arc afraid to come out and ami r remove mo e or attend tho tue wounded or dead Militia Promised I Sheriff Yo Voorhees i Immediately e j got Into n with th tat i uw bl t f l r fth l- l ed ou IC he finds that he Is iB unable to control the situa situa- tion He has hitS been heen promised troops oops In Incase Incuse incase case cuse ho makes a demand for Cor them The sheriff sherif also ha has called up H H. E E. Willard Villard general manager and seer secre secre- e tary taly of or the United States Coal company com Coin pany which owns and operates Operate the tue mine at Plum Run Hun the thc scene of the tho rioting tion and advised him o of tho the situa situa- Import t Non Men From reports ts received here it is said that the lighting fighting was vas the thc result of oC the coal company attempting to Import t a carload of oC union non men under of darkness cover Tho strikers ers had pickets on duty and as soon as thc they discovered the train ala with the new men the they aroused the tho entire mining mIlling population The I strikers tried led to seek seel out tho the Import t ed cd men In an endeavor to keep them from rom entering the mines The guards sought to gain J possession of the breal breakers by force and drew strike I suns guns thou their Gum Is This act acL the strikers Tho Tue guards In order to frighten tho the strikers iii fil ell ed Into the minors air but the tho instead of or fleeing attack made a concerted con con- upon Ulon their The Tho assailants battle baUlo waged fOI for fifteen hundreds of or shots minutes being SIred guards The outnumbered eth routed and forced to vero finall finally withdraw the tho mines into for Cor Sheriff protection Voorhees has not yet ct taken any action st state te capital awaiting word vorI Crom the lie |