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Show WARFARE CONTINUES IN SPUE OF MARTIAL LAW Mine Guards and 8trlkr Battle for 8everal Hours In Southern Colo rado Coal Fleldt. llerwlnd, Colo. Three battles, the hottest fought since the strike of coal miners In southern Colorado began, marked the flrat day of martial law in this district, on Tuesday. One mine vuard 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 Hast-lugs Hast-lugs that the most serious fighting took place, end It was there that the tnlne 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 iu the three camps. No attempt was made to disarm the guards. |