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Show ERS DRIVEN t FROMJkL liE Hav, Narrow Escape From SCV .y.ni " One of Trespassers Is Injured Morgantow-n, W. Va.,-A rifle and revolver fight lasting nearly an hour Was staged here between guards a the Osage mine of the Brady-Warner Coal corporation and trespassers al leged by the coal company to have been striking miners. April 6IH marked the sixth day of the strike of bituminous miners in northern West Virginia and, as asserted as-serted by mine officials, the holdout has been unsuccesful to date. Less than 25 per cent of the mines in this section have been affected by the strike order, mine owners state. Guards brought to the Osage mine several days before the miners left the workings ordered a group of men from the mine property. Later noises of talking and what guards state sounded like hammerings were heard beneath the coal tipple. An investigation investi-gation followed and the mine guards were met with a volley of shots. The fire was returned and a running gun fight ensued, which lasted for nearly near-ly an hour. Finally all of the trespassers tres-passers were forced outside the company com-pany property lines and the guards returned to the mine buildings. Several men experienced narrow escapes from injuries. O. B. Barnes, an officer in the mine guard was burned by powder, when a pistol was exploded in his face. The bullet passed through his hat. Bullets passed pass-ed through the coats of several other guards. An investigation is being made of a report that one of the trespassers was injured in the fray. Hundreds of men are idle and the fences surrounding the grounds of the Osage mine are lined with women and children, while guards patrol the interior as well as the surface property prop-erty of the mine, fearing, they state, an attempt to damage the property. |