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Show !I One Dozen Others Hurt 1 When Crowd Battles With Police ' ; g! Pottsvlllc, Pa., May 8. In a battla g between the state police and a crowd jgT: estimated at between two and three JS thousand men at Minersville early to- Jg day four men are known to hae been jn shot and probably were fatally wound- -Mg ed. It Is believed that a dozen or ( 9fc more others also wore struck by bul- M& lets. ml A woman, Mrs. George Woll, who mS was standing on her porch, was struck W on the arm by a brick and painfully m injdred. The men who aie thought to T have been fatally hurt are David Da- 9U vis, shot through the stomach, and mi two unidentified foreigners. jm Another foreigner was shot through w the leg and seriously wounded, Wt The fight occurred on Fourth street ' K in the central part of tho town and Wn came when a crowd attempted to pre- Jm, vent Superintendent George W Kels- ' ter of the Pine Hill Coal company S from taking two men In his automobile Wfi to Uie colliery Keister had been Br coming to Minersville the last several K days and taking Thomas Parry, a re- iKf palrman, and William Ward, a pump- mL man, to work Today when Keister jM called at a garage for his machine he Tm. was warned by a crowd not to take t WL It out and practically was h,eld a WL prisoner at the place. w "i5i uuifc,toc5 ivituaiu JLjvuj, a. B civil war veteran, addressed the crowd mf and demanded that they disperse, "but K no attention was paid to him. He thereupon requested the state police W? barracks at Pottsville to send a detail w to Minersville. Three men who make ML daily patrols of that section arrived and shortly after were reinforced by l? four more from the Pottsville , bar- Wx racks. Under their guard the automo- 3p bile was taken from the garage and W& was being cranked when someone in ff$ the crowd threw a brick. It struck a ' n policeman on the head. This seemed mTi to be the signal for an attack and im- Jjjk mediately there came a shower of K stones, followed by several pistol J shots. Jjpi The officers fired a volley into tho 3 ground. The crowd paid no attention. Tho officers continued firing, the shots j were returned and a battle followed, "Jb and it is estimated a hundred shots Kt were fired The firing resulted in the V crowd dispersing, leaving four persons W& lying on the ground. Physicians pro- M?t nounced David Davis' wound fatal mS A detachment of troop D, state gf troopers, stationed at Butler, arrived Wk here today and a detail of 12 men jKj was sent to Minersville. These, with M seven members of troop C, are patrol- 'SKj ling the town and report that the law- less spirit is now under control. Mf, The state police left Minersville for we the Pine Hill colliery nearby, where Mr trouble was feared. It is announced m that when additional reinforcements mJ: arrive the entire foreign section of ic the town will 'be put under guard until k every foreigner Is disarmed. JW A pathetic Incident of the shooting S& of David Davis is that his wife is se- ,? riously 111. When she learned of the IjJ shooting of her husband, who was Jft merely an onlooker, she had a re- j! lapse. Neither Is expected to survive ! k the daj Davis was shot through tho f body, the bullet passing through both : lungs. , |