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Show DEPUTY SHOT Two Men Wounded in Brush Between Officers Of-ficers and Miners Bingham, Utah, Oct 25 In a fierce fight between deputy sheriffs and Cretan Cre-tan strike pickets, which marked tbe resumption of work at the United Stutes mine and tranr.ay at 7:50 o'clock this morning, Leroy J. Tid-well, Tid-well, a deputy sheriff, was shot In the breast, sustaining a serious flesh wound and also a wound In the wrist. The two Greeks whom TIdwell was taking to work also were shot. One of them, Harry Spendon, received a wound in the abdomen which, It Is believed, will prove fatal The other, John Hogadakis, was hit in the right wrist by a striker's bullet In the fusillade which followed thc first volley, Fred Harmon, foreman of tho United States Mining company's compa-ny's tramway, was struck in the leg by a glancing bullet Dozens of bullets bul-lets from tho rifles of the pickets fell at thc feet of R. S. Miller, captain of a detachment of guards, who was standing in the rear of the United States mine office when the firing opened. Sixteen guards rushed to the scene as TIdwell fell and Immediately Immediate-ly oponed flro on the Cretans, who fled to the hills. A posse of 150 mounted deputies, heavily armed with revolvers and rl-l lies, are now scouring thc hills for W tho pickets. The blowing of the whistle for the K men to go to work at the mine was w the signal for the attack by tho Cre- tans, who were entrenched in the hills i& across the gulch from the mine. They W fired several vollej's beforo they re- im treated. B Sheriff Joseph C. Sharp rushed1 to I i the scene with half a dozen doput3 1 sheriffs from Salt Lako City. He ll will take charge of the search for thc 1 tv Cretans. j II Two companies of guards are clos- IB ing In on their only possible route ol 21 escape It is not thought that Spcn- l don can live many hours. The outbreak this morning was tho IH most serious incident of the strike flfl against the Utah Copper and other 19 Bingham mining companies, which be- H gan five weeks ago. fl |