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Show PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN MINERS Lafayette, Colo., SepL IS. Five hundre'd shots were fired laRt night In a pitched battlo between non-union coal miners employed at the Simpson mine and a band of supposed union men who attacked the stocknde in which the former were having a dance George Micboff. one of tho non-union men, was Hhot threo times and will probably die. If any of the attacking party wero killed or wounded wound-ed thoy wero carried from the field by their comrades, The sheriff arrived ar-rived at Lafayette at 11 o'clock and is patrolling the town with a posse. Three times the attacking parly charged the stockade, firing at the men within and each time the fire was returned vigorously. Finally tho assailants withdrew. A strike has been on In the northom Colorado coal fioids for more than two years. |