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Show uu FOUR MEN KILLED IN LUMBERMEN'S FIGHT Lake Charles, La., July S. Four men wore killed and four seriously wounded yesterday in a pitched bat-tlo bat-tlo between union and non-union timber workers and guards employed by a lumber mill at Grabow, La,, a mill town fifty miles north of hero. The dead: CATES HALL. ROY MORTON. EDWARD BROWN" AN UNIDENTIFIED ITALIAN. Hall, Mortou and Brown were union men. A party of 200 men from Dc-rlder, Dc-rlder, under the leadership of A. L. Emerson, president of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Timber Workers, went to Grabow whore a strike Is In progress, prog-ress, to hold a meeting. The proprietor pro-prietor of the mill and his non-union employes, it is said, met them, and in a wordy clash that followed someone some-one fired a revolver This was followed fol-lowed by a fusilnde. Sheriff Reid left immediately on a special train for Grabow, accompanied by the coroner cor-oner and a detachment of Louisiana militia will follow as soon as the men can bo assembled. The trouble has been browing for somo time, It is declared. The mill at Grabow employs but sixty workers. net |