Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 1 | Shots Fired at Federal Troops

SHOTS FIRED AT FEDERAL TROOPS First Difficulty With Mines Since U. S. Forces Arrived in Strike District. PATROL IS SURPRISED Eastern Organizers Brought to Colorado May Be Barred By Col. Lockett. Trinidad. Colo, May 26. For the first time since they assumed control con-trol in the strike districts of the Colorado coal fields, the United States troops were fired upon last night it was learned today. The shooting occurred at a miners' camp at Seg.indo, near Trinidad, where 20 shot- were fired at the federal troops. The shots were fired at a patrol from r hillside overlooking the camp after trooper, who had dodged a mis&:'e thrown at him through a window, answered a shot fired at him from the darkness Th? patrol, starting to search fur the pei son firing the shot, was surprised sur-prised b n fusillade of shots coming from the direction of the hills. Captain Cap-tain Cushman reported that one man seen to run from concealment in a ditch but made his getaway. Colonel Lockett, commnnding the federal troops, would make no comment com-ment relative to the shooting Colonel Lockett said he was con sidering an announcement made by William Diamond, of the United ' Mine Workers, that eastern organiz-l era wore to be brought to Colorado' to conduct the strike and that he had reached no decision as to whether wheth-er or not he would bar them from ; entering the district