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Show FIGHT STILL ON AT HECLA MINE Strikers and Mine Guards Continue Con-tinue Hostilities Two Wounded No Fatalities. Women and Children Hide in Cellars Vulcan and Gor-ham Gor-ham Mines Quiet. Boulder. Colo., April 2S. Aroused by the attack on the Hecla mine ncai Louisville, which continued at 1" (i lock toda business men of Boulder Boul-der and Longmont were organizing olunteer companies to move against the strikers provided the peace com mission sent out by the county commissioners com-missioners failed to persuade them to end the fighting and maintain OVdei The volunteers here were forming under the leadership of Mayor W, L. Armstrong, former District Judge H, (Jamble, Postmaster J L. Moorehcad and Dr. George Cattermole and at Iongmont undt-r R H Klloley Hardware Hard-ware dealers at the two towns had turned over Ihelr stocks of arms and ammunition. Arrangements were made with the Colorado & Southern railroad to move the volunteers to Louisville. At 10:30 the strikers were reported to be advancing through a railroad cut to the west of the Hecla mine info close quarters. No report has come from Sheriff Buster at the mine since shortly before S o clock as all telephone tele-phone and telegraph wires are down Early today Sheriff Bu6ter declared that a machine gun at the mint- would not be used unless the strikers at-tempted at-tempted to storm the mine enclosure enclo-sure Armed telephone linemen left here today in an effort to restore telephone tele-phone communication, Boulder. r0lo . April 28. - Fighting between strlkfr.-, and mine guards at the Hecla mine at Louisville, which began at 10:30 last night, continued at 8.30 today. At that hour two guards had been slightly wounded according ac-cording to Sheriff Buster No fatali-ims fatali-ims were reported A posse of Boulder Boul-der citizens Is being organized by Under sheriff Euler and Deputy District Dis-trict Attorney Martin to go to the relief of the beleaguered mine. The Hecla mine, th property of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, is located about one mile from Louis-vllle, Louis-vllle, bounded on one side ;it some distance by 8 public road, near which Is a row of houses and cabins. Shr-Iff Shr-Iff Buster in his account of the nights fighting, given by long distance dis-tance telephone today stated that the strikers were using these houses and cabins as protection Sheriff Between Lines. For two hours last night the shenfl was caught between the two lines of fire and took refuge In a store. About J o clock there was a slight lull In the shooting The sheriff, his deputies, j. Krist, and L. McDonald, McDon-ald, former marshal of Louisville, made a dash and gained entrance to the mine enclosure. A brisk fire was resumed at G:30 Sheriff Buster stated, that under orders or-ders from him, machine guns had not been used by the mine defend ers, as their fire necessarily was directed di-rected toward the town. This pre caution, he said, was taken that worn en and children might not be unnec essarily exposed. The women aud children of the strikers have taken refuge In the cellars of their home. The attacks on the Vulcan mine at1 LaCsyetts and the Gorham mine at Marshall last night were of short duration. No casualties were reported report-ed and today ads'ces were-that hostilities hos-tilities had not been resumed. At 1 o'clock It was announced that all the arms and ammunition In the possession of dealers in Boulder, Weld and Larimer counties had been requisitioned for use of the citizens volunteers under orders of District Attorney C. A. Carlson. Carlson announced that he had telephoned tel-ephoned union leaders at Erie, Mar shall. Superior and Lafayette, where -trikers were reported preparing to ; I march to the aid of the fellows at Louisville, urging them to keep their j men at home. He stated that he had warned the district and local union leaders that I he would hold them responsible In the event of fatalities and had a spe-U-ial grand jury called todav to con-sider con-sider cases growing out of the present pres-ent trouble. |