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Show lARDlG TO USE TROOPS 0 OPEN COAL MINES RIFF AND D02FFGUARDS ALL BEFORE DEADLY HAIL AT COLLIERY RUN AS OPEN SHOP phone Report Says at Least 25 Others Have 'feeen Wounded; Ambulances Turned Back by Rain of Bullets From Scene of Battle i E WHEELING. W. Vn, July 17 Sheriff H H. Duvall and 12 persons were killed and no less than 25 others wounded in a at the Standard ?mne of the Richland Coal company, two miles Wellsburg-, W. Va., early this morning, according- to a tele-HtteBsagc tele-HtteBsagc from the correspondent of the Wheeling News at burg, Die ii : i '. ; i ;-.3 been working on an open shop pas reported to have been attacked by a large party of men hrer the Pennsylvania line;. After the fight they burned the E I Nine of tho men. supposed to b? j Striking miners from Pennsylvania, Wb .'ttaclced the mine have been ar-rested ar-rested and three of them who were j Injured have been taken to a local hospital. 'i he attacking party. Faid to number num-ber seferal hundred, opened fire on the mine guards and sheriff's deputies from BUrrdundinjE hills early this morning according to Information ii the mayor's office in V cllsburg. OPEN DEADLY 1 IKE. Standing behrnd trees" ancl ro high Up1 In 1 he hills, the attack"! op ned a deadly fire, picking off the guards and deputies one by one. After resistance had weakened, the attabkors swooped down on the mln2 and set lire to the tipple. Accordinc to information here, the attackers began arriving In this vlbln-Itl vlbln-Itl aooul 10 o'clock Sunday night hy automobile truck and walking The attack Mrs made about 5 o'clock this moi nine Deuuty sheriffs, aided by state po-1 po-1 aie reported scouring the eur-rourulin'r eur-rourulin'r country for members of the attacking party. S 1 OPP1 i) BY BULLE rs STJ3LTBENV1LLE, Ohio. July 17.--Autonioblles carijyinK newspaper men and ambulances proceeding from WeilpburK and Foll4nabee. W. Va... to the Richland mines were turned back by bullets at y.-la o'cJoek weie received re-ceived here where firing Is still go-ins go-ins on leading to the mines Kour deputies, all seriously injured, have been brought to Wellsburg. -t 10 a. n. . amui'anes loaded with deputies started from Wcllsburg to iry to force their way to the mine lo brinfr in the wounded and the bodies of tho de.id. RJSPOR1 10 DEAD. WELLSBURG. V Va . Julv 17 'By Telephone to lituburg) Police heidour.rters here today reported that its information from the Richland mini .sa ihat 1 U. im ludintr the sheriff, sher-iff, met death in fights there this morning. The chief clerk In the police po-lice department said the trouble started about 5 a. m.. when otrikins miners, said to have marched from acro.ss the Pennsylvania line, fired the tipple T H. Duvall. who was with his father at the mine, todav accompanied accompa-nied the l.odv of his father 10 their borne here. "There had been rumors for some time." he atd. ' that the mine was to Be attacked. It had been operating .lonunion and Sunday night wo heard the att.n h was to be made soon The shi riff had a detad of men at th mine, but he gathered up a number of others here and we went out to the mine Sunday nipht. The report was that a bic crowd u. men were on their way from over the Jlaie line In Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania THEJS FIRING BEGINS. "Nothing haDDcned until about dav-breah dav-breah when firing began from the too Of the hill above the mine oneninsc. We reidied to the fire and the sheriff sher-iff ordered 1 he men to move up the ; h"l- 1 bei responded, firing as they went. The sheriff reached tho top 1 saw him a few minutes before and J he woi hurrying over small partv of the mod. suppose tie was killed shortly atler that because I found his ! bodv there when 1 cahie up PIiENT OF BUEIETS. i "The mob Sined to be armed With I all kind:- of trims and had abundant I ammunition, because they kept shooting, shoot-ing, even after we had broken Ttheli j line and they were running over the I hill. I "I don't know how many of the j men who attacked us were killed , There were ..t least eU'ht for I am sure 1 saw Hial manv bodies. Theru J may be others out In the wood! thouirh they ran when we went iu the hill l know a lot of them were wounded but of course it will take some lime to cet the exact number as tho less seriously wounded were helped away by their friends " |