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Show O v 'Riot Guns Fired On Shikars i ONE IS KILLED 2 BADLY HURT AS POLICE SHOOT Guns Fired After Several Patrolmen Are Knocked Down By Strikers MAYOR IS ONLOOKER Women Pulling and Mauling Maul-ing at Girls Seeking to Enter Mills PWVTL'CKET. R. I . Feb. 21 Ono . mnn was killed, two were serlouslv ' wounded and six persons were hurt when the police used riot guns today nn r frnn-H nt one rhnilMMSd nerSOHM who gathered .it tho plant of the Jenekes Spinning company, where a strike is in progress. The guns wen brought into play when several pi-; pi-; trolmen had been knocked down after ! the arrest of several sTfrkrs. The dead man is Juan D'Assump-cau D'Assump-cau of Valley Falls. Joseph Diaz and Tony ElegOSB of this city were taken to B hospital in a critical condition. RIOT ACT it I ID. Mayor Robert A- Kenyon witnessed the shooting. He had arrived at the gales of the plant eaily in the morning morn-ing to observe the crowd that has customarily gathered to watch working work-ing opera tl es enter the mill. Th? mayor, believing that there was danger dan-ger In tho crowd, read the riot act. : He then told the patrolmen to be careful and calm but to do their I duty and to 'shoot If necessary " Meanwhile women wore pulling and mauling at tho girls who were ) attempting to enter the mill and several sev-eral were knocked down. The police put their shoulders to the crowd anil were countered with fist and club blows Three patrolmen were knocked knock-ed down and the irrests followed. BTOXES Ml RIiED. A passing furniture van was com-mandered com-mandered as a patrol wagon, but j when the patrolmen attempted lo hustle their prisoners aboard it. thy I were stopped by a bombardment of stones. Then riot guns swept the crowd. Eight persons fell all but two of whom got up and ran away. The crowd dispersed. Tho eighth coast artillery company com-pany which was mobilized in tho -late armory last night, left the armory arm-ory St six o'clock today. Its destination desti-nation was not made public. FLAGS VR1 WA ED NATICK, R i, Kelt 21 Striking textile workers and Sympathisers i jammed the streets of thit village to-I to-I dny waving small American flags, but preserving silence. Meanwhile! iiiuuiiu'u uavaiij uu": i iouce kept strict patrol, forcing tho throngs to keep moving. In tho village of Pontlac, eight miles away, people remained In their houses with the blinds drawn. Or-' ders to remain indoors were Issued last night by the military authoriti?a after disturbances at tho B. B. and R. Knitting company mills. In Vatlek hundreds of children, each bearing a tiny American flag, swelled the ranks of tho strike sympathizers. sym-pathizers. I " 1 1 Rl PATROLLING PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Feb 21. Two troops of state cavalry today pn-j trolled the mill village of Pontlac, whore striking cotton operators yesterday yes-terday besieged tho mill and offices of B B. and R Knitting companj I The cavalry dispatched last night at the order of Governor San Soucl was! to be augmented today by a detach-I ment with machine guns and possibly possi-bly by a coast artillery company. Pontlac, cut off from phone com-1 munlcatlon. was ipilet all night, according ac-cording to reportM from the nelg -boring tow n of Arctic I |