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Show fOLICEMEN AND STRIKERS CLASH I TEN INJURED I wis I Fifty Arrests Made as Result Re-sult of Clash In Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Field. WOMEN TAKE PART Troopers Just About De- feated When Reinforce ments Reach Scene. NUTONTOWN. Pa. April 29. Four KH I state policemen and half a dozen Hl strike sympathizers were Injured ln a SH riot at Tower Hill No 1, 10 miles from l.niontown today Fifty or more ! rests were made the prisoners beins H brought to Vnlontown. RiH Soon after daybreak a crowd of men Sl and womrn. estimated at about 6u0 fiSifl assembled at the mine, which has beet) Ifflsfl seriously eripplod by the coal strike. lUiH snd sought to prevent a dozen or more ll miners who reported for work from HiH entering the pit. -RffLfl The - sinte policemen who were summoned to disperse tho crowd were rtisl greeted with a shower of stones. The U troopers wero overwhelmed bv num- H bers but continued to fight while the UHH eiiine management sent a call to I'n- ffflsfl lorrtown for help. Some 2i additional B state poll, . no il were quickly on their H way. while deputy sheriffs Were hur- ried from nearby points. H They arrived not a minute too soon H for the little band of troopers had been BH hard pressed. some of them being H knocked down and badly beaten. IsBBiifl The crowd was rounded up by the H now force, but It was some minutes be- iiBBH fore tho more belligerent were sub- Lw dued, as tho troopers were not mount- Hl ed. Fiv men in the crowd, armed Blsfl with pistols opened fire on the troop-ers troop-ers and it was reporTd hert- that all of them ahad been captured. Half a (iozn or more of the rioters were more or less seriously hurt one of them being shot. While a great many others Isbbbb showed evidences of tho fight! Il When tho crowd had finally been H dispersed and the troopers hail round- L ed up th ir prisoners they were lead d Hsbbbh Into motor trucks and brought to th-j BH county jal! here. Il |