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Show UTAH NATIONAL GUARD CALLED Artillerymen and Cavalry Troop Ready to Move Into Strike Zone (Continued from Pn:e One) what he declared attempts to intimidate intimi-date the working miners. GOVERNOR GETS REPORT. A detailed report was submitted In a telegram to Governor Charleys K. Mabey which reads: "Complying with your request details de-tails of shooting Friday evening follow. fol-low. At about 4.15 p m. we heard the firing in direction of No. - mine, at the samo time received a tsle-phono tsle-phono call for help advising us that tho strikers were shooting Into the man trap which at that time wus preparing to leave the portal of tho uppei Mhipe Willi some volunteers, miners from No 1 mine I proceeded to relieve the men under fire. When wo arrived at tho point where the attackers had been in hiding they had dispersed. Wo picked up several empty shells recently fired and took up their trail. 'However, v e followed to a poln' on the mountain toward Willow creek "This morning uir men pointed Out the different places where bullets had struck. One going through a small window in the; hoist house, on passing pass-ing through an empty mine car near where one man was sitting. II OF BULiLETS. "Two mem took cover under a steel water tank where there are evidences of bullets having struck all around them. Three shots in tho barn door, one going inside, struck tho floor at the feet of the barn boss Some of tho men left lun h buckets and started start-ed to run down tho incline. All of them claim bullets fell all around them From intimallon given by the couler header! of our men we estimated es-timated there wero between 76 and 100 shots fired. All of which were it a rather long range. 'About 8 p. m. a phono call supposedly sup-posedly from Helper to one of our Greek employes arlvlsed him that tho next time there would be some- killed. This. 1 think. Is evidence that thero will bo a return of these men or others. oth-ers. . 1 ha placed guards at different points on tho mountain back of our mine The situation has reached a critical point and there is liable to be bloodshed at any moment. Both of our mines are working today, forces normal." |