Show FIGHT IGHT WITH MINERS A furious fight takes place at the pits WOMEN LEAD THE STRIKERS OH ON the trouble which had been reaching a crisis lira flucht A number wounded CITY kan july 20 the expected crisis crisi sinthe ill the mineral strike came today it was caused by the strikers declining to allow miners who are willing to work to do ao so just before noon noona a band of SOO strikers which had been war marching ching to various strip pits reached the clements pit about a niilo mile south of here being beaded headed by women they sent in a committee toper to persuade the miners to tG quit A refusal was returned and then the entire band of marchers moved on tho the works to force them out the strip men were ready for them and when they passed the trespass line they were fired upon and a general battle followed follow ed iu in which rifles pistols and clubs we reused fortunately nobody was fatally hurt one man one woman and a boy received painful bullet wounds and a number of peo pleon both sides were badly hurt with clubs but no one will die As a result of the battle bat tie the men in the strip were routed by the strikers and forced to flea for their lives pursued by the howling mob the owner odthe of the pit clements his big eon son and a man named 11 hig big di dick c k heed reed are said to be the ones w who 1 did the shooting sho olinc and they have given themselves up and were run out odthe of the county for safe keeping the excitement t cot continued it aued at a high pitch and further blood shed seems inevitable it is rumored a quantity of firearms have been received here tonight The women who were mostly germans and bohemians ians us enter entered etl into the fight more fiercely even than the men they wielded clubs with vigor and precision the sheriff of the county woo is a populist declines to furnish protect protection loi i forthe for the working miners heis lie is in sympathy with the strikers rs owners will now employ guards of their own |