STRIKE RIOTS.
CABLE NEWS (United Frets Associationr—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)')
FICHTMfC IN AMERICA.
MANY MINERS KILLED
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW 7 YORK, October 18. It is reported from Trinidad, Colorado State, that anarchy prevails throughout the mining regions. Deputies arretted a gang of <-.tiikers, alleged to be involved in an attack on strike breakers. They marched them thirty miles across country. They overawed them by means ot a machine gun. Despite this a body of aimed :n tiers attempted to rescue them. Some shooting followed, and, later, when an unarmed deputy entered the strikers' camp with the object of parleying with them and carrying a white flag, the miners shot him dead. The deputies thereupon turned the machine guns loose, killing many of the miners. - A battle is proceeding. The militia have been despa r eheu to the scene.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 5
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140STRIKE RIOTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 5
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