BATTLE WITH I.W.W.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 8

BATTLE WITH I.W.W.

EJECTION FROM TRAIN STARTS RIOT IX WHICH CITIZENS WIN. LE WIGTOWN, Mont. , Sept. 23. About fifty .shots were- .exchanged yesterday afternoon"', between' citizens . of Judith Gap, about forty-five, miles sprithwest of here and' about thirty meirib'ers of the Industrial, Workers of the World. Kenneth Hay, ■■■«■- brakesman, ,was shot, but not seriously wounded ;, a sixteen-year-old boy, member of the gang, was shot." in the leg, while another is in a" serious condition from a bullet wound in the back. • ; . / ? The tro«bl6 arose when the- train crew" ejected members of the gang 1 from a Great Northern freight . train.' The T.W.W. members started shooting, whereupon the' citizens and police force hurriedl}' armed • themselves and in a short time had the rioters under, control. Twenty were placed in jail, while the remainder, escaped. .'; .' „ ■ ■.- . The ■ member of tho gang who opened fire on the tvain crew made his escape, and it is reported that he notified^ members of the order in nearby towns of the incarceration of his fellows." It Avas reported 1 last night . that these members were on the way to 'the scene of the rioting to attempt to' liberate' the prisoners. Sheriff; Tagua has sept a number' of armed deputies to > withstand any assault that may be ''made; *»•"•'■