The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-03
VICILANTES AND
 STRIKERS BATTLE
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I | Colo, hospital. Arthur Morrow. 27, Denver, shot in the arm and chest, was treated at Fairplay. Gore Judy, IT, Yuma, Ariz., shot in the hip, W. J. Blalock, 26, Denver, shot in the left shoulder, Bob Deming, 28, Kremmling, vigilante, gashed about the body, all were treated in a Kremmling hospital.
 Myron Donald, state patrolman, reported in Kremmling that he had been informed that two men were killed in one of the battles, but con- firmation was lacking.
 Major Harold H. Richardson, ad- jutant general of the Colorado Na- tional Guard, in personal command of the incoming troops, split his motorized column when he reached Loyeland Pass, an elevated cut through the mountains, and viewed the valley where the $4,000,000 fed- eral dam and tunnel is under con- struction.
 TWO ways OI EntcTlnB He found only two avenues of entrance, both dirt roads winding through the hills. One of the roads along which he dispatched half his troops enters this settlement from the south via the village of Heney- vile; the second road enters via Kremmling from the north.
 It was along the latter road that scores of cars carrying strike sym pathizers from Denver encountered barricades erected by Kremmling vigilantes. They attempted to run through them and battle resulted.
 Hundreds of shots were exchanged between deputized citizens under the command of Sheriff John Lee and the Denver motorcade. Two automobiles managed to break through, 1t was said, and careened wildly through the streets of the town, their passengers firing rifles and pistols.
 The other Denver cars were forced to turn back, some carrying wounded men.
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 When the battle had subsided, Lee augmented his force with hastily summoned ranchers and farmers from surrounding communities. These men, about 10 0in all, then went about barricading every road leading into and out of Kremmling, and continued to patrol both sides of the barricades while awaiting the arrival of one column of Major Richardson's army, expected about 6 @. m. @ a. m. EDT).
 In this settlement, quiet had been restored at least temporarily. The strikers headquarters here was an old frame building housing 8 saloon called by dam workers the bloody bucket" Some 400 men congregated about 1t early this morning. They had already erected barricades at several places along both roads lead- ing to the project to prevent non- strikers getting to 1t.
 The vigilantes dynamited section of the road entering from the north and bridge across the road enter ing from the south. This was done, it was said, to halt the strikers re- Inducements from Denver. Both Groups There
 The motor caravan from Denver, it was said, was composed of mem- bers of both the Congress of Indus- trial Organization and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, with which the five striking unions are affiliated. The men engaged in the battle here, on the side of the strikers, were said to be members of both labor organi- zl tions.
 There appeared to be very little, if any, work going on inside the Green Mountain tunnel, water di- version project being holed around the site of the proposed dam. Engi- neers said that under ordinary work ing conditions the tunnel would have been completed within 30 days.