Original sentence: Believing their women and children to have been "wantonly slaughtered" by the militia, 700 to 1,000 inflamed strikers "attacked mine after mine, driving off or killing the guards and setting fire to the buildings.President Woodrow Wilson sent in federal troops.The fighting ended only when U.The troops disarmed both sides (displacing, and often arresting, the militia in the process) and reported directly to Washington.This conflict, called the Colorado Coalfield War, was the most violent labor conflict in U.history; the reported death toll ranged from 69 in the Colorado government report, to 199 in the investigation ordered by John D
Edited sentence: 700 to 1,000 inflamed strikers "attacked mine after mine, driving off or killing the guards and setting fire to the buildings.The fighting ended only when US president Woodrow Wilson sent in federal troops.The troops disarmed both sides (displacing, and often arresting, the militia in the process) and reported directly to Washington, DC.This conflict, called the Colorado Coalfield War, was the most violent labor conflict in US history; the reported death toll ranged from 69 in the Colorado government report, to 199 in the investigation ordered by John D