The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1922, Page 10

meose smocee? . sm tt Sipe een eat tt ate AD i | CHICAGO, OWL GUARD | MOTHERS, WITH CHILDREN IN ARMS, ARE MILLE BY MOB IN MINE WARFARE MOBILIZED FOR DUTY NMI WA riff Telegraphs Governor ‘Trouble Is Over and Troops Are Not Needed. June 28 (Associated ens),—Mobilization of the 1824 In- ntry of the Tiiinols National Guard, dered by Gov. Len 3majl in a mid- fight message from Waukegan to d itself in readiness for duty in Southerm Illinois mining region, n early to-day. Gov. Small’s order was relayed from djt, Gen, Carlos E. Black at Spring- a to Col. William £, Swanson, pmmandant here of the 132d, who set motion the machinery for assem- ‘Bling troops. Nine machine gun com- nies were included in the order and 132d Infantry also hes a how- tzer company. | MARION, Il, June 23. Associated s)—Sheriff Melvin Thaxton of (Iliamson County, to-day replied to ov. Smail’s request for an official re~ of the Herrin mine battle by “the situation Is is no danger of and there is no lune 23 (Associated ).—Official investigation of the Ine war began to-day in response insistent demands from Gv. Smal! sigan choy From ies olin Page.) as we Poor ig es ‘The miners climbed upon the coal piles and earth em- bankments and we were unable to seo them. “The guards kept firing, but most of us bid. Then the miners blew up our pumping station. We had no water and our food supplies were in freight car im the hands of the miners. About sunrise we put up the white flag, The miners poured ie and we surréndéred our arms. “Up to this time not one of us had been injured that I know of, although 1 understand that several of the miners bad been shot. The miners spread out quickly and tied us to- gether In groups*of three and six. ‘The tied men then were rushed off in different directions. Some of them tried‘to run, but they were shot down as fast as they moved, “One miner asked who was the ma- chine gun operator. Some one pointed him out and he was shot in his tracks and his body laid over the machine gun. “They tied five men with me, took us out on the road and told us to run. We ran and hundreds of bullets lowed us. We staggered on, but ally three of our group fell, pulling crs with them, “abe bullet were in me al lay there while ten! came up and fired more shots into us from three or four eet. Then everything went black. I woke up later and begged for water, but there was not run out those scabs at the mine I joined them and others kept joining us until there must have been 5,000. Most of us were armed and those who were not soon got their guns. When we got to the ming we spread out around it Wo had no real lead- ers, every one was working for bim- self. It was just one big mob out to get the men who were running the mine. I am not sure who fired the first shot, but after that it was real war. The fire kept up for hours, [ guess, and several of our men were bit. “Late in the evening I was shot In the arm. The wound was not serious and I walked back to where a group of our men were standing and they sent me here in a car. JT was not there, but 1 understand most of the killing was done after the mine sur- rendered, I'm sure some of those seabs really were innocent men. It's just the old story of a mob getting started,” Other miners confirmed Morris's statements. An inquest into the carnage wrought was set for to-day. However, until late last night no official step to in- vestigate the affair had been taken, no grand jury had been summoned and no arrest had been made, Miners in Herrin streets openly boasted that they participated in the infliction of deaths by gunfire, hang- ing and dragging through the streets in a veritable Roman holiday, but there was no action against them. ‘That the death ist would be in- creased to-day seemed to be the con- sensus of opinion. Fifteen bodies were weighted about the necks and cast into a pond, a miner told a cor- respondent for the Associated Press, and the area over which killings oc- curred was estimated at fifteen square miles of hilly, timbered land, The statement of Frank President of the Ilinois branch of the United Mine Workers of America, \s- sued at Cincinnati, that his informa- tion indicated forty-four men had beon killed was interpreted as mean- ing that the entire number of be- sieged strikebreakers had perished. WEST FRANKFORT, It., June 23 (Associated Press)—Four Mexicans, believed to have been among the non- union miners operating the Strip mine of the Southern Coal Company near Herrin, were found here this morning and were forced to leave town by a crowd of several hundred men. Later one of the Mexicans was found dc.d. He had apparently committed suicide. CINCINNATI, ©., June 28 (Asso- ciated Press).—John L, Lewis, in a statement here to-day, declared “the United Mine Workers of America is not to any degree responsible for the unfortunate occurrence at Herrin, Ni." He said the organization of which he is President never en- couraged or condoned lawlessness, “Sinister influences” Mr, Lewis de- clared, had been at work among the miners “to incite and inflame the Illinois, John Wilkinson, Pres! JUNE 23, spirit of violence.” Coal companies, he asserted, had employed “thousands of detectives” to work among the striking miners. Mr. Lewis declared that his mes- sage to State Senator Snead at Her- rin saying that the men working at were strikebreakers did ‘any reference or connec- tion with the disturbance.” “The organisation has never en- lessness of any character,” Lewis said. “The officers of the or- ganization are shocked and greatly deplore this tragedy. We are not, however, unmindful of the fact that sinister influences have for some time been at work among our mem~- bership to incite and inflame the spirit of violence.” pena nes NN MINE UNION PRESIDENT BLAMES SLAYINGS ON UNION OFFICERS IN ILL, MUSKDGEB, Okla., June 23.—Blame for the Herrin coal field killings rests largely upon miners’ union officials of mt of 1922, District 21, United Mine Workers of America, declared here to-dey,. Mr ‘Wilkinson said: “Thingy like this don't happen over~ night. They are the result of days and weeks of fermentation. 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