Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise (Newspaper) - June 23, 1922, Thomasville, Georgia TONIGHT AND Mm next No. FRIDAY JUNE 23, 1922. PER Men Recite Gruesome Story of Mine Battle And Slaughter of While Marching Thru to j of the mine war in ' 27 to 45 persons were killed June 23._HBlf a dozen some of them lying sistent demands from Gov. for on death last night gave an action by the local when Associated Press correspondent the Coroner announced actual eyewitness accounts of the Inquest would held w J and states attorney DeLouis fight Wednesday night and ' stated that a special grand jury which brought be convened following the dozens of casualties when five Duty expressed doubt that sand armed striking miners definite results would be obtain Lester strip near through saying it which was being operated by imported virtually impossible to obtain evt workers and He of the statements the who were among the be- The massacre orthe was that not mine worker ers was the act of a mob which got was but that beyond control of elements the numerous killed were shot down which were attempting to escort the ia cold blood after they had captives to Herrin to them off dered themselves and their to the according to was nothing from the union gained miners to contradict these | The It is finally were Several of the men imported to compelled to yield to the clamors of. work the mine absolved the strikers the mob that the prisoners blame saying that the ones re- and the fleeing men thereupon sponsible were those sent them shot down and beaten to Put on the Who Knew Nothing of the It is Stated and This Was One of Causes of the Fight Against Troops Being Sent Are to Hold Inquest Over 22 Bodies in a Short Not Responsible Says Lewis in OF 111., June 23.errln be no and that miners would not Some of wounded interviewed in were located today after the wi d their homes through secret Wiled and an number of when com- thousand union miners and clerk at the gave the attacked approximately half a account of the His hundred men who were working in story was related as he tossed in pain Strip of the from half a dozen bullet holes through Coal was sent down here by the SHERIFF THAXTON SAYS trend of THERE 18 NO NEED FOR TROOPS he had no idea what ' Marion June 23.Sheriff was running I don't much of Williamson the miners for attacking ty today replied to Gov. Small's we were unknowingly being used quest for an official report on the as dupes to keep them from Herrin mine battle by telegraphing We were given arms when we that the is well in hand a machine gun was set up and that there is no further from the was at one corner of the Guards of and there would be no Seated here early today when June 23.John L. in a statement here that the Mine Workers of were not to any degree responsible for the unfortunate occurrence at said the of which he is president had never encouraged or condoned Lewis had at work among the miners to incite and inflate the spirit of He said the coal had employed thousands of to work the striking that those for the Southern Illinois Mine disorders should to the fullest extent of the was made by Secretary of Labor after consultation with the President M SERVICE FOR 111., June 23.The Har grave Secret Service which ty pien to to guard the Strip this morning announced that they could account for only two A. P. Finley and an unidentified the latter being into an unrecognizable NATIONAL GUARD FOR MINE 111,, June 23.Mobilization of the 132nd Infantry Illinois was ordered by Gov. in a message from to hold Itself in readiness for duty in the Southern Illinois mining gan Arms and were distributed to the gathering STRIKE BY June 23. One of the who the Strike Vote is Tallied By Next These Matters Will Not Be Heard in The Say Reports From Associated 111., June 23Thirty charges against a score of railroads for alleged illegal of railway to avoid wage orders of the United States Railroad Labor may go without next Monday when the are if the results of the strike vote is determined before that shop workers are now voting on a strike preposition Including of farm ing car and to employes they have been deprived of seniority rights and lose their privileges and rates of pay abd work conditions established by road agreements and by the Labor Men and One Woman Were Arrested in Raids Made the Gty Last According to House of Commons Will Take Up the IWA Question on Says Conspiracy Of Widespread Nature Believed to Have June 23.The the Marshall have the possession of the Central News a conspiracy to take and conduct a of a number of ARRESTS IN June 23.-Fifteen men and one woman were arrested in raids throughout last night In connection with the assassination of Field Marshall Sir Henry it was announced in the House of today by Austen stated that every step possible was being taken for the protection of life in England and and Intimated that a discussion of Irish affairs would be held n wm OPEX IN BELFAST June 23.The ation here was one of great owing to the high state of feel ing over the assassination of Field Marshall Wilson at military forced to fire mobs several and the casual ties by were six wound ed. Virtually every member of Ulster government is under police ting fang de in china this of Loyal Legion Says States Should Histories That Conform to Facts But That This is a with us all of the time need for most of the guards were tough fellows sent by a Chicago detective I understand the miners sent us warning tjf leave the town or we would TO SEND TROOPS INTO MINE SAYS 111., June 23.Director of the State Department a pool room without a hat or A crowd gathered but the lice took charge of him and spirited him out of town and told him to perhaps over long distance telephone this morning advised bosses When we saw approaching Wednesday after- in a bad thing to send troops into Herrin at this time and that he was wiring Gov. we did not know what to The guards prepared for Most of us workers wanted to the night the bullets rained in on We sought shelter TOTAL NUMBER DEAD 22; as best we The miners NUMBER ELEVEN upon the coal piles and earth 111., June 28.States and we were unable to Attorney Duty of Williamson The guards kept but telegraphed Gov. Small today that the most of UB Then the miners blew list of dead at Herrin stood at 22 up our pumping We had eleven and our food supplies were in a ORDER freight car in the hands of the on D. IN Have Only a Few So Be Sure to Get Also all that pleasure in the Race SMALL ORDERS 1,000 MOBILIZED AT 111., June 23.Gov. Small last night ordered 1,000 state troops mobilized at once and held der arrangements to be sent to Herrin if midnight last night the Governor telegraphed Gen. adjutant to assemble the One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry and the machine gun companies of the One Hundred and Thirtieth and One Hundred and Thirty-first Infantries With such other companies as necessary to make a of at least 1,000 men and hotld them at the One Hundred and Thirty-First Infantry to be moved under further orders from Governor directed that the troops should be given full field He told Gen. Black that he was reliably advised that life and property are in jeopardy in of Williamson 1 o'clock the Governor telephoned Sheriff Thaxton demanding an immediate reply telegram asking for information about the insisting upon action for the apprehension of the men who are reported to have killed twenty-six or more workers and notified the sheriff that troops are being held in June 23.Mrs. A. President of the Dames of the Loyal stated here today that the organization would urge and educational societies to press their campaign against the use in the schools of any of histories that do not to to the declaration in the report adopted by the convention ol tht Confederate Veterans at that the Civil War was by Abraham and that histories teaching this should be used in the she said the assertion was a of and that all patriotic societies should seek suppression of any such BEFORE THE D. June 23.The of Lawson J. to he postmaster at and opposed by Senator Is understood to have been favorably reported to the Senate by the OFFER ATTACKED D. June 23.Henry Ford's offer for Muscle was attacked again today by witnesses testifying before the Senate agricultural Phillip mer law officer in the Forestry declared he never seen a proposition made to the government as as TO RATIFY Associated June 23.For the first the history of Japan's interactional she will take Initiative in acting on a without waiting tor other powers to lead the Present plans call for all armament and Pacific agreements to ratified by July Associated June 23. former minister to Wash and more foreign minister for Sun Yat in the disrupted Canton government died at Canton this according to a was an outstanding figure in the politics and jurisprudence of for many and remained at last loyal to Sun Yat and was believed to have fled to with The Reuter dispatch gave no s. dispute growing in KILLED WHEN STREET Associated W. June 23.-^7/0 were killed and a deputy sheriff and a dozen were wounded when a mob attacked a street car apd officers of the Hudson Coal guarded by deputies from this city to the Lewis mine near this The mine opened on the open shop basis Associated D. June 23A compromise by which the States will arbitrate difficulties arising from the of the clause of the treaty of appeared today to be gaining favor among both the Chilean and Peruvian representatives in the Washington indicated to be the intention to keep the negotiations in an and unofficial stage until both the Chileans and Peruvians had shown a readiness to accept the compromise Bames and Jock son Gime In With Otic and Two Points to the Rear of Hagen in the Associated June 23.Walter' American professional won the British open Jhe final scores of Americans Hagen 800; Barnes 301;'Jock Hutchison 302. gompers re-elected head of a. f. of l this morning for the forty-first S. NEED NOT 0-, June 23.Samuel was re-elected without opposition as president of the American Federation of Labor ' It was his forty-first election to the vice presidents were In a Daniel of president of the teamsters union was re-elected treasurer over Joseph of Kansas Frank Morrison was re-elected without may be captured Associated June 23.The county authorities expected early to have under arrest within n few the two assailants of Mrs. Bertha who was bound and gagged as she Stepped from the door of her WAT DEBT home at Buckhead early June 23.The to the front of the church States should take Its part in re- joining her Her condition ASSAULT CASE June 23.Taking testimony begun today in the trial of Russell charged with attacking an eleven yaer old while they were attending a religious convention The was packed and special deputies maintained TO PROBE Associated D. June 23. for the Senate investigation into the gasoline price moved forward a step with the employment by the manufacturer's of Gilbert of as counsel and decision by the committee to submit to all oil interests on and oil MEN BLOWN TO Associated East 0-, June 23.Two were blown to and three houses on the outskirts of were wrecked today when nitroglycerine being transported by automobile HUNG AT Associated June 23George Ho weili to his deith today protesting his Innocence In connection with the killing of R. L. a private world affairs and to do this it Is not necessary to cancel the eleven billion dollar foreign declared Thomas B. of President of the American Association In an address today before the Illinois encouraging MURDER CASE NEW Associated Los June 23.Absolutely new evidence was promised today by the prosecution at the MAY miMP Associated It is to consist D. 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