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IiStaff Reporter For The Daily Mail and UnitediPress Man Describe First Day With U. S. TroopTheBv MARVIN Ml'RPHYLDg‘Continued From Page One)!‘Continued From Page One).’ition iIeredheminna2001vere; at a |ious ‘janyt o ryhad ' heretheable. They were expected during the {afternoon, but did not arrive until laterChemical Warfare Ready. Among the soldier* that arrived was a detachment from thechemical warfare section from ICdgewood Arsenal. New Jersey:They were equipped with bombs and grenades containing the newly discovered tear gas, which incapacitates, hut does not permanently Injure. It was not expected their services would beemployed, because the possibilityof hostilities was remote.Boyden R. Sparkes. correspondent the New York Tribune, was slight-offorairthatinesly injured today in making his way into Logan from Blair. On the other side of the ridge. He received a scalp wound and a wound in the leg, but is not confined to his bed.Sparkes, with four other correspondents encountered a party of riflemenraz- near Beech creek, and the shootinganter*enteom-thetheringvereThevlthof[ nored-em-theheirntiloccurred before identity could be established.Tht* other correspondents were .Miss Mildred Morris. o§ the International news service. Harold R. Jacobs, of the United Press. Donald R. Craig, of theNew York Herald, and Maurice Judd, of the New York Sun. None of these was injured.!SCRIBES MISTAKEN*fIvea•myanFORI 4RED NECKS”(Continued from Page One)- !!“Citizen Army” in Logan county. Despite our protests, the two miners j whom we had got into this mess weredetained in Ethel. And all the way down that mountain the wounded one^p.lw-as protesting to me that it wassure 'and(death• tfor him.Not Permitted to 'Phone* as lerapiesivesith-being allowed to reportIInstead of to Eubanks.in custody of a deputy sheriff and hus-hotel. Young Ball wasand I don’t Know howthe miners going out to rescue the w'ounded and obtain the bodies of thedead.Blizzard said he would not advise the miners to abandon their positions as long as the fire upon them continued and their wounded comrades lay in No Man’s Land.While the Daily Mail reporter andthree other newspaper men who were at Sharpies this noon a special train of flat cars carrying about 500 miners left that village en route down the Little Coal river valley away from the fighting regions. They had been at the front and were relieved by re-eruits. »On the trip to Sharpies by automobile the newspaper men saw about 500 miners congregated at Jeffrey, where federal troops were doing patrol duty. The troops did not interfere with the miners congregating. Gatherings of miners also were seen at Clothier and about 200 of them were left at Sharpies after the specialtrain had carried 500 of them downthe valley.The newspaper men returned here late this afternoon on a passenger train from Sharpies. A large number of miners wore aboard. When the train stopped at Madison It was searched by army officers while troops w ith loaded rifles stood guard at either side of the train. A large number of revolvers have been obtained by searching of trains here today.At Sharpies military authorities announce that a few miners have vol-iuntarily surrendered their arms andammunition. The miners came into Madison headquarters and left ammunition without receipts, it was said. Late this afternoon 42 rifles, 15 pistols and 1.000 rounds of ammunition had been surrendered at Sharpies.So far the army has made no effort to go to the scene of the fighting. Ithas been engaged today in establishing military headquarters here, andrhetied off to a taken away, he fared.Snarkea. fearing othereach of us was piAeedi11' Sharpies and Jeffreys. Telephonewires between Madison and Sharpieswhich had been cut were being recation is expected to be established paired this afternoon and eommuni-tonicht.Icorresnond-
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 04, 1921
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