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THE OHAiCENTER OF ALL TROOP1*£ 4 -s., -i» ,arcMOVEMENTS. SO FAR. IS WARLIKE* * Vm0 *aX*r-V- V’* tt*r# Or.v v.1:? *•€seHof Activities of Soldiers and fRetreatingiMiners Related In Daily Mail RepoiWo,1Sees Many Interesting Thinabllaftr-'} \A..By MARVIN MURPHY Staff Reporter for pic Dally MailMADlSO.N, Sept. 3—(By Telephone) I have iust returned to Madison andj here Ha there is no communicationbetween the two points. j.Many of the bullets surrenderedi were of bum variety. Some of themiffffBl•V i.L lt;■•••■have spent the day reviewing the operations in the Little Coal river valley. 'T' r * . p.yt1in Boone and Logan counties behind the line* of the miners. Five correspondents with whom I started out of Stj^pJbansof federal Troops still are reported missing according to reportstill were tied up in red bandanna handkerchiefs, which contained 200 or 300 shells. All of the rifles were of high power, the kind that kill at a mile. The revolvers were of various! i kinds.Reports were circulated that manyII of the miners who left the territory (■VIOne report states that one of them has around Blair and Sharpies today had1tIci1cf1beenlitoryshot while attempting to get a of the fighting on the Blairfront.|#aat night they were kidding m* because I carry Military pass No. but despite the superstition con-ithhidden their guns in the hills. There was no possible way of verifying the report.Sharpies has had a martial air for. 3MJsome days now, but the martial airnurr,her assigned me, . there today was different from that MUTO been able to view operations ofnectedoflyintisidlt;woiis i*•£troops along the entire Little Coal River valley and to return to Madison tonight, the nearest point at which eomraunication can be had with theworld. lt;The referred to by Mr, Murphy later arrived at Huntington as related elsewhere) It is largely a matter of luck per-entIoutsideheretofore. Over head two airplanes circled, appearing to be almost graz-jnea ing the top of the mountain. In anempty house, military headquarters . . - have been established. Pup tentsor ^ j have been pitched near the little company* houses of the miners. In thelarge buildings at the coal tipple the. tfinap*startediStlngbut dHat Madison,4 when they left hereoclock this morning, e party consisting of three Newon guard ail around the village. The miners assembled there watched with unsurpressed interest the activity ofthe troops. Most of them ventured no comment upon the arrival of the federal troops but some of them seem-occ ta b 1MilnevUniNevof 1 wasSCTork newspaper men, an Indiana j Ingly ostentatiously remarked JUi the jgdl|1 i)11 i men and a woman corres- j presence of army officers that their dent of a press association arrived j men would not leave the front untilthe federal troops went in.Wear Army Uniforms.Some of the miners themselves•re at 10 ocio ck last nigni.Portable typewriters were unboxed end copy ground out to_ be dictated over the telephone for the morning’paper.barb, * UntilTherewore parts of United grates army uniforms. Here was a man with an army shirt and army putees and over-ix o’clock thels morning, the alls, there, one with an army Hat; and correspondent w-alted here for another yet another with army breeches, tfpop train to arrive to take them *ur* At several points aiong the route as ther up the valley towards the fighting the passenger train carrying minersI was detained here to dictate | returned to Madison from Sharpiesthe atory to the Daily Mail for publics- j theminers cheered while the nativestlan yeaterday afternoon. The troop , appeared from their homes and gath-train pulled out and left me. j ertd at little villages platforms. TheO® the next train In, that of the j shouted remark of one old1 seemed to he inwere three news- them_“Ciispit vvh(de t i dow wasI dea^Ifront1fth Infantry which established itsheadquarterswoman unison with many ofpapertionmen seeking news of the aitua-hereCommunicationIrto in c tiedta k iheS|entawonacatereash a i I hope they quit if they have whip- . - . ... . !! ♦»,*, I pelt;* them,” she shouted, meaning \fic-j_r~CMtdUon wm Impoeslb.e because the, tory for (he miner, ..But jf theylstaldidn’t, they will go back later on.”yrlroa were cut. There were no moreAPBMaJ
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Sep 04, 1921
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