The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-08-20
BL00DY
BATTLE
AT ATHENS.
PROVOST GUARD HALTED BY REG.
uLARs AND THEY DID NOT
LIKE IT.
SHOWED THEIR DISPLEASuRE BY
FIRING AND GUARDs1IEN RE.
TURNED IT.
Corporal Clark, Of the GuaIdsmen Killed
and Several Others Wounded Town
Put Under Martial Law and All Is
Quiet.
By Associated Press.


BY Associated Press
A..hens. Ohio. Aug 2o-A thorough
Investigation Is IN progress to-day Of last
nights trouble when Corporal Clark
was killed.
The coroner is also nraising an inves.
tigsltion.
All il qniet today.
Regular army soldiers. said to be
members 6f the cavalry troop eoneneted
With slae First brigade at Camp Arm,
itage, near this city, attaciled members
of Provost Guard Of patrols made OF
members Of Company D, Fifth Ohio Nat
ional Guard, Cleveland and one man wal
killed and thre wounded, the Iatter all
being National Guardsinen. The reSu
lars escaped wtthout any casualties a.
far as Is known.
Tie. g9lardslilnn killed was Corporal
Charles Clark, whose Aorne IS At War
rem, where the company is located. lie
was 2I years old and q machinist by
occupation.
The wounded are Watson II. Oil
struck on head by a rifle; Albert 6
Head, private, shot IN the left leg; eSr.
seant William blessing struck ON left
hip.
The regulars, who used pistols scat,
tered for clnp. and none of them havc
been unprecedented Fifteen minute.
1fter the shooting. General Dick: in
s1nmngll Of The national gulrdsInen,
md tue regular army officers. had de.
,.laareI @tl.e town arnder martial law, aud
h4i1illretis of regulars were rushed into
tine ciSy, and are now prtroIIing the
streets t. prevent further trouble
Is gathered from soldiers ia camp il
seems chat nearly all the provost
guards sent to town 10 gsotlIer in sol
Hers who have oycr-stny'ed their
fclves. hrve been national guar,l7men.
ind the regulars became possessed of
N idea tiat the poyosts were dis
eliminating against the regulars in
f,tvor of tne giardsmen, arrcs ing the
former and allowing the latter TO g
free, when the miscreants were in srlth
numbers tlat a choice arose Of arrest.
ing either one or the other.
Regulars assembled in Athens in.farct
last night and the provost fr-aan
troop d met a number Of them in front
of the snerifT's residence. near tie
court house. The regulars were halt,
ed and showed fight, The provost
guards dubbed their rifles and then
they claim. the regulars commenced to
shoot. They RETURNED the fire and
more than hundred shots in MI were
fred The battle ended when the reg
ulars run for cnmp after the killing.
No further trcatble is anticipated n'
only regulars are now patroliing The
streets OF Athens.
Sergeant William BLESSING, saot u
the pelvic region, the ba}l lodging i, The
hip, win probably recover.
.lll soldiers have been ordered to re-
main in camp aud passes are forbidden
Guards are patroihng the streets to
day.
By Associated Press.
Cincinnati o.. Aug. 20A Times Stai
Washington special says Secretary Taft
is very much disturbed over the report
ed clash between the militia and regu
lars in Athens He has ordered rigit
investigation into tine matter and al
Immediate report. He calls attention
fo the fact that che regulars in clrryins
side arms disobeyed army regulations
which forbid carrying side arms, e%eep
when ON duty.