The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-26
CODY
Bat Tie
AIT ATHENS
PROVOST GUARD HALTED By REG.
ULARS AND THEY DID NOT
LIKE IT.
SHOWED THEIR DIsPLEAsURE BY
FIRING AND GUARDSMEN RE.
TURNED 1T.
Corporal Clark, Of the Guardsmen Killed
and Several Others wounded Town
Put Under Martial Law and All Is
Quiet.
By Associated Pres.

By Associated Press.
Athens, Ohio, Aug 2O-A thorough
investigation Is in progress today Of last
nights trouble when Corporal Clark
was killed
The coroner Is also making an inves
tigation..
Al is quiet today.
Regular army soldiers, said to be
members of the cavalry troop conencted
with tae First brigade Mt Camp Arm.
itage, near this city, attslclSed members
Of Provost Guard OF patrols made Of
members of Company D, Fifta Ohio Nat
ional Guard, Cleveland, and one man, wst
Killed and thre wounded, the iatter ali
being National Guardsmen. The regI
lars escaped without any casualties n
far as Is known.
The gnardsman killed was Corporal
Charles Clark, whose home is at War.
rem, where the company is located. He
was 81 years old and maraiinist by
occupation.
The wounded are Watson II. Oil
struck on head by rifle; ALBERT G
Head, private, shot in the left leg; eSr.
geant William Blessing, struck on left
hip.
The regulars, who used pistols, scat
tered for camp, and none of them have
been apprehended. Fifteen minutes
after the shooting General Dick, in
command of the national guardsmen.
and the regular army officers, had de.
clared the town under martial law, and
hundreds of regulars were rushed into
tine city. and are now patrolling the
streets to prevent further trouble.
AS gathered from soldiers in camp it
seems that nearly all the provost
guards sent to town to gather in sol
diers who have over-stayed their
leaves, have been national guardsmen.
and the regulars became possessed of
tn idea that the povosts We're dis.
eliminating against the regulars in
favor OF tine guardsmen, arresSing the
former and allowing the latter to go
! free, when the miscreants were in such
numbers that choice arose OF arrest
ing either one or the other.
Regulars assembled in Athens in force
last night and the provost from
troop d met number of them in front
of the sneriff's residence, near the
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 a hundred shots in all were
fired. The battle ended when the reg
ulars nan for camp after the killing.
No further trouble is anticipated as
only regulars are now patrolting the
streets of Athens.
Sergeant William Blessing, saot in
the pelvic region. the ball lodging in the
hip, will probably recover.
All soldiers have been ordered to re
main in camp and passes are forbidden
Guards are lpatrolling the streets TO.
day.
BY Associated Press.
cncinlnti. o., Aug. 2o--A Times star
Washington special says Secretary Inf;
is very much disturbed over the report
ed clash between the militia and rsgu,
lars in Athens. He has ordered rigid
investigation into the matter and an
immediate report. He calls attention
TO the fact that the regulars in carrying
side arms disobcyed army regulations
which forbid carrying side arms, except
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