Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-06-17

so far as he knew. He says he was
born in Ireland in 1868 and came to
this country with his parents when he
was too young to remember.
SHOOTING UP THE MINERS f
What Senators Are Learning About
West Virginia outrages.
Charleston, w. Va, June IA.
About a single battle in the coal
strike on the Paint and Cabin Creek
districts centred today's inquiry by
the senate investigating committee.
Almost all day the committee heard
statements concerning the attack on
Holly Grove, a strikers camp, from
an armored train which was run up
into the strike district on February ..
The committee was astounded at
the testimony Of Leo Calvin, an ex-
mine guard, who was one OF the men
in the armored train, when the strik-
ers' camp was fred on. Cisco Estep,
a miner, was killed, and Mrs. Annie
Hall wounded. Calvin, called by the
attorney for the miners, told q SEN
sational story Of the attack. AFTER
stating that he had been a "chief
guard" on Cabin creek, and had ieIt
the district because Of the shooting
there, he said that Sheriff Bonner
Hill and Quinn Morton. mine oper-
ator, had prevailed upon him to join
a party going up Paint creek In tn
armored train.
"There were ten or twelve men in
the armored car attached to the
train" said Calvin, land when we
got lust above Paint Creek junction
all Of them began getting rifles ready.
They tried to give me q rifle, but l
told them I had no shooting to DO.
The brakeman came through the
train and turned down the lights.
"He told us not to raise the win
dows, but to shoot right through the
windows. I was leaning out or an
open window and as we came up 10
Holly Creek I saw q stream or hre
start out Of the baggage car where
the machine guns were mounted.
The stream kept UP as we went
through Holly Grove. AS we passed
I saw three or four flashes OF nre
from the tents" --
He did not see any shots from the
tents before the shooting from the
train began.
blow, coot, toot, and the shooting
from the train began. ] am positive
the shooting first began from the bag
gage car"
The witness said that when the
train had passed the miners camp at
Holly Grove, Quinn Morton came run
ming back through the car and shout
Back up the train and we will
give them another round.
T think the sheriff told him
something about there being women
and children up in those tents and
he wouldn't shoot" said the witness.
MARITIME 10 Shocked.
At this statement Senator MARITIME,
of New Jersey, almost leaped from
his chair.
'What sort Of a man is this man,
Paul Morton-I mean Quinn Nor
TONI" he shouted. "Is he an ordi-
nary American citizen that he could
order such a thing?"
The attorneys for the coal opera
tors were on their feet In moment
and for time the committee room
was in confusion.
Mr. Morton will be brought before
your committee" shouted Attorney
Jackson, land you will see him and
talk with him."
God help me then" remarked SEN
ator MARITIME.
The attorneys for the operators
protested vigorously against Senator
Marines remarks and after some
argument they were told by the COM
mittee that they would be given an
opportunity to cross examine CALVIN
and to call witnesses In rebuttal.
''The senator ought not to say
that" said Mr.. Jackson.
~ just can't help It," said Senator
MARITIME.
Pale-faced women and women who
showed traces Of years Of arduous toll
digging coal from the West Virginia
mountains, told the committee their
side of the controversy.
1t was a tale Of peaceful commu-
nifty of happy, contented people,
transformed into theatre OF war,
and the members Of the senate COM
mittee sat back, startled, as witness
after witness told the story Of the
strike.
The attorneys for the striking
miners, in presenting their case, called
about a dozen men and women OF the
hills to tell the committee OF the at
tack on the strikers camp at Holly
Grove.
The attorneys for the mine opera
tors insisted they would show that
the train was fired on from the town
before the machine guns in the ar
mored car were turned loose.
The advent Of the death special,
as the miners termed 1t, or the bull
moose" train, as 1t was called by the
operators, was the principal subject
of the inquiry this afternoon, follow
ing a general condemnation by wit
nesses of the mine guards" who were
brought into the district by the oper-
ators and whom former Governor
Glasscock said he considered the prin-
nipal cause Of the trouble, when he de-
cared martial law.
A detailed description Of the ar
mored train was obtained from Harry
Arthur, who was employed by the
hesapeake & Ohio railroad as q
brakeman on the train.
Mrs Annie Hall, who limped into
the committee room, told the COM
mittee how she shielded her three lit
tie children from the bullets by hid
ing them in the chimney corner OF
her little home at Holly Grove when
the armored train made its appear
ance. She said she had been shot
through the feet by a bullet which
passed through the Bible and hymnal
on her parlor table.
w. B. Buzzard told the committee
that a man with whom he was talking
on a Cabin creek train was shot from
a closet on the car after an argument
with a mine guard. No criminal ac-
ton had ever resulted from the
shooting, so far as he knew. Harvey
S. Campbell, a former special agent
of the Chesapeake & Ohio, said that
he had ridden on the bull moose"
train and had been ordered to shoot
II stones were thrown at the train.
IF you shoot, shoot to kill was
our orders" he said. Romeo Bejett, |