The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-15
Armored Train Is Used
to Shoot Up Miners
Camp.
COMMITTEE HEARS
STARTLING STORY
Senators Are Told of Attack on
Holly Grove, When Machine
Guns Were Turned Loose
on Cluster of Cabins in
Mountains of West
Virginia.

Charleston. W. Va. June I4-About a
single battle in the coal strike region
on Paint and Cabin Creek districts cen
tired to-day's inquiry by the Senate in
NestlgatinB committee. Almost all day
the committee heard statements con
corning the attack on Holly Grove "A
strikers camp. from an armored train
which was run up into tho strike dis
trict on February 7.
The committee was astounded at tho
testimony OF Lee Calvin an ex-mine
guard who was one of the men in the
hrmored train whom the strikers camp
vas fired on Cisco Estep "A miner
was Killed, and Mrs. Annie Hall wound
Calvin. called by the attorneys for
the miners. told n sensational story Of
the attack. After stating that he had
been chief guard on Cabin Creek.
ana had left the district because of
INC shooungs there. he said that
Sherif Bender Iill and Quinn Morton.
mine operator, had prevailed upon
MN TO Join party going up Paint
creek In the hrrnored train.
Get Rifles Rcndy.
There were ten or twelve men IL,
the armored car attached 10 the train
said Calvin. and when We got iust
above Paint Greek Junction, all OF them
began getting rifles ready Thcy tried
20 give me a rif!e but I told them
n
came through the train and turned
down the lights
lie told us not TO raise the win.
dows. but 10 shoot right through the
WINDOWS. Was leaning out Of an
open window. and as We cam. nm ~
holly Grove. saw a stream Of mr.
start out of the baEgag. car. wher.
t"e nachln. guns were mounted The
stream Kept up az we went through
Holly Grove.
~ We passed saw three or four
A"sAes Of lire from the tents"
liz did not see any shots from, ,b.
tShh bstoie the shooting began from
the train
u Just heard the engine whistle
20" TOOL toot, and the shooting from
car"
The witness said that when the train
Mau PASSED the miners camp at Holly
Grove quinn Morton came running
back through the car and shouted
Back up the train and we viii give
them another round"
think the sheriff told him some
thins about there being women and
oh'iaten up IN those tents and he
wouldn't shoot" said the witness
Al this statement Senator M,,,i,o
OF Nc" Jersey, almost leaped from his
chair. ''''
What sort OF man is this man
i'"i norton mean Quinn Morton? -
he shouted. is he an ordinary Areri
can citizen. that he could order s,,cb
q thing"
The attorneys for the coal operators
We're on their feet in moment. and
Tor time the committee room was in
confusion.
MIR. Morton will he brought before
Your committee shouted Attorney
Jackson. and you will see him and
talk with him"
God help me. then" remarked Sen
ator MARITIME.
Attorneys Protest.
The attorneys for the operators pro-
tested vigorously against Senator Mar
unes remarks. and after some argu-
ment, they were told by the committee
,hat they would be given an oppor-
tunity TO cross examine Calvin and 10
call witnesses in rcbuttal
The Senator ought not to say thar"
said Mr.. Jackson.
I Just can't help it," said Senator
MARITIME.
Pale faced women and men who
showed traces of years OF artuous toll
digging coal from the West Virriria
mountains. told the committee their
side Of the controversy
II was a tale OF a peaceful community
OF happy, contented people transform,
ed into n theatre of war, and the ne'n
Ders or the Senate committee sat bncl,
startled. as witness after witness told
the story of the strike
= Inc attorneys for the striking min
crs in presenting their case called
about dozen men and women of tho
hills to tell the committee of tn, at
tack on the strckers' camp at Holly
Grove
The attorneys for the mine operators
insisted they would show that the
train was fred on from the town be-
fore the machine guns in the armored
car were turned loose
The advent of the death special"
rs the miners termed It, or the Bull
Moose" train. as II was called by the
operators was the principal subject
or the inquiry this afternoon follow
ing n general condemnation by wit
ncsscs of the mine guards who were
brought into the district by the opera
tors. and who former Governor Glass
cock said he considered the principal
cause OF the trouble, when he declared
martial law
\ detailed description Of the armored
train was obtained from Earry Arthur,
who was employed by tho Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad as a brakeman on
the train.
Woman Shot Through Feet.
Mrs. Annie Hall. who limped into the
committee room, told The committee
how She shielded her three little chill
drcn from the bullets b. hiding them
In the chimney corner of her little
home at Holly Grove when the armored
train made It's appearance She said
she had been shot through tho feet
by n bullet which passed through the
Bibie and hymnal on her parlor table.
w. b. Buzzard told the committee
that man with whom he was talking
on Cabin Creek train was shot from
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