Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-12
l9 DEAD, 40 HURT
WHEN STRIKERS
FIGHT GUARDS
troops Reach West Virginia
Coal Region Where Situa-
ton Is Tense.

ARtESTON. ". VA, Feb. IL
,,., harrington and F'ayette companies
. 1,+foual Guard arrived at Paint
r-.ak junction this morning to aid in
.-,.intainine order near Mucklow, where
less than sixteen persons We're killed
forty wounded in battle between
...is,rg coal miners on one side and
:,e Guards and railroad police on the
other
eating guns have been placed at all
.o;rts of vantage along the mountain
,r,ss and il is believed the state SOL
..rs will succeed in preserving order.
squads Of soldiers early this morning
rs~a sent to the top of mountains
.rarrooking the town of Ronda, which,
/, was said. the strikers had planned to
attack this morning. but no effort was
made to shoot up the town.
NJ the sixteen known dead, twelve
,rs miners and four officers. A search
&c heing made for others who may have
Inst their lives and of the wounded it
is certain many will die.
Still Hunt Dead.
owing 10 the fact that the strikers
arr carving on a guerrilla warfare, the
4ysa- number of the dead may not be
known for several days. Men have
b4en killed at various points through
mn the entire Paint and Cabin Creek
regions. # is believed some have
dropped at remote points where their
bodies may not be discovered for days,
many perhaps left to die miserably Of
,5ei~ wounds when their lives might
have been saved with surgical atten-
-ton at hand
James Hendrix one of the dead, was
found ON the mountain top overlooking
Ronda with a field glass in his hand
and q rife lying at his side.
VIA was declared to have been a
deliberate attempt to dynamite a train
bearing three companies Of miiitiamen
10 the Paint Creek district to suppress
the disorder there, was discovered to-
DAY and nineteen persons. including J.
r. Parsons one of the Socialist leaders
Of this county and former candidate for
the legislature at the last election. were
arrested.
Dynamite on Tracks.
Guards who preceded the train de-
clare they found 70 sticks Of dynamite
0ejged under the rails and connected
with decorating cap, which the loco
motive would have set off when it
passed over.
The prisoners we're taken TO Paint
Creek junction, where they are being
held under heavy guard. They will be
tried before the military commission.
All trains on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad are equipped with ma
chine guns, which are screwed to the
rear platform of the coaches and
manned at all times for instant use.
so Arrested as Rioters.
Many of the miners are being arrest
cd, charged with lioting, so having been
.aAen into custody today at Mucklow,
where Yesterday an army of striking
miners met a posse captained by Fred
Lester formerly an officer of the Ma
oonai Guard. Today desultory firing
was reported from remote sections, but
IT Is believed the soldiers will be able
10 preserve peace
Governor Glasscock was harshly crit
.GSed by Democratic members of the
sISajure today for his hardness in
'thuug the soldiers to the scene even
after Sheriff Bonner had reported he
Vas unable to control the situation. He
.tuSed TO act even after he had heard
w me killings there, until the finance
g9,Ghnttees of the senate and house of
0slesates assembled in his office and
.'oM.iseo to pay the $4,000 expenses
...V.rgo by sending the troops to the
--L- region last summer and fall