Arizona republican., 1913-06-15
TURN MACHINE
 GUNS ON TENTS
Shown That Women and Children Took Refug> Behind the Canvas Walls When Rain of Bullets Poured from Coach
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 CHARLESTON, June 14.-About 8 single battle in the coal strike of Paint and Cabin creek districts cen tered today's inquiry by the senate committee investigating the coal mine strike Almost all day the commit tee heard testimony about the attack on Holly Grove, a strikers camp. from an armored train run up into the strike district on February T.
 The committee was astounded at the testimony of Lee Calvin, an eX- mine guard, one of the men on the armored train when the strikers camp was fired upon, and Crisco Els tep, a miner, was killed and Mrs. Annie Hall was wounded. Calvin was called by the attorneys for the miners, and told a sensational story of the attack After relating that he had been chief guard in Cabin Creek and left the district because of the shoot ing there he said that Sheriff Hill and Quinn Morton, a mine operator, met him at Charleston and prevailed upon him to join party going up to Paint Creek on an armored train.
 There were ten or twelve men at tached to the train, said Calvin, and when we got just above Paint Creek Junction they all began getting rifles. They tried to give me rifle, but l told them I had no shooting to do. A brakeman came through the train and turned down the lights. He told us not to raise the windows, but to ] shoot through the windows l was leaning out of an open window as we came to Holly Grove. I saw a stream of fire start out from the baggage car just ahead where the machine guns were mounted. The stream kept up 1 as we went through the place. AS We passed 1 saw three or four ] flashes of fire from the tents"
 Were there any shots from the ! tents before the shooting began from ! the train?" asked Attorney Belcher i for the miners
 | ..F didn't see any, said the wit l ness: T just heard the engine whistle ! blow and the shooting from the train began
 1 The witness said that Quinn Nor i ton was one of the operators on the train. When the train passed the miners camp on the way to Muck low, he said, Morton came running back through the car
 What did he say?' asked Belcher.
 He said. Back up the train and we will give them another round. l He was talking to the sheriff, I'm sure. but I think the sheriff told him something about there being women i and children in those tents, and that he would not shoot"
 Al this statement. Senator Maritime
 of New Jersey almost leaped from ms chair.
 What sort of man is this man
 Quinn Morton?" he shouted. Is he an ordinary American citizen that he
 could order such a thing?"
 Attorneys for the coal operators were on their feet in a moment, and i for a time the committee room was 1 in confusion.
 Morton will be brought before your
 committee," shouted Attorney Jack l son. You will see him and talk with 1 him.
 God help me, then,' remarked Mar | tine.
 Attorneys for the striking miners called about a dozen men and women from the hills to tell the committee about the attack the miners camp at Holly Grove.
 Although the attorneys for the mine Ioperators insisted that they show that the train was fired on before the guns in the armored car were turned loose, and the committee received in to the record the testimony or the men and women of Holly Grove.
 A detailed description of the ar mored train was obtained from Harry Arthur, who was employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, as brakeman on the train. He de
 scribed the shooting and the steel
 which encased the baggage car and the two machine guns mounted so as to give the greatest possible range through the protected doors of the car.
 Mrs. Annie Hall who limped into the committee room told how she shielded three little children from the
 bullets by hiding them in a chimney corner in her little home at Holly Grove when the armored train made it's appearance. She said she had been shot through the foot by bull , let which passed through the bible on her parlor table. Several other
 men and women described the situa- tion at Holly Grove when the armor-
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