The Detroit times., 1913-06-14
hers Widow Details How Hus.
band Was Shot Down With
out Cause BY Guards I'm
ported BY Operators
EDERAL REMEDY AND
MINE TRUST, QUESTIONS
Id Armed Guard Been Kept
Out, Warfare Would Not
Have Resulted
ny JOHN T.. NEvIN.


n ~sRPesDondent OF the United Press
HARLESTON. w. Va, June a.
real sufferers when the men strike
be women who cheer their hus-
ds, comfort starving children, and
r their burdens in Spantan-like 81.
ce-are telling their side to the
ate strike investigation committee
Charleston. The actual conditions
{ existed are being revealed from
lips Of the women and men who
ticipated In the strike. II ia not a
tty story. II differs little from
d. but all agree there that there
e been serious hardships. Some
the witnesses are garbed In black
omen whose husbands died in
ht even the dignifed senate com
tee now agrees was actual war
!"
II today's witnesses are being hur-
through their testimony, because
committee wants to get through
b this phase 30 that next week It
hear the side OF the coal COM
les. The ants, representing the
at coal companies controlling the
In and Paint Creek districts. say
the stories now being told are
true. And the committee will give
m their opportunity to refute the
OF the miners next Monday.
he witnesses for the miners today
ped that the armed mine guard
BED all Of the trouble. Had they
3 kept out. they said, there would
q been little rioting. And this IL
q the chief points Of the inquiry
SAS ssnAtors are very anxious TO
nly the problems Of what caused
conditions: whether there can be
Rderal remedy therefor. and wheth-
the big corporations of the state
q great interlocking trust, as al
I'D by the miners leaders, are left
be settled by the senators. The
will be out Of the way by Monday
ht, and the committee would like
get the second completed by Tues
or Wednesday at the latest.
10 very likely that Senator Ken
who is in charge Of the inquiry
actual conditions. will not end
probe by merely listening to the
limony. Instead he will very
badly return here unanonunced,
penetrate Paint and Cabin Creeks
hout a guide, to see whether the
ceful pastoral scenes displayed to
committee yesterday are real or
Example Of the scene painters art.
addition Senator Kenyon has asked
officials to furnish him with tho
ords OF the ownership of the land
the state; the capitalization and
hership of stock; names OF off,
ID, etc.
typical OF the entire line Of testi-
by developed was the story OF the
low OF Cisco Estep. killed when
operators armor train fired on
strikers camp at Holly Grove.
:. Estep told the committee that
and her husband, with some OF
boys" who had dropped In to
hg and play" during the evening,
10 seated In the living room OF
ir house q little distance from the
lkers camp. when the armored
Ia slid up the creek through the
{ht.
I'VE heard the shots outside" she
b, and my husband told me had
Tier get into the cellar. He went
the front door. and. with my baby
Rmy arms. went toward the back.
- had to 90 to the side OF the house
u net into the cellar. When got
the back door. could just see the
II of my husband In the dark. He
~ calling me. A minute later /
'afd a bullet hit him and he fell. /
j not know he was dead until the
boting was al lover, and the boys
lied to him and he wouldn't an
ler."
fhe little woman OF the hills car
Ia in her arms a little baby, born
q strikers camp in the mountains
10 months after a machine gun bull
enteded it's fathers life. Her
lry visibly impressed the commit