The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-12
ORDER RESTORED
BY STATE MILITIA
Presence Of Troops Pre-
vents Rioting in
Coal Fields.
ATTEMPTS MADE
TO WRECK TRAINS
Mucklow Death List of Sixteen
Not Changed-Fifty-O Men
in Jail Awaiting Trial--Ad-
jutant-General Elliott in
Personal Command of
Disturbed Section.

| Conditions in the Paint and Cabin
Creek. kanawha County. coal mine dis
| trtcts were quiet tonight. Troops are
| scattered over the territory. and IL is
! not believed further riotinE in the
| strike region Will occur as long as the
| militia is present.
| Excepting unsuccessful attempts to
wreck trains on the Chesapeakc and
Ohio Railroad with dynamite to-day
there have been no developments
! The Mucklow riot death-list OF six
/ teen has not been changed. At least
/ two score are known to be injured
some of them fatally
Thirty-one men. forty-one of whom
are held at Paint Creek Junction. and
| ten In the county Jail in this city, are
awaiting trial by the military com
mission.
The men are charged with riotins
shooting To kill. attempting to dyna
mite trains, or carrying firearms. The
military commission VIII sit Thurs
day.
Elliott in Command.
| Adtutant-GeneralE Elliott at daybrea X
took active command OF the disturbed.
! section Of the Kanawha coal field.
| where almost score OF miners and
guards were killed in yesterdays bat
ties. With n provisional regiment OF
| i've companies he moved out from
| Paint Creek Junction. two being sent
to the Cabin Creek District where the
trouble was expected to-day. and three
under command of Major Thomas d.
Davis. taking the road to Mucklow
where yesterdays fighting was fierc-
! est Orders were issued to clear the
mountains OF armed men. In some
| quarters the opiIson was expressed
| that the miners had retired into the
| mountains and the soldiers would meet
with little opposition. but General Ell
g.,
eventualities
Governor Glasscock. Governor Elect
Hatfield and the Finance Committee
OF the Legislature. now in session here
conferred until late in the morning
concer.sins the situation, and at the
termination of the conference IL be
came known that the commander OF
every military company in the State
had been ordered to hold his men in
readiness for Immediate service. al
thouSh the belief was expressed that
the force now in the field could handle
the situation. The question OF financ-
! ing martial law was thoroughly gone
over and The Legislature is expected
not only TO pay the bills of the last two
declarations of martial law, but TO pro
vide for the latest emergency
one result OF the outbreak II was
stated. would be the introduction into
the. Legislature OF a bill providing for
2 STATE constabulary TO deal with such
'"iSi SHSies dS tHal OF SeAterday. the
opinion being very general that If an
adequate force OF trained men had been
Ola guard the hghtng would not have
occurred. This bill was presented to
The Military Committee recently and
voted down
AT the Adjutant-Generals office this
morning IL was stated efforts to re-
store the telephone and telegraph
wires into the Paint Creek section we're
being made.
Trouble in the mine districts began
in April. 1912. Since that time tbr
| militia has twice invaded the PAINT
Creek anI Cabin Creek districts of Ko
nawha County. The first time martial
law was declared at an end Within
week troops were ordered back into
the strike territory because of rioting
and bloodshed.
They were gradually withdrawn. and
the second proclamation of martial law
was never lifted. Since last Friday 81 :
most a condition of anarchy has pre-
vailed at Paint and Cabin Creeks Pas
senser trains on the Chesapeake and
ohio Railroad have been subjected to
fire. mine guards shot and attempts
made TO apply the torch TO the prop-
erty or the various coal companies In
the two districts
Last Saturday, after a reign OF ter
ror in the strike districts on Friday
night, Governor GlasScock prepared to
DrlnS the Situation before the LcEisla
ture OF West Virginia. now In session
This, however. was not done and Sun
day telegraph wires into the troubled
zone were cut and the mine districts
itit isolated 1t Was reported Sunday
night that Governor Glasscock would
appear before the Legislature Monday
ana insist that some action be taken.
Before this could be done Yesterday
the serious situation arose In the strike
| territory.
Adjutant-General Elliott left Charles
ton last night with two companies of
militia from this city. General Ell
lioit has taken personal charge of the
strike situation. With him are the
members OF the military court who
acted during the last two administra-
tions of martial law. The acts Of the
military commission In sentencing over
two score persons to long terms in the
West Virginia Pcnitentiary were re-
Gently questioned in the State Supreme
Court and the Supreme Court OF the
United States. The military court was
sIphe and at the same time tho va
| lidity of martial law declared by Gov
ernors of States was held to be legal.
| Last night. when conditions became
| critical, Governor GIasscock ordered
out the militia. Within n few hours
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