Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-06-11
PLENTY OF MACHINE GUNS
BOTH THE MILITIA AND THE
PAINT AND CABIN cREEKERs
WERE WELL ARMED
PERSONS CAUGHT AT UNLAWFUL
PRACTICES WE'RE SENTENCED
BY SOLDIER COURT

Charleston, w. Va, June 11.-lndus-
trial war in West Virginia was today
described to the senate mine strike
investigation committee by Adjutant
General Charles d. Elliott, who told
in graphic fashion of battles fought
between mine guards and strikers at
Mucklow and Holly Grove, in the
Paint and Cabin Creek section. He
told of armored trains carrying ma
chine guns that swept through the
strike district and shot down all who
sought to stop them
At least a score of slirmishes were
detailed by him, in nearly all of
which men were killed or wounded
General Elliott told OF the captu1
by the state troops Of six machine
guns, each capable of firing $50 shots
minute, and 10000 rounds Of am.
munition. He identified photographs
of sheet iron fort built by mine
guards at Mucklow and told Of the
capture of hundreds of man killing"
guns, many of them hidden OUT in
the hollow trees and mountain caves
after the militia took charge of the
strike district.
Trains held up, mine tipples burned,
pitched battles bewteen mine guards
and miners, were all detailed by Gen
eral Elliott, who said that all Of these
affairs were reported to him. He de-
tailed a general engagement at Muck
low, Holly Grove, on Paint Creek, and
Ronda, Cabin Creek, on February 10,
when a mine bookkeeper and a miner
named Estep were killed. This re-
suited in a second declaration Of mar
tial law, and General Elliott said
that when he went into the field with
troops on the night of February TO-.
dynamite bomb was found on the
railroad track ahead Of the troop train.
All of these affairs were between
mine guarsd and strikers" said the
general. "The militia had nothing to
do with them, and l know Of them
only through information brought to
me by both sides"
General Elliott gave the committee
documents showing the operations Of
the military which took charge Of the
strike district during the first martial
law period, and showing the disposi-
ton made Of prisoners.
Adjutant General Charles D. Ell
liott, of the West Virginia militia,
who was in supreme command in the
strike zone during the martial law
periods, produced today before the
senatorial committee from Washing
ton investigating conditions in West
Virginia at that tlme, documents
which showed that 81 men were sen
fenced by the military court Pri-
vate. f l. Long, tried for the muir
der Of ira Ridd, was acquitted by
the court
Robert Hartigan, 4 mine guard
charged with doing police duty as a
nonresident Of the state, was sen
fenced twice, according to the tes-
timony, each time to pay a fine Of
$500 and to serve six months in pris-
on. IN another similar sase, a guard
was fined $500 and sentenced to 60
days.
Other sentences shown by the list
were:
For intimidation Of workmen, 50
prisoners, six months each.
Carrying concealed weapons, two
prisoners. one day; five prisoners,
six months; one prisoner, $1,000 fine
and one year; one prisoner one year,
Carrying steel knuckles, one pris-
oner fined S5o
Unlawful stabbing, two prisoners,
one year
False statements to officers, one
prisoner. % days.