The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-21
ANOTHER FIRE IN THE HART FORD MINE FIELD IS ONLY
 NEW DEVELOPMENT.
TWO BODIES ARE FOUND
Burned and 5ackened Corpees Are Discovered in Building Where the Prisoners Were Reported to Have Been Shot and Killed.

Fort Smith, Ark, July 20.-Today's s
 developments in the mine situation
 at Prairie Creek in this county where
 lUO non-union miners were driven out
 last Friday after six hours pitched
 battle with high power rifles are up
 to eight o'clock are:
 Pink Dunn, George Burnett and
 Liyod Claybourne, said to be union
 miners made $250 bonds to appear in
 federal court in this city August 3, to
 answer charge of contempt in violat-
 ion of injunction against interference
 with the Mamoth Vein Coal Mine com | pany property or employees.
 ] Today Lon Norris, sheriff of Sebas-
 tan county, arrested Charles Black l bourne and Bee Trout and confined
 them in the county jail at Greenwood ! charged with riot, murder an arson. This morning at ten o'clock the grand jury at Greenwood, under in
 structions of Circuit Judge Daniel Hon | commenced an investigation of the fight of last Friday between a hun dred non-union miners at Prairie | Creek mine No. and two hundred men, declared to have been, union
 miners Under the direction of State Prosecuting Attorney Paul Little nearly thirty warrants were sworn out
 in circuit court against parties still
 at large hut charged with riot and arson. The sheriff has sworn in a number of special deputies who are out after these men who represent participants on both sides of the bat tie. The union miners charge that the non-union men fired the mine on abandoning it Eight additional in- formations were filed today in federal court charging violation of the injunc- tion and warrants were placed in the hands of Marshall Parker for service. At II o'clock today, M. B. Wiley, superintendent of the Coronado mine at Arcoal, near the Prairie Creek mine while at dinner at his home two hun dred yards distance, discovered that the head house of the mine was on fire. The mine has not been worked since last March, and the superin- tendent was alone. Before the fire died down, the head house, tippled and engine and boiler house, black smith shop, slack wash house and its engine house, and the mine supply mouse were totally destroyed. Loss estimated by Mir. Wiley, $50,000 to $75, GOO. The property was insured.
 Superintendent Wiley stated to the Southwest American that upon rush. ing to the fire which was then con fined to the headhouse he found a lard bucket lying at the foot of the mine tpple. 1t had been full of coal oil which had been poured upon the building and then set on fire. He said he did not see any persons about the mine previous to the fire.
 Officials of the Mamoth Vein Min ing company say that there were still
 six of their employees unaccounted for
 beside the two believed to have been killed during the battle on Friday by squad of the attacting party. whose prisoners they were. Of the other ten who were missing all have bee ac- counted for.
 Edward Cunningham, a vice bresi-
 dent of the United Mine Workers, stated today that he had been advised that a wage agreement had been reached at Kansas City by representa-
 tives of the Mine Workers organiza-
 tion for the Southwestern district,
 which comprises Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma and representative of the | owners. This information Cunning
 ham declared was given him by mem-
 bers of the minerscommittee now in
 Kansas City where he declared con tract for the ensuing year would be signed tomorrow This would pre-
 clude, it is pointed out, a spread of
 the strike, now confined to the Hart ford valley fields. The Bache-Denman interests, against whom the strike is
 in effect. were not parties to the Kan sas City conferenc"
 A statement was issued today hy officials of the district crganizatiins