Arizona republican., 1917-07-14
WILL HANDLE MEN
 DEPORTED TO NEXT
 STATE AT COLUMBUS

O ! A G A LULU MD U D
 (Continued from Page One) as is shown by the investigation made of their residences yesterday morning during the time they were being ap- prehended and searched.
 About o'clock on the morning of the twelfth rounding up of the men on strike began. The strikers were members of the Industrial Workers of the World and the International Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers union.
 Men from Bisbee. Lowell, Warren and Douglas and the country adjacent thereto, to the number of 2200 mostly armed with rifles and revolvers and some with clubs, assisted in the work of the roundup. Most of them were business men and clerks and some were men who refused to go out on strike. They visited all the homes of the district wherever a striking miner was known to be and took him out
 Some of the miners were treated without any show of vio.ence by the men taking them from their homes While in other instances the men were forced at the point of a gun to leave their homes and in many instances their wives and families.
 They were then marched in line through the town of Lowell to the War ren ball park in Warren, an approxi- mate distance of three miles, They were herded by gunmen with an auto mobile which carried a machine gun. This machine gun was trained on the miners.
 There was no resistance on the part of the miners so far as I observed After the first shock was off the men seemed to take their plight good naturedly.
 Fill 24 Freight Cars
 The men were entrained on A cars waiting on siding near the park. Cat tie cars and box cars were used for this purpose.
 As each man approached the train he was forced to walk between a gauntlet of armed men and in some in stances with the guns pointed toward him. He was asked whether he was willing to go back to work or not. If he said he would go back to work he was turned loose and allowed to mingle with the armed guards.
 "A few agreed to go back to work. The rest were entrained. It took about an hour and half to get all the men aboard. About noon the train was started toward New Mexico. On top of each car were a large number ot armed guards and along the railroad tack for miles the train was accom- panied by automobiles with men hold ing glrs .Ixed upon the railroad cars.
 Many of the cars had sufficient Wa ter during the trip but in a number of them the water surply gave ntlr be- tween 8 and 1 o'clock in the afternoon. On the way to Columbus when the train was stopped the guards, 1S6 in number, would permit the men to leave the train and go to other cars to get a drink of water but on the return trip from Columbus this permission was not accorded
 We arrived at Co oumbus between 930 and 10 o'clock last night and left about midnight, arriving at Hermanas about o'clock this morning.
 During the ride back the men in the car I was in had no water from the time we left Columbus until we reached Hermanas. This was a box car which was overcrowded, making it impossible for all of the men to sit down on the floor at tie same time. Many were forced to stand for ho1rs at a tire. letting the weaker men sit
 When we arrived at iermanas we were not allowed the privilege of leav- ing the train for necessary relief and a number of shots were fired from the roofs of the cars for purposes of in timida tion.
 Left to their Fate
 There was much walking on top of the cars by the guards and then sud- denly comp etc silence. At first the men thought it might be ruse to have some of them attempt to leave the cars in order to give an excuse for shooting but the quiet continuing we investigated and discovered we were without guards. The guards had quiet ly sneaked off like thieves in the night.
 We proceeded to find out whether the guards had left us for good without food and water. We found that we were at Hermanas and that there was plenty of water but no food.
 At daylight Captain C. c. Farmer, a United States officer from Colum- bus, arrived at Hermanas. Captain Farmer came to ascertain our cOndi- tion.
 T told the captain of the lack of food. that most of the men were appre- nenOed ana enlTalneO Tn the cars WlIH- out breakfast, that some, by no means a large majority, had given to them while on the train a chunk of bread and some beef, anything but palatable, or some crackers. but that the great number were without food of any kind.
 We have still a large number that mp to the time of this statement have had nothing to eat at all. Others have had what the one small store in Her manas could furnish. The little store sold out it's entire contents, including candy, within a few minutes
 Among the men deported are prop erty owners, Bisbee business men, Hb- erty bond subscribers between the ages of 21 to 30 inclusive, who have registered under the recent selective draft law and others who are reserv- ists under the military law passed in Jnne. 1916.
 While many of the men, it is true, are members of what is known as the Industrial Workers of the World, nev- ertheless they are law abiding and peaceful men who have made no trouble for the officials or inhabitants