Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-05-06
INDIANA SOLDIERS
FIRE ON RIOTERS
Martial Law Is Declared for Lin
ton as Trouble Spreads.
REGULARS MAY BE CALLED
Mining Town In Uproar as Result OF
Telephone Girls Strike-one Man
Shot and MiIitiaman Struck
by Stone.

Greene county, Indiana, by Governor
James P. Goodrich, as a result of riot
there, when 500 citizens, mostly miners,
stormed the local telephone office and
compelled strike-breaking girl tele-
phone operators 10 leave their switch
board and flee for safety. The gov
ernor issued a proclamation declaring
martial law in the mining town, fol
lowing reports that further trouble was
expected.
Fires on Crowd.
Terre Haute, Ind, April 30-One of
the eight militia companies at Linton
opened fire upon mob of citizens col
lected around the telephone exchange,
and Casey Jones, workman, was shot
in the head
One militiaman was hit on the head
with rock. The phone girl strike
breakers, who returned to work, fol
lowing Monday nights demonstration,
were again escorted out of the build
ing under guard.
Adjt. Gen. Harry Smith, who has
charge of the militia, has ordered the
men to fire low, if necessary.
Late in the afternoon Earl Houck
agent of the department of justice,
wired to the United States marshals
office at Indianapolis that the situa-
ton was growing more threatening
Information has reached General
Smith that miners and other union
men were storing ammunition and
liquor. The marshal's Office Is dis
patching so deputies to the scene and
pected.
All telephone communications were
cut off when the militiamen fired ten
rounds at the mob. Strikebreaking
girls remained until after the shots
had been fired Citizens demanded
they leave the building.
Federal troops may be called if the
state militia is unable to handle the
situation, federal officials indicated.
Take Names of Rioters.
Indianapolis, April 3O.-Governor
Goodrich ordered state, county and
city officials at Linton to get the names
of every person taking part in the
Linton telephone disturbance and turn
them over to the federal authorities,
The governor said that the federal
government is operating the telephone
company and the facts should be
placed before the United States dis
trict court here.
Governor Goodrich said the procla-
nation declaring martial law went in
to effect at Linton at $40 O'Clock
Tuesday morning.
All Coal Mines Idle.
In a telephone conversation from
Linton with Governor Goodrich. Adju-
tapt General Smith was reported to
have told the governor that none of the
coal mines in Greene county were
working, but order apparently had
been restored as far as outward cir
cLmstances indicated. An additional
militia company was reported on its
way to Linton from Bloomington, Ind
Telephone officials told the COVER
nor that service in Linton had been
resumed
Governor Goodrich said that he had
called by long-distance telephone. Ed
Stewart, president of the Eleventh dis
trict organization of the United Mine
Workers of America, and Charles Fox
president of the Indiana Federation of
Labor, both of Terre Haute, outlined
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celved from Linton, and told them that
he did not believe their organizations
could afford to have serious trouble
occur at Linton.
He said that he informed them the
state would attempt to preserve law
and order at Linton, regardless of
The cost.
The governor quoted the labor lead
ers as replying that they would dc
everything in their power to prevent
trouble.