New Britain herald., 1921-08-30
LOGAN.bO0NEL LINE IS YET UNCERTAIN
Miners in Troublesome MoOd-
 Wants More Federal Aid

nlsht was one of uncertainty as to what was happening along the Lo- gan-Boone county line. Early today it was much the same. Latest reports were a repetition of yesterdays. no more assuring, no less alarming. Aoj:. Gen. Charnock was back in the capi tai after hurried trip through the district Sunday night and vsste, day. The work picture he painted Of the situation in a formal statement, last night was likened to a canvas depict ing storm-tossed sea. So alarming was it that Governor Morgan sent a midnight appeal to President Harding requesting immediate aid.
 In hIs request addressed to the chief executive Secretary of War Week., the governor quoted the adjutant-g eral as reporting that during the rip he commanded armed bands to dis perse but that they refused to do so and continued to maintain patrols on the roads along the boundary lines of the two counties. Chesapeake and
 Ohio railroad trains have been com mandeered to transport contingents to armed camps and telephone wires have been cut and steps taken to pre- vent -esta blishment of cormunica- ton, the governor said his emissa-y had informed him.
 Efforts to communicate by telephone with Blair and Sharples have been unsuccessful for several days.
 Adj' Gen. Charnocks companions on the mission, A. C. Porter, United Mine Workers executive board mem Der returned to Charleston with the state official. He, too, gave a gloomy account of conditions prefacing his formal statement with fOi ieboding metaphors.
 His startling report to c. F. Keeney, president of District IT, United Mine Workers of America, follows:
 With all males from the ages of 14 to 50 under arms, women and chil- dren fleeing in panic over the lines into Boone county. armed patrols ar irving and departing and every avail able conveyance carrying supplies to the picket posts in the hills, the Sharples- Blair sector may well be con1- pared with Belgium in thee carly days of the world war.
 "On the northern side of the noun tain which serves as water shed to both Coal and GuyaEdotte rivers. lies the camp and main forces of the min ers Similarly situated on the south ern side are the Logan county depu- ties and the state police. The miners
 have advanced picket lines in the hills.
 Should these men clash it would draw into battle a total of 2.:.oo men. Along the tops of the ridges are treach- ea and breastworks of rocks and fall- l en trees"
 The Kanawha Coal Operators As A4xy hat fa 1 3 men killed in the engagement near Sharpes between state troopers and deputy sheriffs and a band of armed men had been identified as William Le Greer and Matewan and c. Clark and w. M. Morrison of Sharples, was borne out by the reports of Adjut. Gen. Charnock and MT. Porter. Clark's father is said to live at Cattlettsburg, l Ky A fourth casualty, George May, received a slight wound.
 According to MT. Porter several men
 at Sharples told him their stories of the fight. All agreed. he added, l None of the men ould say whether the troopers and reptiles suffered any lossesl However they stated that one campaign and one broad brimmed hat were picked up near the scene. Guns and cartridges were found alongside the hats, MT. Porter said the men told him.
 After the battle MT Porter said his linformants told him all the miners
 in the vicinity armed themselves and
 small boys stood with arms at their
 fathers scides. Patrols that had been
 withdrawn from the mountains lying toward Logan were again thrown out.
 Later a party of men hunting a COW
 at Hewitt heard firing and began a
 search. At a nearby farm house, the
 men told MT. Porter he said, the |searchers found Magistrate Fulton l Mitchell and four others eating dinner
 with two machine guns, several rifles
 and pistols and a large supply of ann
 munition alongside them. The men told Porter, he added, that Magistrate Mitchell and three of his companions, one his brother and the others John
 Browning and Will White, wehe