Evening star., 1921-08-30
Advance In Squads
Along Roads to
Logan County
AUTOS DASH OUT
ALONG THE LINE
Search Homes for
Gun.-1,0OO Ready
to Aid Sheriff.
By the Associated Press.

to Aid Sheriff.
BY the Associated Press.
WEIGH, w. Va, August 80
Five hundred members of Mcdowell
County Post, No. 8, American LIE.
pion, under command of Maj. w. r
Eubank, answering a call from Gov
Morgan, left Welch today at noon
in automobiles for Logan county
Reports from there indicated that
a battle with invading miners Is
imminent.
A message received here from
Sheriff Hatfield of Mcdowell. who
is in Logan county, states that ten.
sion is high and trouble is expected
momentarily.
Between 1000 and 5000 armed mer
have assembled sat Jeffery. in Boone
county, close to the Logan county line
according to official advices received
here today. They are within easy
striking distance of the disturbed
men were killed in fight with state
, troopers and deputy sherins SUNDAY
morning.
The authorities also have been In
formed that some seventy-hve auto,
mobiles carrying armed men dashed
out of the Cabin Creek valley near
here this morning and passine
through Marmet. continued up the
Lens Creek valley along the line
taken by the men who set out &c
march to Mingo county last week.
From Marmet there are two good
roads across Boone county to the Lo-
gan county line, and along these. II
was said today, men are moving, Dut
not in a great body. Rather are they
in squads of five or six. but in the
aggregate they number hundreos, the
authorities say.
The mines at Whitesville, to which
point several hundred of the march
ing miners went when they turned
back from Racine at the instance OF
T. F. Keeney, president of the West
many of the workers having gone to
the scene of activities in and around
Jeffery, it was asserted. l-~--------
Armed Men Search House.
Adjt. Gen. John II. Charnock was
informed, at noon that an automobile,
carrying armed men. stopped at the
house of Lou Huffman. on Davis
house for arms, departed with his
rifle and pistol. They told HUFFMAN
they were not robbers and would re-
turn to pay him later.
Other reports to the general were
that the house of Ira Clark and a
Davis creek section also were search
ed for weapons. Davis creek is only
three miles from here.
From other parts of Kanawha
county came reports that men were
arming and leaving their homes for
the Logan-Boone border. many OF
them travelling in automobiles. while
others were going by train. Mines
which yesterday were In operation
are closed today. operators reporting
tEat many of their men are leaving
for the troubled zone.
Moving In Small Groups.
Sheriff Walker. who has had men
disband last week, received reports
that no considerable force of miners
was congrgeated there, but that small
groups are passing that way, all NOV
ing in the direction of Boone-Logan
country. Other reports reaching the
sheriff were that numbers of men
were passing through St. Albans. on
the main line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad. up the Coal river
branch to Clothier. From Clothier
in reaching Jeffrey, which seems to
be the point of mobilization.
Last night 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. Adjt.
Gen. Charnock was back in the capital
after a hurried trip through the district
Sunday night and yesterday. The word
picture he painted of the situation in
a statement last night was likened to a
canvas depicting a storm-tosssd sea.
So alarming was it that Gov E. F.
Morgan sent a midnight appeal to
President Harding requesting immediate
aid.
In his request. addressed to the chief
executive and Secretary of War Weeks,
the governor quoted the adjutant gen.
eral as reporting that during the trip
but they refused to- do so and continued
to maintain patrols on the roads along
the boundary line of the two counties.
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad trains
have been commandeered to transport
contingents to armed camps, and tele-
taken to prevent re-establishment of
communication, the governor said his
emissary had informed him.
Males. II to 60. Under Arms.
Adjt. Gen. Charnock's companion on
the mission, A. c. Porter. United Mine
Workers executive board member, re-
turned to Charleston with the state Of
nclai. he. TOO, gave gloomy account
of conditions, prefacing his formal
statement with foreboding metaphors.
His startling report to c. F. Keeney.
president of District II, United Mine
Workers of America, follows:
with all males from the ages of
fourteen to sixty under arms, women
and children fleeing in panic over
the line into Boone county, armed
patrols arriving and departing, and
every available conveyance carrying
supplies to the picket posts in the
hills, the Sharples-Blair sector may
we'll be compared with Belgium in the
early days of the world war.
"On the northern side of the noun
tain which serves as watershed to
both Coal and Guyandotte rivers lies
the camp and main force Of the
miners. Similarly situated on the
southern side are the Logan county
deputies and the state police. The
miners have advanced picket lines in
the hills.
Should these men clash 1t would
draw into battle total of $500 men.
Along the tops of the ridge are
trenches and breastworks Of rocks and
felled trees"
Armed Men Again Forming.
summary Of other disturbing un-
confirmed reports reaching the gov
ernor's office and made public there
late last night and early today fol-
lows: