The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-09-03

and trails are also blocked by armed
miners Immediately south OF this
point.
Fully armed and equipped with
machine guns. the troops WIN be
ready for every emergency.
I'VE do not know what will hap.
Zen. so we are prepared for any.
thing" said Gen. Bandholtz to THE
New York HERALD correspondent this
afternoon.
The magnitude of the miners in
surrection, which has made helpless
the State government of West Vir-
ginia, has not been greatly over.
stated. There have not been as
many killings, perhaps. as some re-
PORTS have indicated. To date there
may have been half a dozen men
killed on both sides, and thirty or
forty wounded That is the most
conservative report.
But nothing definite is known OF
the casualties on the miners side.
i 4ltJ uldg DlIAS lHC lOldl up " DNt
times that amount. AS this despatch
is being written, at p. NJ, in a lit.
tie railroad restaurant at ST. AL
bans, woman, Mrs. John Gore, is
being carried from a train just arriv.
ing from Logan by circuitous route
through Huntington. She has suf
tered complete collapse after the
killing of her husband and one son
and the capture Of another. who were
among the Logan county defenders.
A physician waits to administer an
opiate to her.
The dead body OF another of Logan
county's volunteer defenders has also
just been removed from the same
train. 1t is wrapped in soiled army
blanket.
Uncertainty 20 Result.
Tonight nothing seems likely to
prevent the movement of regular
troops against the miners under orders
to disarm and dispense them at once.
There is no indication that the miners
will yield before the troops actually
appear before them. Whether they
will yield then or fight back no one
here can tell tonight. Gen. Band
holtz thinks they will yield. but he
would like to be more certain.
Martial law has not been declared
in the disturbed counties. II it is de-
clared, which has not yet been de-
termined, it will not be until the Fed
eral troops are actually in control of
the whole area.
The question as to the manner in
which the fighting miners are pro-
visioning themselves was answered to-
day. Authentic reports from all over
southwestern Kanawha county and
Boone county. where the miners are in
control, establish the fact that they
are systematically rifling stores and
private homes for food. arms and am
munition.
They are not disorderly. They seem
TO be under some sort of discipline, but
who their leaders are is not known
here. In several instances II is re-
ported that mountain dew stills have
been deliberately destroyed by the
miners by order Of their leaders.
Merchants through the disturbed area
are coming into Charleston and 81.
jAlbans with stories OF having been
ruined by the loss Of thousands Of dollars
worth of stocks.
Loot store: Promise TO Pay.
"A dozen OF them came into my place"
said a man who keeps large cross
roads store south of Madison, and
after having soft drinks all arornd end
paying for them. they took every bit OF
food, canned and otherwise. that l mao
on my shelves. They made me load X
on a truck and deliver IL at their camp.
They gave me "A piece Of paper naming
the articles and said. You'll be paid TOT
this but ! want 10 know who is going
to pay me-"
Gen. Bandholtz has sent Major G. F.
Thompson of his STAFF to Logan to in
form Sheriff Chain. leader OF the volun-
tcer forces opposing the miners, that
the Federal Government has taken
charge. Until the Federal troops actually
appear on the scene of the lighting at
blair Mountain. Spruce. Fork Ridge and
other points along the Boone-Logan line,
the citizen defenders will remain on
duty but they will take orders from
Cen Bandhoitz through Major Thomp-
son.
Gen. Bandholtz viii maintain his gen.
cral headquarters at Charleston. coming
TO this and other points nearer the fight
ing zone AS occasion may require.
The rcbellious miners belong to three
classes About one-haif OF them are
natives of West Virginia or old Ameri-
can mountainecr stock. The rest are
negroes and bohunks. who came TO the
mining regions before the world war.