The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-30
Situation Is Alarming

Charleston, w. Va. Aug. 30.-Last
night was one CT uncertainty as to
what was happening along the Logan.
Boone county line. Early today it
was much the same. Adjutant Gen.
Cial CharnoCk was back in the capi-
tai after Il hurried trip into the dis
trict Sunday night and yesterday The
word picture he painted in a state
ment last night was likened to can
vass depicting storm tossed sea So
charming was it that Gov. E. f. Nor
gan sent a midnight appeal to Pres
dent Harding requesting Immediate
aid.
In his request, addressed to the
chief executive and Secretary of War
Weeks, Gov Morgan quoted the ad-
jutant general as reporting that dur
ing the trip he commanded armed
lands to disperse but that they re-
fused to do so and continued to main
tain patrols on the roads along the
boundary line of the two counties,
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
trains have been Communicated to
transport contingents to armed camps
and telephone wires have been Gu
and steps taken to prevent re-estab-
lishment of communication, the gov
ernor said his emmissary had in
formed him.
Efforts to communicate by telephone
with Plair and Sharples have besn
unsuccessful for several days.
Adjutant General Charnock's COM
panion on the visit, A. C. Porter,
United Mine Workers Executive
Beard member gave ID gloomy account
of conditions. His report to c. f.
Keeney. president of District Il,
United Mine Workers of America,
said:
with all males from the ages of
il to go under arms, women and chill
dron fleeing in panic over the line
into Boone county, armed patrols ar
riving and departing and every avail
able conveyance carrying supplies to
the picket posts in the hills. the
SharplesB air sector may we'll be
compared with Belgium in the early
days Of the world war. On the north
crn side of the mountain which serve;
as a 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 it would
draw into Il battle Il total of $500 men.
Along the tops of the ridge arc
trenches and breastworks of rocks
and felled trees.
The Kanawaha Coal Operators as
sociation statement yesterday that
the three men killed in the engage
ment near Sharples between state
troopers and deputy sheriffs and a
band of armed men had been identi.
fed as VIM. l.. Greer, of Matewan,
and Cecil Clark and w. M. Morrison,
of Sharples. was borne out by the re-
ports of Adjutant General Charnock
and Mr. Porter After the battle, Mr..
Porter said his informants told him
all the miners in the vicinity armed
themselves and small boys stood with
arms at their fathers sides and pa
trolls We're again thrown out
Later a party of men hunting a
COW at Hewitt heard firing and began
search. AT a nearby farmhouse, the
men told Mr.. Porter. the searchers
found Magistrate Fulton Mitchell and
four others eating dinner with two
machine guns, several rifles and pis-
tolls and a large supply of ammuni.
tion alongside them. The men told
Porter, he added, that Magistrate
Mitchell and three of his companions
one his brother and the others John
! , l.sG
shackeled with their own hard cuffs
by the men who discovered them and
that they are now held prisoners. be-
! ing smuggled from p ace to place to
prevent their release by deputies =
A 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:
That armed men are again forming
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