Evening star., 1921-09-01
Thousands Refuse
To Return Home
From March
TRAINS STOPPED
IN DANGER ZONE
Quiet in Troubled
Area, Runners to
Logan Report.

Logan Report.
by the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Septem-
Der 1.-The Office of Gov. Morgan an
nounced soon after noon today that
it had a report from Logan OF the
of firing on Blair noun
tain, Boone county. There were no
details.
Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz,
United States Army, representing
the War Department. arrived in
Charleston from Washington short
ly before noon and went Immediate
ly to the Office of Gov. Morgan.
LOGAN. w. Va. September 1.-Run-
ners reaching Logan from outlying
posts in the mountains reported at
noon today that quiet prevailed in the
sections where the deputy sheriffs and
under Sheriff Chain of
Logan county and Sheriff Hatfield Of
Mcdowell county were prepared to
meet an advance of armed bands from
the east side of Spruce Fork ridge.
AS fast as deputy sheriffs and VOL
unteers from other parts of the state
arrived here they were hurried to the
front, but there was no official state
ment as to the number of reinforce
ments or the total number OF men
now on active duty.
An important addition to the forces
was a detachment of state policemen,
sixty-seven, who. 1t was
tnI In1 tn he oi Oh II
troopers under Capt. Brockus. who
came here from Mingo last Saturday.
Planes to Do Scout Duty.
The bodies of John Gore. Jim Nun
sey and John Cavajo, who were killed
in the fighting yesterday. were
Brought to Logan today and arrange
ments made for the funerals.
Commanders of the men in the
said it was impossible to
estimate the number Of casualties
no statement was made as to the men
by the defenders.
Col jackson Arnold of the state
police. who has taken command Of
the force here said To-day the exact.
situation on the eastern side of the
where the armed bands
have been congregating, would be de-
by airplanes soon after noon,
as it was impossible to reach that
section in any other way. !.
Two planes are already here and
another was expected this afternoon.
Army airplanes ordered to this Sec
ton from Langley Field.
Thousands Near County Line.
Approach of noon today found thou
sands of men still gathered across
the Logan county line. At Crooked
Creek firing. which started yester-
from other border sections were that
quiet prevailed. There was no indi-
cation, however, that any of the
armed bands had dispersed and bor-
der patrols of deputy sheriffs, state
police and volunteer peace officers
kept close watch.
Prediction freely was made between
midnight and daybreak that IL
o'clock today would find armed bands
still gathered on the Boone county
side Of Spruce Fork ridge. That hour
was designated by President Harding
in Tuesdays proclamation as the time
limit for the dispersion of all persons
Engaged in unlawful and insurrec-
tionary proceedings" the alternative
being the dispatch of federal troops
to the affected district and declara-
tion of martial law in the counties
of Kanawha. Fayette. Boone. Logan
and Mingo. Charleston, the state
capital. is in Kanawha county.
Scene Of Armed Marches.
This block OF, counties. forming part
of the southern tier. have been, on
several occasions. the scene of in
dustrial differences and armed
marches. Extensive coal operations
Paint and Cabin creeks. Some Of the
operations are unionized. others are
not. In Logan county the entire
field is unorganlzed, except for a narrow
strip on the eastern slope of Spruce Fork
ridge. close to the Boone county line.
across the county line into Boone that
armed bands have been reported gath
ering for several days. 1t is there
that deputy sheriffs, state police, vol
unteer. peace officers and citizens of
adjacent counties who responded to
authorities are guarding the roads
and trails that lead westward into the
Eeart of the county. 1t was there that
recent fights occurred when bands in
tent on crossing the county en- route
to Mihgo were resisted by Logan pa
for a journey to the Tug river bank
in Mingo county was to protest mar
tial law declared there several months
ago, following industrial disorders in
the Williamson coal fields.
March Started August 20.
The first indication of a march from
Kanawha county through Boone and
Logan into Mingo was the assembling
of groups of men from Paint and
Cabin creeks at Marmet, a town Just
south of Charleston, August 20. For
several days thereafter other bodies
Joined these groups swelling their
number to several thousand.
The march southwestward started
shortly after midnight. August rs.
Racine. Boone county, was reached
the first day and the night was spent
along Indian creek near that place.
The next day found the advance party
numbering 500 men at Madison
twenty miles from Marmet, the rest Of
the marchers being scattered out a
few miles behind.
At this juncture federal and state
authorities called on United Mine
Workers officials to persuade the men
to abandon the journey. C. F. Keeney
and Fred Mooney, president and Sec
retary, respectively, of District No. II.
men, who appeared to be without rec.
ognized leaders. The appeal appar-
emily was successful, for during the
next two days reports were received
that the men were fast returning to
their homes. The reports were SO en-
that Brig. Gen. Bandholtx.
sent to West Virginia by the war
to investigate the march,
returned to Washington. !.
Men Fail to Dispense.
He had no sooner reached the Ma
tional Capital and made his report
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