Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-01

confirmation.
 Other developments inclrded the an- nouncement that the men had advanced two miles during the day and were only four miles from Logan county deputies, while from Peck's Mill, where the Mo Dowell men made their headquarters it was six miles across rough mountain country to .the nearest large body of armed rioters
 Surgeons and nurses were sent to Peck's Mill where an emergency hos pital was established late in the after noon. Other hospitals, it was said, would be ready before tomorrow.
 Sheriff Chain and Sheriff Hatfield made g tour of inspection before night fall, and it was expected that upon treir return the exact position of the contending groups would be made known.
 Volunteers continued to come into Lo- gan from all over the southern part of the state Women of the county serv- ed them with food and hot coffee while military men organized them into units.
 The unusual situation confronting the people of Logan county, which has been described by Governor Morgan as an insurrection, is the direct outgrowth of the long controversy between the or ganized and organiznd miners of this section. All of Logan county east of 1 Spruce Fork Ridge is unorganized but the little section lying between the east ern slope of the mountains and the i Boone County line is filled with union i miners.
 These men last week prepared to join ] the march of other union men from , Marmet to Mingo county, which was i stopped at tehinstance of united mine workers officia acting on the advice Of l Rripadier General Bandholtz.
 Within "A hours after the head of l marching columns had been turned back | it became known that the miners in the ] unionized sections of Logan county nsu | net abandoned their intention to move on Mingo. Although their numbers were comparatively smalL the news spread i rapidly through Kanawha. Boone, Fa- 1 yette and Wyoming counties. Many of ,,the miners who had abaHioned the march are said to have started for l Jeffery where the union miners of Logan were gathered.
 These reports reached Logan and Sheriff Chain called on the sheriffs ol neighboring counties and to Governor Morgan for help.
 l Two companies of the state police and I number of volunteers were sent from Mingo county to Logan, while some two | hundred or three hundred deputy sheriffs l were hastily enrolled in McDowell coun
 ty and went to Logan with Sheriff Hat
 field. These forces hurried to the noun
 tain range separating the union and th'
 non-union fields, and early Sunday, il
 clash between the state police and {
 body of men marching toward Logan
 four men were killed
 From all over the southern part of thu
 state miners were reported as hurry ing to join the forces at Jeffe-y Thii | movement was continuing even today and tonight it was estimated that fully 5000 if not more men were in that region. The mining villages from which tn
 armed men marched into the mountains Saturday and Sunday, and where rein
 forcements are now said to be gathered are far removed from wire communica ton. Details of what has been going ol
 there have been unknown except to tn
 peace officers. at Madison, the count.
 seat of Boone county, and they hay
 refused al information They admit
 ted, however. that the force of miner in the mountains and villages, was in
 creasing, that every man had gun an
 some of them had two.