Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-01
Severe BATTLE RAGING IN LOGAN COUNTY
ACCORDING TO REPORTS ESTIMATES OF
KILLED RANGE FROM EIGHT TO HUNDRED
Government Hadn't interviewed At Noo-CharIeston Be-
eves General Attack BY Miners Now Would Mean Fearful
Slauqhter-Thirty Miners Said To Have Been Slain.
(sy international News servTce.)


Logan, Sept 1.-The miners
have either retreated or are plan@l
ming an aggressive action on a hi9
scale"
This was the official statement o.
Colonel Eubank, commander OF th9l
citizens army al $50 a. M. todays1
Military authorities estimate that |
thirty miners were killed at the batfl
tie of Crooked Creek. about ninNi
miles from Logan Court House yes
terday. Three deputies are knowri|
to be dead The military authorities
at $50 a. m said that sniping had
started again at Crooked Creek andEi
at Blair mountain. n
Miner sharpshooters are poppinxJ
at the Logan defenders on top pfl
the hill.
A party OF ono hundred men wAA5
rushed to Crooked Creek this morn1
ing to reinforce the garrison thereJ
Others were sent to Blair Mountatns1
where trouble lis anticipated durdn&A
the day. IN
Airplane scouts were dispatched
over the miners army by ColoneH
Eubank who fears the "lull Is be3
fore the storm. The airplanes were
instructed to go over the enttrA
| twenty-five miles OF front.
Logan county officials are praying
for the arrival OF Federal troops.
They are confident or being able
to defend the borders successfully.
but believe the presence of troops
10
They think the miners will quit
whom the Federal troops arrive.
A general attack by miners now
means fearful slaughter, 1t was
openly predicted.
Fighting Continues
Charleston. Sept. Reports
from the Logan-Boone battlefront
received here indicate that three
deputies and from one to twenty
miners were killed or wounded In
the fighting yesterday and last
night. The fighting is continuing
this morning, according to reports
reaching the governors office.
Doubt 100 Dead
Williamson, Sept 1.-Reports
have reached Sheriff A. c. Pinson.
OF NHgo county, from the Logan
o.Ie county border, whore a fur
us battle ragged all day Wednesday
between six thousand armed strik-
ing miners on one side and deputy
eherffs, State police and volunteer
citizens on the other, that as many
as one hundred were killed in yes
terdays fighting. Reports reaching
Sheriff Pinson were fragmentary
and the number Of reported casual /
ties differed with each report that !
came in. The report OF 100 dead |
has not been conformed from other /
sources. "a
ArpIanes To w. Va. ~
Washington, Sept. IA squadron
Of thirteen aeroplanes was today
ordered by Secretary of War Weeks
to proceed TO West Virginia, to be
used by the government in the event
OF establishment of martial law In
the trouble zones OF the West Vir-
Rinia coal fields.
The aeroplanes are under orders
to proceed from Langley Field, Va.
The secretary says these orders
could not be construed as indica-
tive that the government has decid-
ed to send troops into West Vir-
einia. The final decision has not vet
been made, he said.
The army air service today denied
any knowledge of reports that an
'.rplane had dropped a bomb on
IN" armed miners yesterday. 1t was
."tod that there were no reports to
show that any army plane was fly.
'ng in West Virginia yesterday.
Heard At Ethel
State Police Headquarters. Ethel.
VI. Va. Sept. 1.-Fighting between
the Logan county defenders and
Sheriff Don Chain and the striking
miners who are attempting to march
through this county was continuing
mis- morning Rerorts of the battle
are distinctly audible here.