Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-01
THOUSANDS FLOCK
TO RANKS OF w. VA.
MARCHING MINERS
Continued from nnae

Kanawha county through noone and
Logan into Minno was the assembling
OF groups OF men from Paint and Cabii
Greeks at Marmet. a town just south
OF Charleston. August 20. For sew
erai days thereafter other bodies Join.
ed these groups swelling their number
simple business Of life and lay the
| to several thousand.
The march southwcstward started
shortly after midnight. August 3b
Racine, Boone county, was reached ths
FIRST day and the night waH spent
along Indian Creek near that place
The next day found the advance party
numbering 300 mon at Madison. 20
miles from Marrnet. the rest. Of the
narchers being scattered out few
miles behind
At this juncturo federal and state
authorities called on United Mine
Workers officials to persuade the men
To abandoa the journey. e. r. Keen
ey and Fred Mooney, president and
secretary respectively OF District II.
hurried TO Madison and addressed the
men who appeared To be without
recognized leaders. The appeal was
successful for during the next two
days. reports were received that the
men were fast returning to their
homes. The reports were so enconrnE-
ing that Brieader General Bandholtz,
sent TO West Virginia by the War
Department 10 investigate the march.
returned 10 Washington.
He lad no sooner reached the ma
tional capital and made his report
"A. a..
rive at Governor r.. u. Morgans office
that men waiting In Western Boone
and Eastern Lognn counties to Join
the marchers when they got that far.
had not dispersed and were insisting
on completion of the march. When
these reports reached Logan county
the authorities immediately took steps
10 prevent movement across II.
Deputy Sheriffs were dispatched to the
eastern hills TO offer resistance.
Meanwhile alarming reports that
the east Logan and West Boone coun-
" bands were rapidly growing larger
and that men from Cahine and Paint
Creeks were streaming across Boone
county to join them caused Governor
Morgan at midnight Monday to dis
patch an appeal to President Hnr-
ding for federal aid
Authorities Not Idle.
During this time the Logan authuri-
ties were not idle. Calls for help went
10 adjacent counties and hundreds of
including many ex-seryice
men responded 10 the call. State
troopers from Mingo also we're rushed
in and special trains from Charleston
carried arms and ammunition into the
county. Adiutant General John II.
Charneck and mine workers officials
visited the armed camp OF the march
ers in the vicinity of JeTery, close To
which are the towns of Blair. Clothier
and Sharpies. often mentioned in the
news dispatches as seats of trouble.
They exhorted the men 10 abandon
their enterprise but 20 no avail.
Yesterday the marchers started To
advance in at least two piaees--ovnr
Blair Mountain and at Crooked Creek.
Reports brought into Logan. the
county scat, were that several mem
bers Of the blocking patrols had been
killed and indicated casualties among
those trying TO move forward.
Throughout the night motor cars
transporting men and munitions sped
along the 1ogan@lair road to Spruce
Fork Ridge and returned with reports
that firing continued along a three
mile line.