The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-26
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are not giving out any information
He then hung up the telephone re-
ceiver.
Reports from Racine tonight were
that the several thousand marchers
who left Marmet shortly after last
midnight, avowedly bound for Mingo
county to protest martial law. in force
there. were still encamped alongside
Indian Rock just outside the town.
These reports have given rise to the
belief here that the Marmet march
ers had no part in the reported Blair
engagement. Blair is 20 miles south
west of Racine and in order for the
marchers to reach there they would
have had to pass through Madison.
Several residents OF Madison re-
ported tonight by long distance tele-
phone that none had passed through
that town today. Prosecuting Attor-
ney HI. w. B. Mullins of Boone county,
who resides at Madison, reported TO
Charleston by telephone early tonight
that he had been advised by passengers
on a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger
train from Blair that three hundred
deputies of Logan county were bat
ting a large body of armed men when
the train left that place. Mullins
added that the passengers told him
that the inhabitants of Blair were pre-
pairing to flee when the train left.
Several hours after Prosecutor Null
Inns had reported to Charleston, Louis
Michaelson, of Logan, county seat of
Logan county, and about eight miles
from Blair, was questioned concern
ing the reported fight. He replied by
telephone that he was a member of a
party Of deputies that reconnoitered
in the vicinity of Blair late this aft
ernoon. He declared there had been
no battle there and that the only re-
port of any shooting was that an air
plane had been fired at.
DR.. w. P. Black, coroner of Kanaw-
ha county. and a Charleston newspa-
per reported were held up and robbed
late this afternoon while en- route up
Lens Creek, in the vicinity of Mar
met. DIR. Black reported upon his re-
turn to Charleston tonight. He was
to East Bank to hold an
inquest over the bodies of Chris Pc
try and William Quinn. The bodies
Of an East Bank undertaken shortly
after the marchers left Marmet for
Racine.
While passing up Lens Creek. the
doctor stated, he was stopped and in
formed that armed men on the march
had lynched a negro because he knew
too much" DIR. Black said that to-
gether with the reporter he went up
Lens Creek to investigate. They soon
were stopped. however. and forced to
give up their money, the doctor said,
quoting tina men as remarking ito
buy tobacco for the boys" After
burning over their money, the men
permitted them to proceed but they
failed to find any trace of a Negroes
body.
Upo.1 arrival at East Bank. DIR.
Black found That Petry had been shot
the temple and Quinn several
times through the body. Petry, the
doctor said he learned, had been n
miner at Enwright, where Quinn also
had been employed by coal COM
pany. Coroner Black stated that he
had been informed the men had been
shot by "sharpshooters" concealed
along the line of march. Several hours
after the Marmet men began their |
march southwark, another body Of
men said to number 1000 arrived at
the mouth of Lens Creek and departed
In the wake of the larger gathering, |
according to reports reaching here
from Marmet tonight. The contingent |
Is reported to have come from the east |
but 1t was not learned from what |
towns.
Governor Morgan announced to- |
night that an army captain had ar
rived here by airplane from Washing
ton and had been In conference with |
him and other state officers. After |
the conference the governor refused TO
talk of the situation, or to make any !
statement He did say, however. that |
he had received no assurance that |
federal troops would be sent here in
with his request to the
var department today.
Transportation Ready for Troops.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, Aug. 25.-Nor- |
folk and Western railroad yard Off |
,ials here announced tonight that they |
had received orders to have three
coaches ready for transportation of |
troops southwark eat any time after
All officers at Columbus |
barracks where several hundred troops |
are stationed were attending a. staff /
and could not be reached. !
Soldiers stationed at the post were
called in from amusement parks and
from the streets by orderlies who said I
hat preparations were being made for
/ movement.
Wires Have Been Cut.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 25.-Sheriff /
J. l.. Hill OF Boone county tonight told
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