The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-02
MINER line
ROARS With
HEAVY FIRING
Fighting Sporadic During Day
Since Daybreak = Women
and Children Arriving from
Battle District.
TRAFFIC IS SUSPENDED
fBy Associated Press,

LOGAN, w. Va, Sept. 2-After
morning of uncertainty in which re-
PORTS from Spruce Fork Ridge had
told of sporadic fighting since day
break, it was officially annaunced that
heavy firing was taking place at Blair
Mountain, Mill Creek and Crooked
Creek
Colonel Eubanks said that one Lo-
gan man had been wounded on Blair
Mountain and that five of the oppos-
ing forces had been seen to fall Air
planes reconnoitering over Boone
county, east of the ridge, reported in
creased activity among the armed
bands, which have assembled there,
while courier said it was one con-
tinued roar along the entire line. Re
Inducements continued to reach Lo-
gan from the southern part of the
state.
Prisoners Taken
Early morning reports from Spruce
Fork Ridge told little about the sit
uation on the Logan county border
where firing from either side was
spasmodic during the night. Colonel
Eubanks, West Virginia National
Guard in command of the Logan coun
| ty forces, had no official statement tc
make, he said, and Sheriff Don Chain
was equally reticent.
Three prisoners taken by patrols
and brought here last night, were
| locked in the county jail where ar
| hour before a fatal shooting had oc
! Cured.
While being transferred from one
cell to another Paul Cominsky, arrest
ed at Ethel yesterday charged with be
/ ing a suspicious person, attacked
Jailer w. E. White, whereup the Off
Ger stated he shot and killed him.
ST. ALBANS, W. Va, Sept. p
Women and children from the Littl,
Coal River country, where armed
bands have gathered along the east
ern slope of Spruce Fork Ridge, hav,
arrived here in large numbers anC
are quartered in hotels and with pri
yate families.
Many of them are the families o
business and professional men, al
though more are the wives and chil
dren of miners. The authorities her
believe that if it were possible TO
them to get through, many other WON
en- and children from the villa ge
would make their way to St Alban
until their home region had becom
normal.
/ AS on yesterday, no trains wer
running on the Little Coal Rive
branch of the Chesapeake and Obi
railroad, and the station agent her
said that all the wires along the lin
had been cut. The signal system ais
was out of commission, he said
Trains Stranded
When traffic was suspended, thre
, locomotives, a string of freight car
and a complete passenger train wer
in the vicinity of the mining town
, the men were congrega ting.
Many stories are heard here fror
the people who have come from tn
: mining country regarding the stu;
; tion there when they left They te
of the constant arrival of bands {
: men from many parts of southern an
5 central West Virginia, all of thel
t armed. 1t is also related that a
work in the region has been abal
. doned, while business is at a stant
= still
= Reports reaching here this morl
: ing said that physicians from th
: towns around Blair had been sun
moned to that place, where a ten
: porary hospital has been opened fc
! the wounded in the fighting alon
5 Spruce Fork Ridge