The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-30
All Males Between Ages OF
IA and go Are Under Ar
rest in Logan County
Three Deaths in Engage
ment Near the Town of
Sharples-Union Lead
ers Profess to be Help
less


night was one of uncertainty as 10
what was happening along the Logan !
Boone county line. Early to-day IL
was much the same, Latest reports
were a repetition of yesterdays no
more assuring, no less alarming.
Adiutant General Charnock was back
in the capital after hurried trlp
through the district Sunday night and
Yesterday. The word picture he paint
"a of the situation in formal state
ment last night was likened to can
vas depicting a storm-tossed sea, %
alarming was it that Governor T. r.
Morgan sent midnight appear TO
President Harding requesting immedi-
ate aid.
In his request addressed to the pres
ident and Secretary of war Weeks
the governor quoted the adjutant gen
eral as reporting that during the trip
no commanded armed bands to DIS
perse but that they refused to do so
and continued to maintain patrols on
tbe roads along the boundary line OF
the two counties. Chesapeakf ana
Ohio railroad trains have been com
mandeered to transport contingents TO
armed camps and telephone wires nave
been cut and steps taken to prevent
re-establishment re of communication, the
governor said his emissary had IN
formed him.
Efforts to communicate by telephone
with Blair and Sharples have been un-
successful for several days.
Adjutant General Charnock's com
panion on the mission, A. c. Porter,
United Mine Workers executive board
member. also returned to Charleston.
He too gave a gloomy account OF con
ditions.
His startling report to c. F. Zee
hey. president of district IL, United
Mine Workers of America, follows:
sWith all males from the ages oil
a to 60 under arms, women and emil
dren fleeing in panic over the line into
Boone county, armed patrols arriving
and departing and every available con
sevance carrying supplies to the pick
et posts in the hills, the Sharples Blair
sector NAV we'll be compared with Bel
pium in the early days of the World
war.
con the northern side of the noun
tain. which serves as a watershed Ia
both Coal and Guyandotte rivers, lies
the camp and main force of the min
ers. Similarly situated on the south
ern side are the Logan county depu
ties and the state police. The miners
have advanced picket lines in the hills
"Should these men clash it would
1raw into battle total of $500 men
Along the tops of the ridge are trenche:
and breastworks of rocks and feIled
trees"
The Kanawah Coal Operators as
sociation statement yesterday Sat the
three men killed in the engagement
near Sharples between state troopers
apd deputy sheriffs and band oi
armed men had been identified "a vii
liam L. Greere Of Hatewsn, and Ceci
Clark and w. NJ Morrison Of Sharples
was borne out by the reports of Ad
intant General Charnoek and Mr.. Por
ter. Clarks father Is said to live a
Catlettsburg, Ny. George May received
slight wound.
According to Mr. Porter, severs
men at Sharples told him their stor
les of the fight. All agreed, he added
None Of the men could say whethe
the troopers and deputies suffered m,
losses. However. they stated that on
campaign and one broad brimmed ha
were picked up near the scene. Gun
and cartridges were found slongsid
the hats Mr.. Porter said the men toll
him.
After the battle Mr. Porter ssi'
bis informants told him. all the min
Frs in the vicinity armed thenrselve
and small boys stood with srTus a
their fathers sides. Patrols that hs
eeen withdrawn from the mountain
lying toward Logan again ver
thrown out.
Magistrate Mitchell Prisoner.
Later a party Of men hunting q cos
,t Hewitt heard firing and began
search. Al a nearby farm house I'd
men told Mr.. Porter. he said, tn
,ezrchers found Magistrate Fults
Mitchell and four others eating din
ter beside txo machine guns. sewers
Hfies and pistols and a large suppl
" ammunition alongside them. tn
uen told Porter. he ADDED. that Magis
rate Mitchell and three 81 his CON
sanions. one his brother and the 9th
rs John Browning and VIII Whu'
re-e shackied With their own hand
nfF< hv the men Who discovered thu
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