The Washington herald., 1921-09-05
Federal Troops Occupa-
ton Quiets Troubled
District.
BOTH SIDES LEAVE
SCENES OF BATTLE
Miners Surrender Arms
To Regulars and Start
For Their Homes.

CHARLESTON. w. Va. Sept. 4.
There is peace again in the coal
fields OF West Virginia.
Federal troops brought It They
have effected a complete occupation.
without molestation. OF the entire
area in which miners and deputies,
the latter aided by State forces.
have been at active war for more
than a week.
Miners are taking the back traits.
The defense army Of Logan County
and her allies. Mcdowell and MIngo
Counties. has left the ridge it de-
Tended for twenty miles up and
down the valley Of the Guyandotte-
Regulars took fits place.
On Way to Homes
! Ten thousand men, arrayed in two
| hostile armies. are laying down
| their arms and returning to their
homes. Six thousand of these. IL is
conservatively estimated. were min
ers.
No regular has fired a shot ana
no regular has been attacked
The miners are returning from
the front through the Coal River
area in special trains. They gather
at the mountain towns where the
detachments of soldiers are en-
camped. and surrender Some Of
them turn in their rifles and revolv-
ers. Then they start home without
Interference. Other miners cross
| the mountains. The disintegratioa
I OF their army is rapid.
1000 Miner. Surrender.
| Army headquarters estimated
( Sunday that 1000 miners had sur
rendered: $50 had turned in rifles.
and a smaller number had given up
small arms. Many miners. IL was
thought. had secreted their rifles.
or had sent them through unguard-
ed mountain trails.
With the siege lifted. the town %
Logan rested. There was no fear
that miners would pour over the
| ridge or force their way through
one OF the passes. II was the first
time there has been security in a
fortnight.
Brig. Gen. Pandholtz is TRYING 70
effect the pacifcation with as little
disturbance as possible. Civ ager-
cies are operating in the coupled
counties, although all stat. 5gacers
are subject TO Federal comr1auG.
Regulars UnmoIestrd.
Federal forces have entirely re-
placed miners and State a. county
forces in the disturbed are" said
Gen. Bandholtz. so far a. KNOW.
no shot has been fired b, 7sbsrsl
troops at anybody. and tho Fsdsrls'
troops have not heen fred or
Miners were glad 10 Sc re SOL
diers and fraternized with Their.
Equally glad were the Logan County
people.
| Detachments Of the Tw. uty-slxth
Infantry took their stations SUNDAY.
Regimental headquarters, under
command OF Col. T. NJ Anderson.
was established here. with a camp
on the edge Of town. The second
battalion was sent to Blair, where
there has been much hghtinE 4
machine gun company and a rife
company went to Logan. Another
rife company went TO Marmet, and
still another to Cabin Creek June
tion.
Only Dozen Deaths Reported
The total number Of regulars is
now 1000. They have established
patrols throughout the disturbed
sections.
When Col c. A. Martin. com
! Ane coal klNeT district.
went with the second battalion 60
Blair Sunday, there was stil shoot
ing in the mountains This died out
as Federal troops took over the
front in Logan. across the ridge.
Afterwards everything was quiet
Efforts are being made TO deter
mine how many men lost their Hives
in the weeks fighting. The number
OF deputies killed is not more than
six. More uncertainty attached TO
casualties among the miners. be-
cause their headquarters, IL they had
one. did not get reports. deaths
reported. about which there is no
question. are fewer than a dozen.
Probably Under Score.
The entire number killed, the
writer believes, was less than a
score. But all sorts Of reports are
in circulation Some Of these. COM
ing from seemingly reliable sources,
tell OF miners having buried their
dead in groups OF fifty. Other re-.
ports are that hundreds lost their
lives. But union headquarters. us
ually well informed. can give the
names OF only half 4 dozen miners
who were killed. and officials say
the number is not greater than this.
Guerilla warfare. with snipins at
long range. accounts for the small
casualty list though IL is considered
remarkable that more did not die.
Vast Quantities of ammunition were
expended.
what wfn FoIIowf
Now that the trouble is over, ALI
West VirginIans are asking what
will happen when the Federal
troops are withdrawn? II is freely
predicted the same conditions will
develop again. This has previously
been the case when there has been
Intervention by Che Federal gov
ernment, followed by withdrawal.
Efforts will be made TO settle the
issues that have kept the State In
turmoil for years This viii be
difficult, for hatred is deeply i'm
planted, and there have been many
deaths Mountain law is an eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Struggle for Uuionination-
Operators insist they will not
consent 10 unionization Of the mins
fields Of Logan. Mingo and McDow-
ell counties. The United Mine
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