The Mena weekly star., 1921-09-08
PEACE RETURNS AS
 TROOPS ARRIVE
Both Factions in West Virginia War Profess to Be Pleased-Miners Lay Down Arms as 2,OOO Regulars
 Take Charge.

Charleston, w. Va, Sept. 3.-Strife- torn West Virginia responded prompt ly to the federal governments sooth- ing treatment today.
 Two thousand regulars, with ma chine guns, airplanes, and gas outfits, moved into the troubled sectors and carried peace with them. They met no resistance and wherever they went quiet and tranquility followed ~4tdour bloodshed.
 The appearance of the regulars was the signal for the miners to begin laying down their arms and peacefully disband. By the time the advance guard of the regular infantry reached the vicinity of Sharples and Madison, in the heart of the fighting area, they found large number of armed min CTS occupying a train they had com mandeered.
 Without the slightest hostile dem onstration, the miners surrendered, giving up their arms and turning the train over to the regular troops in command of Colonel Martin of the 18th Infantry. They had about S5 firearms in their possession. All the men were placed under guard and taken to St. Albans, where they were permitted to go to their homes. The federal military authorities made no attempt to hold them ulder arrest and merely took the names of those who carried arms.
 Four More Deaths Reported.
 Four more deaths, resulting frofn the fighting of yesterday and the day before, were reported today.
 Bodies of two men killed in the fighting on Blair mountain were brought in to Logan. Their identities were not learned. Another man whose name was not revealed, died in a Logan hospital today as a result of wounds received in the fighting. The body of a miner said to be James Roberts was brought to St. Albans from Boone county. Several persons were reported wounded in the fighting yesterday.
 It is next to impossible to obtain any accurate estimate of the number of casualties. Reports are constantly pouring into Charleston of numbers killed, but there will be no opportun- ity of checking up rumors until peace is completely established in all sec tors. One report was to the effect that the miners had buried 30 of their dead at Blair. Sheriff Hill at Madi- son, said he believed the casualties were large, but doubted whether they would run as high as 50.
 Miners Satisfied, They Say.
 Surrender of the miners to the fed eral troops conforms to the promises of their leaders yesterday. They re- fuse emphatically to stop fighting as long as the mine guards, deputy sher- ifs and private detectives remain in the field, but they are equally posi- tive on their assertions that they will not resist the regulars.
 Our men are just as loyal to the United States government as any otf- CT citizens,' said William Petry, vice president of the district branch of the United Mine Workers of America. They have no intention of resisting federal troops. They will surrender to federal troops and give up their fire arms as fast as the troops arrive and take the places of the deputy sheriffs and gunmen."
 It would be difficult to say which faction appeared to be most pleased over he arrival of the regulars. The miners professed to be delighted, be- cause, they declared, they are confi- dent that they will receive fair and unbiased treatment from the federal authorities. The beseiged army of de- lenders at Logan, worn out from service of "A hours a day under con- tinuous fire, was overjoyed when the first of the regulars marched into their beleaguered little town.