Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-09-05
Federal Troops Occupation
QuietS Troubled
District
BOTH SIDES LEAVE
Miners Surrender Arms To Regulars
And Start For Their Homes-What
Will Happen?" Is Asked

Charleston, W. Va, Sept. o.
/, There is peace again in the ccal field
of West Virginia.
Federal troops brought it. The!
have effected complete occupation
without molestat:on of the entirt
area in which miners and deputies
the latter aided by State forces, have
been at active wa- for more than ;
week.
Miners are taking the back trails
The defense army of Logan Count.
and her allies, Mcdowell and Ming.
Counties, has left the ridge it de.
Tended for 20 miles up and down the
valley of the Guy lndotte. Regular;
took its rlace.
Ten thousand men arrayed in two
hostile armies, are laying dowr
their arms and returning to thei
homes. Six thousand of these, it is
conservatively estimated, were min'
ers.
No regular has fired a shot and
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 revol.
vers. Then they start home without
interference. Other miners cross the
mountains. The disintergration OF
their army is rapid.
Army headquarters estimated
Sunday that / 900 miners had sur.
rendered; $50 had turned in rifles
and a smaller number had given ur
small arms. Many miners, it was
thought, had secreted their rifles
or had sent them through unguarded
mountain trails.
With the siege fitted, the town Of
Logan rested. There was no feal
that miners wo..a pour over the
ridge or froce their way through
one of the passes. = was tHc inst
time there has been security n a
fortnight.
Brig. Gen. 8andholtz is trying t.
effect the pacification with as little
disturbance as ncisible. Civil agen;
cies are operating ir the occupied
counties although II the occupied
counties, although ali Stf..e officers
are subject to Federal comm&:.o.
"Ee.,t1al for::, s:ve .tirely rc-
placed miners and State and county
forces in the disturbed area sale
Gen. Bandholtz. $50 f2r as ] know
no shat has bees fired by federal
trc, ps at anybo ", ard .ae Federal
troops hase 10. been fir: on.
Miners were glad to see the SOL
diers and frater1zed with them.
Equally glad were the Logan Count!
people. :,
Detachments CT the Twenty-sixtf
Infantry took their stations Sunday.
Regimental headquarters unde,
command of Col T. NJ. Anderson
was established here, with camp
on the edge of town. the seconc
battalion was sent to Blair, where
there has been riuch fighting. A
machine gun comuany and a rifle
company went to Logan. Another
rifle company went to Marmet, and
still another to Cabin Creek juno
tion.
The total number of. regulars is
now 3 900. They have established
patrols throughout the disturbed
When Col. c.. A. Martin, COM
manding the Coal River district, went
with the second battalion to Blair
Sunday, there was still shooting in
the mountains. This died out as
Federal troops took over the front in
Logan, cross the ridge. Afterwards
everything was quiet.
Efforts are being made to deter
mine how many men lost their llves
in the weeks fighting. The number
of deputies killed is not more, thar
six. More uncertainty attached tc
casualties among the miners be:
cause their headquarters, if they hac
one, did not get reports. Deaths re-
ported, about which there is no Ques.
ton, are fewer than dozen.
The entire number killed the
writer belives. was less than q
score. But all sorts Of reports are
in circulation. Sp,ne Of thesr. COM
ing from seemingly reliable sources
tell of miners having bur'Hd their
dead in groups of fifty. 0the" re.
ports are that huntrc,is l's. theil
lives. But union headquarters, us.
ually we'll informed can give tne
names f only half a doZer M erS
who were killed. and officials say
the number is not ggreater than thi:
Guerilla warfare, with sniping a
long range, accounts for the small
casualty Est though it is conslderet
remarkable that more did not die
Vast quantities of ammunition wer
expended.
Now that the trouble is over, a!
West Virginians are asking wha
will happen when the Fedora
troops are withdrawn? It. is free!!;
predicted the same conditions Wi
delevolp again. This has previousl
been the case when there has bee
intervention by the Federal govern,
ment followed by withdrawal.
Efforts will be made to settle tn