South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-07-18
Officers Scour Country For
Slayers in Big Mine Clash
Four Are Known Dead in
West Virginia Battle -43
Prisoners Are Taken.

WEBLSBURG, W Va, July IL
CBy a. PD-with - prisoners in
custody. three in Wheeling hospitals,
Is in the Ohio county jail there are
% in jail here; with deputy sheriffs
armed with 200 John Doe" war
rants charging murder, scouding the
country as far as the Pennsylvania
border. and with a large force of
state police and deputies guarding
the striking miners tent colony at
Cliftonville where a battle between
sheriff's force and a large crowd
Of men resulted Monday in the
deaths of at least four men and the
Brooke county was tense rate Mon
day night
The fight ragged in'the hills around
the non-union Clinton mine, when il
was attacked by men said to be from
the union field across the line in
Pennsylvania soon after dawn Mon
day.
The known dead are:
Sheriff II H. Duval Wellsburg, Va
Francis Milich. MOnessen. Pa.
- Crook.
An unidentified man.
Watchers at the mine were waiting
for the ruins Of the triple burned
in the attack 10 cool before searching
for the bodies of two men believed
to be buried under the debris
More May BE Dead
Rumor persisted that the bodies
in the morgue by no means repre-
scented the total casualties Of the
fght. but none Of the deputy sheriffs
would confirm reports that numbers
of men had been shot down and
their bodies dragged through the
woods by their companions. Error
in repeated announcements at the
sheriff's office during the day that at
least seven men had been killed and
their bodies brought here were &C
counted for Monday night by an Of
fetal who said that the men now
known 20 be wounded were at first
reported dead
Three wounded men Of the at
lacking force were in hospitals In
Wheeling and others captured by
the deputies in the battle were in
the Ohio county jail not far away.
Nine prisoners. three of whom had
, been shot were confined III the
Wellsburg jail. seven of this num-
Der had been taken into the woods
around the Clifton mine late Mon
day afternoon by state policemen
who, II was reported Monday night.
were continuing the search.
COnstabuIary on Guard
on the other side OF the state
line four miles away. troopers OF
the Pennsylvania state cOnsta bulary
vera on guard operating in con
junction with the West Virginia
forces. They had been sent down
from Washington county, and Il
was expected by the authorities
that they would be reinforced by
- others under command OF MAJ.
Lynn c. Adams OF Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania authorities at
Avilla. the nearest town IN that
state 10 the scene OF the fight and
the place where the mob gathered
before Il began It's march Sunday
night. were arresting suspected per
sons and questioning them. One
man who had sought medical help
az a hospital in Washington, short
IL after noon. was turned over 20
the district attorney and later TAX
en- 20 Avilla
Son Succeeds Father
Thomas II Dual. who was in the
fight with his father. but escaped
unhurt was elected sheriff by the
county court. and. among his first
duties. arranged with W. H Wilkin.
prosecuting attorney. for a special
grand jury 20 investigate the fight
He also conferred with the coroner
for the inquest and then filed
charges OF murder against p men
who he alleged. took part in the
battle. Nearly all OF them. the au-
thorfties said, were from the Cross
Greek section just over the border
in Penn ylvania-
Prosecuting Attorney Wilhn. re-
porting 20 Gov. r G.. Morgan ~
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