Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-26

ready battered and bleeding, had
been herded into a clearing like
cattle in a roundup and shot in their
tracks.
Squatted near this CORY group of
13 was lucky fourteenth. He
breathed, sitting bolt upright. He
surveyed approaching newspaper men
with unseeing eyes. He was Sob
bling softly, his clothing was torn
to shreds and matted in blood. So
he sat for minutes, then he toppled
back dead
Many union men who witnessed
the massacre, but who were sickened
by the awful spectacle, talked freely
last night, seeming thus to gain re-
lief for overweight nerves. But
they talked only in the belief that
these outbursts would not be report
ed to headquarters"
Some of these were authority for
| the charge that the sO-called ''scabs'
were deliberately run into field by
L
the targets Of pot shots.
| The battle that had started We'd
nesday afternoon when John l.. Lew
| is, president of the United Mine
men working at the Strip mines
should be regarded as common strike
| breakers, resulted in IA dead and
missing before sunset.
Firing, which had been intermit-
tent throughout the night, was re-
sumed heavily at daybreak yester-
day morning. During the night the
attackers had crept upon the mine
and set off fuse under the car
| in which two guards were doing
sentinel duty. Guards and car were
blown to atoms.
| This and other incidents of the
might and day battle were recounted
Iby one of the three mine offenders
known to have escaped after being
disarmed and lined up for what was
Ito prove a death march. This man
is Fred Bernard, 3S years old, JEFF
ferson Hotel, Chicago. The pass
| word of fraternal order of which
Three of his assailants are members
| saved him.
/ 81 was engaged" said Bernard
| an overseas veteran, "by the George
II. Bertrand employment agency, as
| told
i steamshovelers union job. | re-
ported at the strip mine Tuesday
i lust "a hours before the troubls
1 started.
when l got out on the JOB
found many other men had come
1 under the same representations
which induced me to ship out.
haven't a very clear idea of what
happened after we were attacked
| Wednesday afternoon.
i II know that inside our barricadt
of heaped up slack, there were three
| tracks on each of which there was
l a line of gondolas. When the shoot
ing started, the mine guards, there
were about 80 of there, l believe
4 wanted me and my kitchen crew OF
| six men, to take up arms.
/ Refused to Take Arms.
But we ducked and crouchet
down in one of the gondolas of the
i second line Bullets struck al
i around us throughout the Afternoon
j and even during the night, but We
never budged.
This morning, the first attach
i was made about o'clock. But thu
i strikers did not get over. the huge
i pile of slack on the particular side
| they had selected. They withdrew
but in less than two hours they
were back with .reinforcements.
about dozen colored men lee
the renewed assault. don't know
i what came over the guards, because
i they had lots of ammunition, rifles
and a machine gun, but someone
4 raised white flag.
Then the enemy, yelling like In
Il dians, swarmed over the top ant
i down 10 us. We were helpless.
4 First we were 'frisket' for on
i weapons, and then lined up outside
the mine. Perhaps some OF oul
linen did not suspect what was il
4 store for them, but | felt 1t was al
over Just as soon as | got "a looi
into the bloodshot eyes Of some o
our captors.
Many of them were reelint
drunk. First they struck us VIII
their fists, and then as they tasted
blood, they started in to hamme
some with the butts OF revolvers
1 was not beaten. Mcdowell, SUI
= porintendent of the mine, who, Grip
Il pied. walked with distinct limp
headed our line. 1t seemed TO mi
everybody took a crack at him."
Bernard then described the spec
tacle of SO men whipped into lin
u by clouts and curses, forced NOR
dead than alive into march between
flanks of armed, raging and moon
} shine-craZed men.
= Two Chicago Tribune and Com
mercial Appeal representatives, driv