The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-18
ATTACK
ON Clifton MINE
S.TOPPE:.D|.BY Rain R
Tent Colony of Striking Min Min
ers Abandoned Early
This Morning

erS ADdnOOneu Edily
This Morning.
wELLSBURG, WA, July 49,.
"a ByS The Associated Press) -
sSmine guard stationed on the hill
Eaboye the Clifton mine, where yes
terday Sheriff H. H. Duvall and
three other men were killed when
s the party was attacked by large
force OF marcners from over the
Pennsylvania line, dashed into
Cljtonyille early today with the re-
ssanother attack Captain White'
the State Constabu-
4 Iary, quickly sent a force into the
hills. but they returned empty
A terrific rain storm broke
out INN ediately after the alarm
was given and Captain White ex-
" oppressed the belief that it had scat
|SHered the marchers. Not shot has
been fired in the village since the
Il battle terminated yesterday.
Acting on orders from SherifI
Tom Duvail, who is filling his dead
Fathers place, the tent colony OIL
81 striking miners and their families
NJ near4 the mine was Abandoned early
".
4 rounds of the tents and notified the.
men and women that they must
move out without delay. They lost
no time in obeying the order, tax
Eng nothing but food with them,
The authorities protested ignor-
ance as to where they had gone.
i Sheriff Duyall said he was deter
mined to break up the colony and
that none of the people who had
been living there would be allowed
to return to the tents.
SS mum Der of foreign women none
s az whom could speak English, came
Il to Wellsburg today from Aveiia'
Pas the mining town across the
i,order where the mob which at
lacked Cliftonville was formed
1 through Interpreters they said they
"a we're searching for male relatives;
who had not been seen since sun
Nav night. 1t is believed lndent1f1-
I; sF.ations OF some of the forty,three
2Srisoners held here and in Wheel-
Sing will be made through these wo-
men.
For time last night, Sheriff Du-
wall believed he had IN CUSTODY tue
man who killed his father. "a PITS
on er who gave his name as George
n Iaryey had identified another prls-
-
j sAyella. who, he said, shot the sher-
For more than three hours Har-
1SsVey and the supposed Belts were
s6cIosely examined byth authorities
aEand 1T was not until O'Clock that
Harvey they say, broke down and
ssconfessed that the other prisoner
iva ssnot Belts.
They then turned their attention
the other man who said he was
steve Timcadi miner of ~Avella'
life declared that he had been com.
speIled to join the march and had
II rs taken no part in the fighting. Cues
ssSs toned as to how he came oy nus
hroken arm, he said that he was
wing in the weeds above the tipple
when he was shot and that he was
5sssnotHeven armed. Deputy sherltfs
sghoweyer, said they recognized him
49, one of the attackers who was
ssStyery active in the shooting at the
Istipple.
i Ne Another missing man was added
70 the two who were believed &C
have gone down in the ruins of the
tipLle when inquiry was made fol
steve Mall, a commissary clerk a
the mine.
Mall was seen during the early
stages Eof the battle. but no one
ing him after the tipple was blown
up.
state Police and more than
score Of deputy sh eriffs worked al
might in the vicinity of Cliftony1lle
rounding up every man who was
] unable to give satisfact Glory &C
count Of his whereabouts Sunday
might and yesterdaymorntns f'orts
three persons had been arrested VI
S5tSto O. clock this morning, ana
telephone message from the mine
said that seven more were on theil
way to Wellsburg.
sheriff Tom Duvall and his depu
Ties expressed their determ1natioI
Ito get to the bottom of the whole
VI nastN. business" as one of them ex
aaSSsasprs96ed it. and with that end II
viewswere securing every village
81: and all the roads between the Ohio
River and the Pennsylvania state
line in the upper part of Brooke
County
Conditions Quiet
HARRISBURG, Pa, July s.
Telephone reports to Governo
Sproul from Maj. Lynn G. Adams
superintendent of the State Polio
now at the Pennsy1vania-Wes
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