New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-23
Estimates of Killed Run
Up to IS, Scores More
Are Wounded and Mine
Property a Total Ruin
Night Ends Riots:
No Troops Called
Witnesses Tell Thrilling
Story of Raid by Moon.
shine Crazed Miners


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MARION, H.. June 22.-Fighting
between union miners and strike.
breakers and guards at the Southern
Illinois Coal Company STRIP niho
near here. that resulted in fourteen
killed and q score wounded yestef-
day, broke out with renewed fury
this morning. II is reported that
the guards and other employees az
the mine. after they had attempted
tc surrender, were herded together
and shot down b. the attacking
union forces.
The total number Of casualties 10
night is not definitely established
At least twenty.nine and probably
forty non-union miners are dead. ard
the total may run 70 seventy-hyo.
Scores have been wounded. The
mining property is in ruins. with
trackage, buildings and hundreds %
thousands Of dollars worth of ma
chnery dynamited about noon amiG
hilarious whoops from the mob or
two thousand union men.
NJ State Troops Called Out \
Late this afternoon the fighting
ceased, soberness was setting IN, and
the miners, worn out by tweniy-four
hours Of battle, sta ked their arms
still within easy reach. Colonel
Samuel n. Munter, representative az
Marion for Adjutant General c. +.
Black, said tonight that sta.e troops
had not been ordered out 10 put
down the disorders, and would not
be unless their presence wa re-
quested by the local authorities. The
situation tonight seemed 10 be well
in hand, with no immediate prospect
of a resumption Of the warfare.
Colonel Hunter said his investigation
indie, ted that there were seventeen
dead in a Hcrrin undertaking establish
ment and seven were still lying on the
field where six were shot down In cold
blood as, presumably, they were being
marched under armed guard 20 iIefrin
from the coal mine upon which they
had struck the white flag of uneondl.
tional surrender Tho seventh was q
union man. no doubt the victim q Wild
firing.
1nrcc wounded were in the hospital
20 Horrn, he said, and a liko number
in the hospital a; Carbonate. One Of
the latter. an ex.soldior. viii die.
Other casualty reports were 70 vide
variance with that received by Colonel
Hunter. the death total boz most in.
stances mounting considerably higher.
Before noon to-diy the correspondent
Lad counted thirteen bgllet-riddlcd
bodies n the timber field two miles
southeast OF nerrln, whore The van
quished workers. already battered and
bleeding. had been herded into a clear
ing like cattle in roundup and shot
in their tracks.
Sobs Softly, Then Dies
Squattcd near the dead. was a four.
tcenth. lie breaLoed, sitting bolt up
right. he surveyed the approaching
newspaper men with unsceing eyes
lie was sobbin2 softly, his clothing
was torn 10 shreds. So h. sat for
few minutes, then he toppled back,
dead
Many union men who witnessed the
massacre. but who we're sickened by
the awful spectacle, talked freely to-
night, seeming thus 70 gain relief for
overwrought nerves. Bot they talkeS
only in the belief that these outsurr.s
would not be reported 20 "heaiquar-
ters." Some Of these were authority
for the charge that the so-called
squads were deliberately run into q
hsld BY their armed captors and then
made the targets Of pot shots.
The battle started yesterday after-
noon when John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers Of America,
wrote that the men working at the
strip mine should be regarded as COM
mon strike breakers. Firing, which
had been intermittent throughout the
night. was resumed heavily az day
break. During the night the attackers
had crept upon the mine and set OF
bomb under the car in which two
guards were doing sentinel duty.
Guards and car were blown 20 atoms.
Pass Word Saves Bernard
This and other incidents OF the night
and day battle we're recounted by one
Of the three mine defenders known 70
have escaped after being disarmed and
lined up 90 ~'tas was 20 prove a death
march. fnis man is Fred Bernard.
thirty-eight years old, Jefferson Hotel,
Chicago. The pass word OF a fraternsi
order Of which three Of his assailants
are members. saved him.
II was engaged" said Bernard, an
overseas veteran. "by the George T.
Bertrand Employment Agency, 56i
Madison Street, as cook on what
was told was q steafnshoyelers' union
Job, reported at the strip mine Tues
day. just twenty-four hours before tho
trouble started.
when | gCt out Of the jub | found
many other men had come under the
same representations which induced me
10 ship out. haven't very clear
idea OF what happened after We were
attacked yesterday afternoon.
III know that inside our barricads OF
heaped up stack there were three
..aeLs an aach ~ which fhars ,vas q